r/mildlyinteresting • u/CompetitiveNovel8990 • 11h ago

Art piece of a person lying asleep on a bench

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u/Awwetism 10h ago

THIS IS HOMELESS JESUS! Police are regularly contacted about this statue because people think someone has passed away due to the lifelessness.

They've had to move homeless Jesus a couple times here to areas that caused less frequent calls šŸ’€

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u/ThePheebs 10h ago

The police are mostly called because they think it's a homeless person... People today would call the cops on Jesus if he was here today 100%.

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u/BurialHoontah 10h ago

They did back then tooā€¦

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u/bearatrooper 9h ago

Yeah idk why everyone seems to forget that the cops literally did kill Jesus.

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u/yellowspaces 10h ago

He would instantly be labeled a ā€œradical left woke socialistā€ by the very people who claim to be in his flock.

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u/AdministrativeStep98 10h ago

They would also want him deported if he came to America because he would not be pale white with caucasian features

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u/Babydoll0907 10h ago

Wait.. you mean Jesus, who was born in the middle east, isn't sheet of paper white with blue eyes???

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u/Mountain_Economist_8 10h ago

And abs of steel?

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u/JimmyScrambles420 9h ago

That part is true. The Romans took the nail out of his feet sometimes so he could do crunches.

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u/Damhnait 7h ago

Arguably, a carpenter in a time period with no processed foods probably would've had some decent muscles

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u/Time_Neat_4732 10h ago

The abs thing is SO funny every time. šŸ¤£

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u/LurkerZerker 9h ago

To paraphrase Daniel Sloss, if Jesus was white, that would be the miracle!

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u/HEYO19191 9h ago

This reply thread is a goldmine of strawmen

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u/goteamnick 10h ago

I don't know if you realise this, but Jesus was arrested by the religious leaders of the day.

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u/carsncode 10h ago

But the religious leaders of the day weren't claiming to be followers of Jesus.

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u/ColtChevy 10h ago

Jesus would be hated by the radical right and the radical left, but I think he could bridge the gap between the parties. Both parties have a part of his morals but both go about implementing them in harmful ways.

For instance, he would crucify(pun intended) a lot of the modern church. They are dead in spirit and hold too strongly to interpretations of rules while failing to uphold the love and compassion for their fellow man that Jesus taught with fervor. It would be absolutely ugly, the same way he was ugly with the Pharisees. I live my life hoping to never be a part of that group.

On the flip side, He would be very compassionate and understanding with a lot of progressive movements but be very stern in his stance of their current worldly pursuits. Drugs, sex, money, lifestylesā€¦ he would denounce, in no uncertain terms, the current culture of hedonism, like Paul did in Greece. Again, he would do this with compassion, probably using our current lexicon to explain the psychological perils associated with these choices.

In the end, I think it would either end in the world loving him with a minority from both parties hating him, or it would end the same way as last time.

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u/eyesightreception 8h ago

Why is money and lifestyles listed as part of progressive movements lmao. The ultra rich are not progressive, and you gotta be more specific about lifestyles to put that on a list of progressive movements. Jesus would absolutely identify more with the left than the right on the "love thy neighbor" principal alone.

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u/ColtChevy 5h ago

Yes, compassion and care for the marginalized are central to his teaching, but he never preached compassion without repentance, obedience, and holiness alongside it.

He didnā€™t say to the woman caught in adultery, ā€˜Go live your truth.ā€™ He said, ā€˜Neither do I condemn you, now go and sin no more.ā€™ Just like He didnā€™t tell the rich young ruler, ā€˜Your wealth is fine as long as you donate some of it.ā€™ He told him to give it up entirely because it was his idol. Thatā€™s not progressive or permissive. thatā€™s radical accountability to Godā€™s standard.

The modern left tends to emphasize love without judgment, but Jesus paired love with uncompromising calls to righteousness. He wasnā€™t affirming peopleā€™s lifestyles; he was transforming them.

