I was recently in Ventura California where I spent the afternoon photographing in Grant Park ... atop the hills above this coastal town. As I drove into the park there was disclaimer posted by the city .. in effect claiming no responsibility for the cross in the park. It appears that the cross is somehow on private land, a slip of land just 30 feet or so from the western edge of the park and conveniently overlooking the city. Ah, the Constitutionality of it all.
Anyhow, while i was there this guy crucified himself .. or seemed to. He stood before the rough hewn cross, absorbing the rays from Apollo, sometimes stretching his arms, lost in a trance most of the time. He saw nw raking pictures and smiled.
I have never understood the mystery of all this. "What would Jesus do?" Crucify himself? Suffer? Glorify inhumanity of man? Of course, if you are a polytheist or a believer in the Deity as multiple personalities, and accept the Jesus persona as a manifestation of The One Deity, then what Jesus would do is not your concern, all you need to to glory on the light of Jesus' care for you. The image of a loving God transends our objective vision of the reality of the world.
I wonder what sort of person crucified himself that day?
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