I am "The Jesus"
By Nathan Nance
Guest Contributor Nate Nance
The story of the life-size Jesus statue fished from the Rio Grande on Aug 31 has a Christmas ending. That's not a good thing.
Apparently there is no room in the evidence locker for this depiction of Christ on the cross without the cross, so authorities have to get rid of it. City Manager of Houston, Jesus M. Castaneda (the irony is not lost on me), said the city would like to donate it to someone who could share it with the community.
There isn't a great political lesson in this story. I just thought Christmas-time is a funny time to be discussing the fate of a statue of Jesus. And the fact it was fished out of the Rio Grande and has drawn crowds of people to view it like it is an ikon or something seems ironic in a way. It was thrown away and now people are clamoring for it.
Just one of the many wacky things one hears in a newsroom every night.
Nate Nance is a sports/news clerk at the Waco Tribune-Herald. He is also writer/editor of Common Sense a Texas-based Democratic Web log.
Posted by Nathan Nance at December 6, 2004 09:21 PM
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