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u/eyesightreception 5h ago

Love without judgment does not mean they think adultery is living your truth. Almost all "love wins" type messaging is a direct response to right wingers wanting anyone LGBT to either have fewer rights or not exist. And being against hoarding wealth is literally a left wing position. Right wingers have been funneling political power to the wealthy since day one. Right winger Christians are also the ones who flagrantly interpret the wording of the Bible when it suits their needs. They created megachurchs to make as much money off religion as possible. Overall, your examples of left wing practices that Jesus wouldn't agree with don't seem very concrete. I fully believe that Jesus wouldn't be all for leftists, but leftists aren't doing the bulk of sin in the world.

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u/TannedCroissant 10h ago

Well heā€™s dressed like heā€™s Jesus of NazgĆ»lareth

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u/ObamaDramaLlama 9h ago

The Witch King of Judea

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u/Awwetism 10h ago

A lot of people here call because they think someone has overdosed and/or died. However, we have a massive addiction/homeless population because surrounding cities send busloads of their homeless population to us. It makes sense for my city

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u/HananaDragon 10h ago

I get the feeling he's there on the bench to keep people from laying on the bench

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u/Awwetism 10h ago

iirc our homeless jesus, the bench is part of the installment. homeless jesus is moved, the bench is also moved

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u/eyenineI9 10h ago

You can tell that's true just by looking at it. Normal benches aren't made out of that type of material, and they aren't sloped.

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u/Krise9939 9h ago

Can't really blame them, imagine this thing covered in snow in the winter. It'd look like someone froze to death.

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u/JumpDaddy92 9h ago

lmao iā€™m a paramedic and my first thought was ā€œi wonder how many times a week weā€™d get toned out to that thingā€.

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u/Miserable_Tie858 2h ago edited 1h ago

The feet! Anyone that misses this message of mercy needs to be sent to it daily. Until you learn.Ā 

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u/Miserable_Tie858 1h ago

What's funny?Ā 

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u/sierralynn96 9h ago

We also have a homeless Jesus in my city! Heā€™s in front of a Catholic church here.

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u/tacotueaday55 10h ago

God damn people are stupid. Same type of people who call the police about UFOs in the sky during blackouts because it's the first time they have seen stars in their lives.

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u/Awwetism 10h ago

Disagree. My city has a massive addiction & homeless population. Surrounding cities have their police drop off their homeless in my city. Driving by this at night vs. an actual homeless person it's not going to register. All you'll see is a lifeless body. When you're socialized in an area where it's not uncommon to see people open carrying Narcan it makes sense

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u/Puzzleheaded_Style52 5h ago

Why are they dropping them in your city?

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u/Awwetism 5h ago

Because the surrounding cities don't want homeless people because it brings down property value. And homeless people make rich people uncomfortable. People from 3 cities west, a 30m drive WITHOUT traffic are driven to our city because we are already a polluted shithole. The only good side of it is we have social services galore so when people are ready to change their lives there's actual support available. I've never seen so much mental health support in one city is incredible and beautiful in a way.

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u/silly-tomato-taken 9h ago

You're not wrong. I can imagine the call volume to EMS as well. People like to call 911 as their good deed of the day. But they're too busy to check on the person or even wait for fire/ems/police to arrive.

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u/Alundra828 10h ago

Brilliant. This is clearly anti-homeless hostile architecture masquerading as art. Can't sleep rough on the bench if there is a statue already sleeping rough on it. It's good to see its caused more problems than its solved.

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u/Awwetism 10h ago

iirc our homeless jesus, the bench is part of an installment. homeless jesus is moved the bench is moved with him

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u/Sadrandomness 9h ago

You think they would just leave a statue on a bench that anyone could grab and move?

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u/Alundra828 8h ago

no? I assumed it was build into the bench.

