How goddamn stupid.

Godbless america!

I really have no comment besides this:

What the fuck.

lol jesus has invaded our "space" run for cover!

This is pretty awesome.

It looks like you! The second coming has come, and it's Crecente.

@PaulHunter: Pun intended?

Jesus is so last gen...

Creative to say the least.

Did any one else notice the "Kotaku" that's in between his hands? Or was I just having a "vision?"

black jesus in the house, what cha gonna do

GO AWOL!!!!

@Witzbold: Here in the area its getting anoying, now nuns with speakers walk the street asking the pople to go to the church and then they interrupt you to ask you to go to some cr@p reunion, thats why im probably the only person in a round kilometer that its not catolic...

@Witzbold:

Haha!

wait whats the rabbit saying?? and this right here is CONFIRMATION that jesus was black!

@DarkDragonDave: LOL, too funny.

Wow. That's actually pretty sacrilegious. I imagine if I showed it to some conservative christians, they'd want to raze San Franciso to the ground even more.
I mean, I'm cool with it, but I can see some people getting really, really offended.
@DarkDragonDave: Watermark. That's all. Kotaku puts it on all their pictures that they're legally allowed.

So they are going to have Wii's there on easter or something? I don't see the logical point in using a Mii for an ad.

Amusing, I think. Is the rabbit supposed to be cursing?

@Polywhirl: Ah. I thought I was having a religeous experience. Thanks for clearing that up.

Jesus Christ.

@TOCATL: Sounds like Japan around the christmas holidays with christians with loudspeakers announcing how anyone who doesnt believe will go to hell, you can only be saved by jesus christ, the world is corrupt etc lol.

Jesus welcomes you into the kingdom of heaven with open... sticks?

Assholes.

thank goodness it's not Muhammad

@Zenax: It's trendy and eye catching. Why not use a cultural icon that's insanely popular?

Also, @Polywhirl: It's really not sacreligious at all. I'm a "conservative Christian" and I'm not offended at all. We actually play the Wii in my youth group and I see this as nothing more than clever advertising.

I actually have a Jesus Mii on my Wii. That way, whenever I go into the Everybody Votes channel, I can ask myself "What would Jesus do?"

My Jesus is white, though. And he does not have those terribly Photoshopped garmets, either.

"I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel..." -1Cor9:22-23

I think we should all pray for the guidance of the divine word on this matter:
[kotaku.com] [kotaku.com]
Who in God's name knew God's name was Lewis Camel? I always thought it was Jehovah, Yahweh, Allah or something like that. Shocking.

@Polywhirl:

What's sacrilegious about it? And last I checked, offending people wasn't illegal.

I didnt realist that the second coming of christ was actually Brian Crecente himself, in mii form

I can't tell. Are people really offended by this? And if so, are they offended because they're messing with Jesus or because they're messing with games?

I like it- people are always on the Christian community to have a sense of humor. Give 'em credit, people- many of them aren't the stuffy stereotypes that smart alecks like to label them as, and most probably wouldn't be offended by this bit of churchly fun.

And it's not really sacrilegious- the iconoclast debate is so Byzantine.

Haha. Sneaky bastards. Tomorrow we'll be back to "video games are the devil". Sneaky, sneaky, bastards.

@7ucky: Someone will always be offended, no matter what the subject, no matter what is said. If you say "Puppys are cute," I'm sure you'll get more than a few angry letters from Mothers Against Evil Baby Eating Puppies (MAEBEP) or some other strange activist group.

Jesus looks a tad black there.

@voltron88x:

Great verse, :)

@regnez: Lol, that's a good idea for Everybody Votes.

@voltron88x: Nice. =)

@Witzbold: I've heard stories of that. I just want to know where they come from. I think the whole time I was in Tokyo the only church I saw was by Tokyo Tower. Besides the fact that Christians make up less than a single percent of the population.

