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World's tallest Jesus statue completed
Workers in Poland finished erecting the world's tallest statue of Jesus over the weekend, a 170-foot (52-meter) giant that towers over the countryside near Swiebodzin.
"This is the culmination of my life's work as a priest. I felt inspired to fulfill Jesus' will, and today I give thanks to him for allowing me to fulfill his will," Father Zawadzki said after the head was attached by a 700-ton crane, according to a report from the Warsaw Business Journal.
A crane places the head on the world's tallest Jesus statue this weekend in Poland.
The height of the plaster and fiberglass Polish statue surpasses the 40.4-meter (133-foot) Cristo de la Concordia in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and the 39.6-meter (130-foot) Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, according to news reports.
Local officials in the town of 21,000 people hope it will be a tourist attraction.
"More people will visit Swiebodzin and leave their money," Radio Poland quoted Dariusz Bekisz, the mayor of Swiebodzin, as saying.
The cost of the statue was covered by local donations, according to the Krakow Post. It will be officially consecrated on November 21.
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except the fact that he used the false image of Jesus, he was likely middle eastern or black. Do some research and you'll find out that the standard image of Jesus is Cesare Borgia, the son of Pope Alexander VI.
Are you sure this is supposed to represent Jesus??? The face certainly doesn't look very Jewish to me – where are his peyot? And a trimmed beard? Come on folks! Let's make him look realistic!
Wasn't there something in the bible (pronounced bib-elle) about idolatry?
So the people posting who think Christianity is bunk – you'll be working on Thanksgiving and Christmas, right? You certainly won't be doing something so silly as giving thanks for what you have, praying for peace, joy, love and, above all, sharing presents.
Certainly not! That would make God angry!
Mega Jesus and the Statue of Liberty should totally hook up.
First of all, Thanksgiving is not a religious holiday.
Second of all, people who are not religious can celebrate any time they want, for any reason. Christmas is a secular holiday for many, with no religious involvement at all; just family, friends, laughter and relaxation.
Religion is hokum, and is the reason humanity will destroy itself.
Christmas isn't REALLY a christian holiday either. Just saying.
The Christmas you know (the one you celebrate in December with presents, and wreaths and trees, and lights, and all that other good stuff) is a pagan tradition. Jesus Christ wasn't even born in December, it was closer to mid to late September. Ironically, Christians don't seem to know this...
Silly.everyone knows Xmas and Thanksgiving were co-opted from the pagans.........go to college
A- Thanksgiving isn't a religious holiday AND
B- Christmas is a pagan holiday.
Next thing that's going to happing is that you will claim Halloween is Christian too.
When Christmas was a pagan holiday, it was called Winter Solstice....but the pope changed it to Christmas to celebrate Christ's birth, not declaring it the actual date of his birth...but just a day to celebrate it. Halloween is also a Christian name meaning All Hallows Eve or Holy Evening, the night before All Saints Day...also named by the same pope...but I'm not sure what the pagan name was before Halloween. Maybe Fall Pagant or Miss Pagan Universe day or something like that...i'm not sure....Historychannel.com usually knows.
It's sad but honest to wonder if they'll someday use it to hang Jews or Muslims.
The Church has become Rome. Jesus never intended to have gigantic statues of himself put up; I figure he would have preferred the money be spent on helping others. I think this every time I see a giant church or the Pope in all his finery.
You're absolutely correct! The Bible itself says, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I The Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My Commandments" (Exodus 20:4-6 KJV) But that's what's so funny about religion it can delude itself so easily, or a MAN can say that's not canon. Well wasn't the whole bible supposedly orchestrated by god or has that changed now too.
I hope it gets bombed
I FEEL VERY SAD FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO FAITH, GOOD ON YOU POLAND, LAND OF THE BRAVE, AND FAITHFUL ALLIES.
Well maybe not bombed but....how about another lightning strick to show who is boss?
@Dave: Thanks for putting the CAPS LOCK on. Everyone is listening now, and wow, your perspective is so much clearer.
Seeing the Pope's plane crash into the statue would certainly make me laugh loud and long. 😀
The statue doesn't look like Jesus at all. The christian scriptures say he had "hair of thickest Lambs Wool, and skin of darkest Walnut" , so like much of Judea in his era...he was black.
A black Jesus? Don't tell white-America this...
Imagine trying to erect a large Christian statue in a Muslim country like the United States!
Yeah, try something like that here in the US, and gawd will strike it down with his holy lightning.
Google, "touchdown jesus" if you are confused.
Your own... personal... Jesus.
Policy of Truth?
Jesus was not a thin white guy with a flowing mane and beard. These are european portrayals built on an artist's impression somewhere after 1000 A.D. We know based on the alleged origin of mother and the fact that his look is not considered abnormal, and he was dark or olive-skinned, and would have had a short scruffy beard with dark black hair (middle-eastern-greek looking). Thus, statutes of the "false" Jesus, just as paintings, are a bit joke on everyone.
Not only that but he wandered the desert for years, hanging around 12 other dudes...Just doin' stuff.
Imagine Brokeback Mountain but with a bunch of dudes...in the sand.
They should have put up a statue of "Buddy Christ"... too bad for that missed opportunity.
Is it wrong that I'm laughing at this??????
Let's build a bigger one of Mohammed! Oh......wait. Nevermind.
That's the same one that was at the foot of my bed last night!!
Foot of your bed? Been there. What did you do with that?
He looks like a gay person. Nothing against gays.
My crown looks NOTHING like that.