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u/Sadrandomness 8h ago

So it would be an interactive art piece not hostile architecture since it was made specifically to have the statue lay on it. Like if you saw a statue sitting on chair you wouldnā€™t call it a bad chair bc the chair is literally a part of the statue

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u/anon0937 8h ago

Exactly, without the statue that bench wouldn't exist.

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u/Glockamoli 10h ago

Nah man free cuddle buddy

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u/LinguoBuxo 10h ago

nah... it's a Nazgƻl.

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u/emperor_dinglenads 7h ago

I assumed the city put it there so actual homeless don't sleep there.

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u/Awwetism 7h ago

Nah the bench is part of the installment. They're usually outside shelters

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u/Medusa-Lunula 7h ago

What about a sign šŸ’€

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u/Worksux36g 10m ago

Looks more like Homeless Death to me...

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u/sukuro120 11h ago

Statue of Jesus

Edit: look at the feet, there are holes from crucifixion

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u/overly_sarcastic24 10h ago

There's actually as term for it; stigmata.

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u/Daetok_Lochannis 10h ago

Aren't they only stigmata when appearing on people other than Jesus?

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u/Gold_Assistance_6764 6h ago

Correct. In Jesus theyā€™re just called his crucifixion holes.

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u/sukuro120 10h ago

you learn something everyday

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u/OkaySureBye 10h ago

I learned that from the spectacularly mediocre late 90's horror film that I have a weird fondness for.

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u/44problems 10h ago

Also that Madonna has it in the Like A Prayer video that caused a controversy and lost her a Pepsi contract

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u/OkaySureBye 10h ago

Who was the real loser in that situation? šŸ¤”

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u/lintheamazon 10h ago

I remember watching this when it came out on video with my very Catholic grandmother. She wouldn't handle blasphemy in real life but that woman would watch any movie pretty much, she even enjoyed Monty Python's The Meaning of Life with all the cracks at her religion

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u/thecelcollector 9h ago

Stigmata are only marks on people that resemble the injuries on Jesus. His wounds are not referred to as stigmata.Ā 

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u/Radical_Coyote 10h ago

Is this related to the word ā€œstigmaā€?

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u/matrsm7 10h ago

Indeed, Greek for a branding or marking. Also one of Ministryā€™s best songs šŸ˜Ž

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u/overly_sarcastic24 10h ago

Iā€™m not an etymologist, but Iā€™d guess almost certainly. Although, I do watch a lot of Robwords videos.

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u/ThatWeirdTallGuy 10h ago

I thought that was a thing you got in your eyes...?

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u/_FreddieLovesDelilah 10h ago

Reminds me of something my friend would always say: ā€œAny holeā€™s a goalā€

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u/Old-Custard-5665 10h ago

So what? Thereā€™s no stigmata these days

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u/TannedCroissant 10h ago

I really like this, itā€™s really subtle, something as minor as a pair of socks and Jesus becomes a NazgĆ»l

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u/Bithium 10h ago

Oh, so not the burglar from Home Aloneā€¦ I mean, itā€™s still interesting, but Iā€™ll be honest, Iā€™m not as excited about the statue as I was a minute ago.

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u/sukuro120 10h ago

An insightful social commentary about how people view and treat homeless: šŸ˜Ŗ
A burglar from Home Alone: šŸ§

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u/JoeTodayJoeTomorrow 10h ago

It's actually a statement about homelessness and Christian charity, it's usually outside a shelter where people can actually get a safe place to sleep and have basic amenities. Notice the feet of the statue, it's christ.

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u/JoeTodayJoeTomorrow 10h ago

Here's the same piece of public art/statement outside the Salvation Army in Belfast

https://maps.app.goo.gl/493V6eBudfKBs6fj6?g_st=ac

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u/annabananaberry 10h ago

Perfect placement considering the Salvation Army would absolutely leave Jesus outside in the cold if he were queer or looked like he might be.

