Jesus descends to Google Earth

Long-term readers will be aware that the Son of God chooses some pretty offbeat places to manifest his supreme being, including Peruvian sand dunes, Ugandan mobile phone masts, Mount Sinai and Romanian wardrobe doors. Well, it appears he's not about to change his simulacrumtastic ways, and here's the latest spot from …

[BongoJoe]

To be Frank

that looks more like the late great Mr. Zappa to me.

Besides, given that no contemporary pictures were made of Jesus then no-one really knows what he looks like. So, he may be walking around us for decades now and on his fifth or sixth Coming and still no-one takes a blind bit of difference.

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes

Given the level of evidence believers require, I daresay this will reinforce their exisiting belief in fairytales-for-adults.

I might go for a shit that looks like Mary now.

[Neil 13]

Not Jesus

...just a long haired Adolf Hitler.

[Anonymous Coward]

my thoughts exactly

Complete with mullet (fittingly, pretty Germanic after all). Do you think Nick Griffin will grow one if he sees this pic? Hope so, then he'll look even more ridiculous, the proto-fascist buffoon!

Ein Volk! Ein Mullet!

[Richard IV]

While we're playing at apophenia

The field to the right has an image of a chap in a soviet-esque winter coat and hat looking towards the more, erm miraculous image, while a large cross shimmers as if in heat haze even further to the right.

How's Golden Palace going to transport this one once the inevitable eBay listing happens?

[zenith]

Or...

Hitler with long hair... Hippy Hitler. Hipler.

[Anonymous Coward]

Or here:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=47.345758,21.113126&spn=0.010992,0.02738&z=16

Hmm aligned Top to North also!

[Anonymous Coward]

ta!

I was hoping for such a link

[Ian Halstead]

Did Leonardo da Vinci ever visit Hungary?

Has elements of his style about it, and he was known for the odd practical joke. Where's Brian Sewell when you need him?

Steve? When are we going to move on to likenesses of Steve Jobs I wonder?

[Code Monkey]

Nah

It's Frank Zappa - possibly off the cover of Apostrophe.

[Mark McNeill]

I can get you a toe, believe me.

They may *look* like Jesus, but they usually turn out to be either Frank Zappa or The Dude. This one's Zappa, you can tell by the nose.

[neil 15]

Sure it's Jesus?

Looks more like the return of our lord, Frank Zappa.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Isn't that?

A mid-70s manifestation of Freddie Mercury.

[AndrueC]

Imposter.

..He seems to be wearing sunglasses. I don't remember them being mentioned in the Bible :)

[ravenviz]

Re: Imposter

Sunglasses were mostly not mentioned because they weren't relevant. But in Jeremiah 4:30, "Why shade your eyes with paint?", 'paint' being a mis-translation of the Hebrew word for 'Ray Ban Aviator'.

Mine's the one with the Sunglass Hut brochure in the pocket.

[TeeCee]

Re: Imposter.

Well, quite obviously Jesus only wore his sunglasses when he wanted to go out without being recognised.........

[TeeCee]

You see Jesus.

I see the new front lawn outside the goldenpalace.com office.

Is it on eBay yet?

[Anonymous Coward]

What are all those white stains on his chin and clothes?

Is this the second coming of the lord?

[Peter Hewitt]

Goldenpalace

I presume our friends from the online casino are already snapping up the farmer's field?

[Anonymous Coward]

It must be him

He's made the river next to him (zoom out and look to the right/east) completely disappear. You can see where the river used to be, but now....it's GONE.

[Just Thinking]

Why Jesus?

The human brain tends to see a face in anything that looks remotely face like. Why does it always have to be Jesus?

This one is clearly singing into a microphone, must surely be Elvis?

[subterfuge]

Jesus revealed himself to me in a paving stone last night.

http://twitpic.com/1ixbhn

[David Adams]

All I can say is....

... if that's Jesus, he's got a cracking pair of top bollocks on him!

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmmmm

Looks more like variations in surface drainage due to differences in soil composition to me.

But yeah, they are probably right, it probably is the Son of God manifesting himself on Earth for the second coming.

[GrumpyJoe]

Pareidolia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia

[Martin Gregorie]

Looks more like an insider photoshop job to me

In fact it looks very much like a photo of Frank Zappa, complete with 'tash and imperial.

[James Hughes 1]

simulacrumtastic

"New Words" magazine's best new word of the year 2010.

[teahot]

Oh, Jesus Christ

Could Lester Haines also post an actual photo of Jesus so we can compare the two? Just to add some small measure of journalistic veracity to the article...

[Anonymous Coward]

People will believe owt!

Sell them an iPad, quick!

[Gav]

He's not Banksie, he's the very son of God.

Don't you just wish sometimes that Jesus would stop messing about with all this tagging of random earthly objects and do something useful? Omnipotent and this is how he wastes his time?

[ravenviz]

@Gav

Oh ye of little fail

[Simon B]

I saw Darth Vader not Jesus!

Did anyone else see Darth Vader?!!

[TeeCee]

@Simon B

Take the Star Wars DVD out of your PC's drive and try again.

[Max_Normal]

Blessed are the bignoses.

And Zombie Bikers.

[Eddy Ito]

Oh, I can't wait

Soon the memristor cat brain computer will be able to scan for GoGEarth (God on Google Earth) faces faster than any bored to tears human being ever could. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/16/memristor_cat/

Then again, cats are probably atheist, we might need a dog brain computer, a shepherd perhaps.

[Nux Vomica]

Bloody sacrilege!

It's clearly Phil Lynott

Whaddyamean "Who's Phil Lynott"?

[Mike Moyle]

I dunno...

Looks more Nicolas Caage, to me...

[Oninoshiko]

boxing jesus.

im just trying to figure out why jesus is boxing....

(I cant be the only one seeing he hands up there ready to strike... although he needs to hold 'em a bit higher)

maybe i need new glasses.

[Nebulo]

Our Father,

Which art in Püspökladány ...

[Anonymous Coward]

All I can say is...

...Jesus seems to have a nice pair of tits...

[Paul Hovnanian]

Jesus, maybe ...

But what's with that face in profile just to the left?

[Winkypop]

Jesus needs better a PR agent

I mean, appearing in fields and on pieces of burnt toast?

With his contacts, he should be able to at least get a front-page cover on Time magazine...or Hello!

[The_Police!]

Just me

I think I was the only one who imagined a iPhone coming down from the heavens on a beam of sunlight.

[Morpho Devilpepper]

Look closer

That is NOT Jesus...it's Jim Morrison.

[Ed Gould]

Looks Like Jesus?

OK who let the crop circle people loose?