I promise this is not as tawdry a question as it might sound!
A Christian group in the UK is apparently taking an arts centre to court for showing statues of Jesus with an erection. They claim these statues have 'no other purpose but to offend Christians and denigrate Christ'. So I'm just wondering whether there are Christians out there who believe Jesus may have had erections, because surely if he did - or rather if it can't be proved he didn't - then the statues could be just as much artistic representations of events in his life as The Last Supper, couldn't they? And if so, doesn't that invalidate the idea that such art has 'no other purpose' than to denigrate Christ? Come to that, can someone explain to me why an erection would be denigrating to him in the first place??
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7593386.stm
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