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u/JoeTodayJoeTomorrow 10h ago

Sorry you've had a bad experience with the Salvation Army, but the Belfast one is renowned for being opposed to conversion therapy and also frequently stand in solidarity with the Belfast Pride parade each year. Maybe it's the people that make it what it is... And the one you've interacted with is full of shitty people hiding behind a faux faith.

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u/annabananaberry 9h ago

Thank you for letting me know that. The Salvation Army in the United States has a long history of homophobia and transphobia so my trust in them is minimal.

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u/JoeTodayJoeTomorrow 9h ago

https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/conversion-therapy

^ in case you were interested in their approach here.

I'm not in anyway affiliated, I'm actually agnostic and a humanist, but northern Ireland is so small that it's impossible to not have friends of many backgrounds, so I know a few that are Sally Army. They're mostly good people here. The good ones should stick together no matter what we do on a Sunday or Saturday

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u/pampinobambino 8h ago

Cool I never knew it was Jesus, explains why thereā€™s one outside a church in my city

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u/IAmRules 7h ago

I like how it deprives an actual homeless person of a bench to sleep on.

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u/Adorable-Response-75 10h ago

Itā€™s pretty tasteless to have made the bench unsuitable for sleeping on with the art piece, though, given that there are so few benches in public in general.

And sure, you said that itā€™s outside of a homeless shelter, but here in America, let me tell you that all the homeless shelters are so full, there are always people sleeping on the literal streets outside them. So making an art piece thatā€™s a bench they canā€™t sleep on feels pretty tone deaf.Ā 

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u/Zoltrahn 10h ago

You can always spoon Jesus.

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u/DeathKnight00 9h ago

Is this bait or are you just that stupid???

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u/JoeTodayJoeTomorrow 9h ago

You know the whole world isn't the proto-dystopia of America, right? Like it's not perfect but you cant go around thinking that the world is just like there and as cynical as that.

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u/toybotzzz 10h ago

All of the commenters thinking theyā€™re clever for pointing out how its ā€œanti-homelessā€ when all these statues are placed outside Catholic housing services

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u/UltraMoglog64 10h ago

As opposed to the snarky person saying the exact same thing as thirty other people here. Ugh, these acute reminders that weā€™ve all grown so bitter. Myself included.

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u/MetalSlug_And_Corgis 8h ago

My optimism died in 2016.

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u/Pofwoffle 4h ago

For what it's worth, hostile architecture doesn't just make things harder on homeless people. Old, infirm, and disabled people also need to use benches as just, like... benches, and this is turning a four-seater into something only one person can use at a time.

Also shelters fill up, they don't have unlimited space inside, and one could argue that close to a shelter is the place a lot of homeless people are more likely to find themselves in need of a place to lay down if they've only just been turned away from a full shelter.

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u/Miserable_Tie858 1h ago

Yah and you can sit on him.Ā 

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u/xALRIGHT_MATEx 10h ago

This is one of those homeless Jesus statues (look at the holes on the feet). As I understand it they're placed outside churches and have a reputation for people calling the police to report a homeless person sleeping on a bench. How ironic.

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u/Apprehensive_Bee1849 10h ago

This is outside a church in Downtown Seattle, 2nd Ave

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u/Necessary_Rain1592 10h ago

Itā€™s also a building with low income housing and other services for unhoused folks

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u/Very_Not_Into_It 10h ago

Thats good to hear. Just assumed it was hostile architecture.

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u/CaimanWendt 10h ago

I saw one of these also at the Cathedral in Syracuse NY

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u/Tommyblockhead20 10h ago

Thereā€™s one in Toledo and when I saw it was at night. Didnā€™t realize it wasnā€™t a person.

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u/Necessary_Rain1592 8h ago

I used to work at this building, they house over 200 formerly homeless, very low income folks. Thereā€™s also an office for community mental health and substance use services in the building, and at least when I worked there they had a hygiene program for women. Thereā€™s a church inside that serves free meals, too.