Of course I'm sure they can't be as bad as the guys with signs on the street corners where I live. Some weekends it seems like you can't go right off campus, at the University of Arkansas, to get a beer without getting heckled from every direction.

And of course no one could ever be as horrible as this man... We call him "Moses."

+ Watch video

This is of course one of his tamer sermons from a year or so back. If you go to OSU, I'm sure you know him as Preacher Bob!

we sure thats jesus and not a certain kotaku poster?

@noisewar: I never said offending people was illegal. I don't know where you came up with that. Oh wait. I see. I said Kotaku can legally own it, and your twisted head somehow mixed up the message.
And how is that sacrilegious? Obviously, it depicts Jesus in a light-hearted and non-respectful style/situation. I can guarantee the Muslim community would be up in arms if they made a Mohammad Mii and had the caption "Worship Allah with Mii!". And Mohammad is just a prophet. In some sects of Christianity, Jesus IS God.

@MantisDragon: Damn that must suck.

The true question is: what would Jesus play?

@Polywhirl: It's not sacreligious dude. Jesus was a man who had fun and danced and drank wine. There is nothing wrong with some cool advertising that makes people look at Christians and think of church differently.

echoing the rest of the choir, i see no cars being burned or people beaten outside of my house due to this mii-jesus. say what you will about christianity, but at least its followers have developed a sense of humor over the years.

ahhaahah crescente

Cute

That really is cute.

@MysteryMeat: Who does Jesus choose in SSB? You'd have to go with Kid Icarus.

@MantisDragon: I expect that song to be the next Singstar dlc.
I've learned to take crazies pretty well. As long as they stay out of politics.

I think it's clever. The Jesus I made looks better though.

@Final: But Icarus is from Greek mythology. I think Link would probably be Jesus' best pick.

The real star of this show is the pissed off bunny.

say what you will about christianity, but at least its followers have developed a sense of humor over the years.

Yeah, that Catholic priest who last week was convicted of war crimes was a real hoot.
Say what you like about Christians, but they have a a great way of completely ignoring the genocide carried out by their own.

@Majorasblaze likes to dance dance dance yeah:
Growing up and living in Israel, Jesus probably looked pretty dark. Definitely not pasty white like me. It's interesting how in various cultures the religious paintings reflect Jesus with that culture's own skin color, and rarely middle-eastern like he was.

@Erwin: In all actuality the man has become more of a side show attraction than an annoyance. I've been at the University of Arkansas on and off for five years, and I swear he started visiting the campus way before that. With the exception of Freshman most students have learned to blow him off, or laugh. Of course, there are those funs days when the people with scooters drive around him, honk their horns, and point.

Haha, good to see a sense of humor. Again, I know too many people that would view this as sacreligious instead of pure awesome.

@Cruithne: Keep in mind that while people have done plenty of stupid crap over the years in the name of God, that doesn't mean that every Christian endorses that or is even happy about that. Some of us would like to follow God without everyone hanging other peoples' actions over our heads while we do it, thanks.

It lbelieve the bunny is confused as to why Crecente's Mii is dressed like Jesus.

@Polywhirl: I'm extremely conservative and I'm Catholic, and I think it's amusing in a good way. Sacriligious? It's just a rendering of Jesus with a joke. Not like paintings of him are sacriligous, nor do Catholics lack a sense of humor.

@Cruithne: Christians are the devil, aren't they? We're all bound by our religion, but we're still a community of parts. I dont' know about the church owning up to what it's priests etc do but, you can't hold me responsible for owning up to someone elses screw up.

Anyway, I think it's cute that they do this, and show that not all Christians let zeal run their minds.

We better watch out or china is going to start using this as a precident for piracy and bootlegging of all sorts.

why do kotaku forum folk say mean things about christians?

yea... penis... just breaking the tension.

lol that's just great! There's nothing sacrilegeous about it, because it's clearly not meant to disrespect.

great job church. i created a white AND black jesus the november 2006.