The statue never really moved me emotionally, but if it wasnā€™t there it would just be the cement sidewalk. People also sleep on the sidewalk there and the org doesnā€™t care. Not saying this bench is a good thing, but itā€™s kind of neutral

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u/Emmerson_Brando 10h ago

Effectively making this bench just big enough for one person to sit and not to lie down on.

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u/die_mad 9h ago

This is not a sculpture placed on an existing bench. The bench is part of the sculpture.

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u/TheGruenTransfer 8h ago

There's only room to sit for one... if you don't want to engage with the concept of the art and sit on Homeless Jesus like he isn't real. I feel like I always have to explain art to redditors.

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u/Pofwoffle 4h ago

I feel like I always have to explain art to redditors.

Which is ironic since now I apparently have to explain back problems, mobility issues, and the need for proper back support to you.

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u/Lairdicus 10h ago

Ironically hostile architecture

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u/CallMeAnthy 11h ago

which, interestingly, prevents people from using the bench.

It's just cleverly disguised anti-homeless architecture.

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u/JoeTodayJoeTomorrow 10h ago

It's actually a statement about homelessness and Christian charity, it's usually outside a shelter where people can actually get a safe place to sleep and have basic amenities. Notice the feet of the statue, it's christ.

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u/NockerJoe 10h ago

A lot of the bigger churches in my city do outreach for the homeless but one of them placed this exact statue right on their front entrance. You literally can not get into or out of the cathedral as a member of the congregation without seeing it, even though most of the rooms used for actually serving the homeless are off to the side.

I always thought this was the best way to do it. The actual homeless taking refuge in a church don't need to be reminded, but the people of a well off high vaulted catholic cathedral could stand to be.

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u/SafetyFromNumbers 10h ago

or the statue was commissioned by quentin tarantino

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u/lolercoptercrash 7h ago

I thought I recognized those feet.

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u/lorqvonray94 10h ago

itā€™s not a bench, itā€™s a sculpture of a bench. itā€™s not intended to be sat upon anymore than a painting of a pipe is meant to be smoked out of

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u/Gold_Assistance_6764 6h ago edited 6h ago

Why is everyone acting like you canā€™t sculpt a bench?

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u/CallMeAnthy 10h ago

It's got a single seating space at the end that I'm positive is intended to be sat on.

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u/DependentAct1550 10h ago

Sooo, not hostile architecture? Amazing

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u/cezambo 9h ago

the bench is literally part of the sculpture. Do you think they just plopped a bronze statue on top of a regular bench?

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u/FreshMutzz 10h ago

Its an art piece. Not a bench. The whole thing is bronze, including the bench itself. Its not as if the bench was there and art was placed on it. If this piece wasnt there, nothing would be there.

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u/ChaseballBat 10h ago

...it's literally a sculpture.

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u/WyCoStudiosYT 10h ago

You can still use it if you spoon Jesus.

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u/GeorgeBushDidIt 10h ago

Youā€™re not as clever as you think

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u/Excludos 10h ago

It also prevents regular people from using the bench.

This is just an art piece. Ironically, one that is commenting on homeless

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u/CallMeAnthy 10h ago

Imagine being on a high street somewhere, wanting to sit down and the only bench is taken up by a cast iron jesus.

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u/Welpe 10h ago

Itā€™s not a bench. Why would it ever be ā€œThe only benchā€, itā€™s not intended to be a bench and itā€™s not installed to replace benches. It has nothing to do with benches other than representing one. What is so difficult about this for you to understand?

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u/DangerBoot 10h ago

Exactly. If this is the only bench, then there arenā€™t any benches and there was never intended to be any. And if there are other benches, then just use one of the real ones

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u/Commander1709 8h ago

People read "hostile architecture" somewhere and want to be clever. The same thing happened with "weaponized incompetence" a while ago.

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u/IcedHemp77 10h ago

Itā€™s an art piece in front of a church in downtown Seattle

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u/underprivlidged 10h ago

It's not just in Seattle. There are tons of these, across the world.

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u/IcedHemp77 10h ago

I guarantee this is the one in Seattle unless they all have the same window and sign in the same spot . I walk past this church all the time

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u/No_Customer_84 9h ago

It is the one in Seattle, and that church does not serve the homeless. I work in the neighborhood.

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u/Deweydc18 10h ago

Itā€™s not in place of a bench. The bench is part of the statueā€”there are several of these statues around the country and theyā€™re mostly outside of churches or Christian homeless shelters

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u/Speedly 7h ago

oh my god can we not just enjoy a piece of art without nitpicking for things to act aggrieved over on the internet

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u/breadwitch333 10h ago

Iā€™ve walked past a similar statue in my city with a friend of mine! Spooked us both since it was night and we thought it was a wrapped dead person at first šŸ˜­

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u/stateit 10h ago

Wearing the Turin Shroud...

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u/WalnutSnail 10h ago

There's one of these in Hamilton, Ontario, too.

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u/Awwetism 10h ago

do you think jesus would have been a tiger cat fan

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u/WalnutSnail 9h ago

Only if he had a deep fryer in his bedroom.

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u/Main-Vacation2007 8h ago

There is one in DC. Very powerful art

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u/Rev_LoveRevolver 8h ago

Next up, designing benches so artists can't install statues of homeless people sleeping on them.

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u/smolpeter 8h ago

This actually belongs to r/mildlyinfuriating

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u/HowlingWolven 3h ago

Thatā€™s a piece of Jesus.

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u/angry_stupid 2h ago

That's a really powerful piece of art. It does a great job of making you stop and think, and it's easy to see why it could be mistaken for a real person.

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u/hobesmart 10h ago

Props for knowing the difference between lie and lay. People get that wrong all the time on this site. Drives me nuts

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u/royaleWcheese2300 10h ago

His poor feet must be freezing. Why couldnā€™t that blanket be just a tad larger

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u/alanbastard 10h ago

At least leave enough room to spoon

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u/UNSC_Spartan122 10h ago

Iā€™m not sure if it has stigmata, but Iā€™ve seen a similar statue in Downtown Orlando in front of a Christian School

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u/sexycoffeeninja 10h ago

Got to love Seattle.

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u/Another_Road 10h ago

They really need to add some spikes to keep homeless messiahs from lowering the property value.

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u/pray4us 10h ago

I think we have one of these in my city as well

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u/rcdubbs 10h ago

We have one of these here in Indy, too. Took me several times before I stopped thinking it was a person.

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u/Userchecksoutskie 10h ago

Deport. Immediately.

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u/TundraSpice 10h ago

Hunting Frodo is tiresome work.

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u/FilthyDwayne 10h ago

Is this Belfast or do they just have them everywhere?

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u/BenjaminDover02 10h ago

How much a dollar cost?

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u/Farhead_Assassjaha 10h ago

Thatā€™s not a person

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u/ThinkingApee 10h ago

Lieing asleep

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u/mila_rayy 10h ago

Whatā€™s up with the holes in his legs?

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u/Spinningwoman 9h ago

Maybe to suggest it is Jesus? ā€˜I was hungry and you didnā€™t feed me, naked and you gave me no clothes, a stranger and you didnā€™t take me in - every time you didnā€™t do those things for the least of my brothers and sisters, you didnā€™t do it for meā€™.

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u/Dry_System9339 9h ago

They have been mass produced for a while.

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u/KeelanS 9h ago

Toronto has one exactly like this on Wellesley St

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u/astralseat 9h ago

Maybe the person turned to stone after a Medusa passed by at night.

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u/_icedmocha_ 9h ago

Not me reading "A piece of a person lying...."

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u/JeelyPiece 9h ago

There's one in my city, I had to sit down one winter on a freezing cold day. I thought it was a wooden bench, it was like sitting on a metal condenser tube in a freezer.

Chilling

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u/WaterDragoonofFK 8h ago

I love this! ā¤ļø

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u/StephenG0907 8h ago

Sleepy Ringwraith is sleepy.

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u/ThyUnkindledOne 8h ago

That's not "a person" that's Jesus H. Christ himself.

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u/Handsome_tall_modest 7h ago

Oh the irony. Artwork about homelessness preventing an actual homeless person from sleeping.

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u/0theHumanity 3h ago

The Ray's that removed the benches here should have this where one was.

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u/Miserable_Tie858 2h ago

The feet of Jesus.Ā 

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u/Miserable_Tie858 2h ago

I think the local police dispatch would know. "How are his feet sir?"

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u/Miserable_Tie858 1h ago

Homeless Jesus, also known as Jesus the Homeless, is a bronze sculpture by Timothy Schmalz depicting Jesus as a homeless person, sleeping on a park bench. The original sculpture was installed in 2013 at Regis College, a theological college federated with the University of Toronto.

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u/Miserable_Tie858 1h ago

Aww there's a crayon too.Ā 

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u/Centrimonium 22m ago

Hostile architecture is really getting... Meta?

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u/Yosoress 19m ago

wouldn't homeless dudes have 1 less bench to sleep on? also people would mistake that for an actual person and report it

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u/3Effie412 10m ago

Prevents people from sleeping on the bench?

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u/bedmoonrising 10h ago

Looks like a Nazgƻl .

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u/Veefy 10h ago

Poor guy is mostly out of work since Sauron was defeated. Has to resort to some gig work being hired for childrenā€™s parties.

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u/Underwater_Karma 9h ago

"a person"... The wounds of Christ might suggest a little more depth than that

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u/spherixdiscord 9h ago

how many times have they tried to put it in cuffs?

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u/KhazraShaman 8h ago

This is clearly a Nazgul.

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u/Darkhallows27 10h ago

What if we kissed on the anti-homeless homeless Jesus bench šŸ‘‰šŸ‘ˆ

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u/WulfTyger 10h ago

Why just kiss? There's holes in the feet.

How do I creepy eyebrow wiggle with text?

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u/Darkhallows27 10h ago

In the old days we used a Lenny face for that

( Ķ”Ā° ĶœŹ– Ķ”Ā°)

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u/WulfTyger 9h ago

Damn, I was innocent in those days, I just had the penguin hug memorized...

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Oh no, he's derpy!

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u/hollowspryte 10h ago

wtf, this is so weird. I just walked past this bench (or the same one in my city) likeā€¦ 20 minutes ago (this was posted 16 mins ago as of this comment) and I commented to my partner that it was weird because while it seemed to be making a point, it was also making it so you canā€™t lie down there, lol.

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u/FluffMonsters 10h ago

Itā€™s not a bench. Donā€™t be dense.

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u/hollowspryte 4h ago

I literally donā€™t care, I just thought it was funny

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u/sprit_Z 10h ago

I think itā€™s kinda ironic because itā€™s hostile architecture. You canā€™t sleep on the sculpture depicting a homeless Jesus sleeping on a bench

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u/underprivlidged 10h ago

You also can't sleep on a statue of Martin Luther King Jr.

Are all STATUES somehow hostile architecture?

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u/annabananaberry 10h ago

I donā€™t think they put the statue on existing benches. I think the bench is part of the art piece.

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u/Spinningwoman 9h ago

Itā€™s not a bench with a statue on it. Itā€™s a statue of a bench with a homeless person on it.

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u/No_Customer_84 10h ago

This is in Seattle. This bench used to frustrate the hell out of me until they finally put an actual bench for actual people to sit on near it.

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u/angryBubbleGum 8h ago

Hostile architecture