The Brick Testament
The Brick Testament is a vivid depiction of many famous (and infamous) Bible stories realized entirely in LEGO bricks. “The Reverend” Brendan Powell Smith builds all the characters and settings out of LEGOs, then photographs them to produce the illustrated stories. All the stories are told using direct quotes from the Bible.
While some churches use The Brick Testament to teach Bible stories in a fun way, many of the depictions are startlingly graphic, and each story carries tags that warn sensitive readers away from nudity, sexual content, violence, and cursing within the stories. As Thomas Paine famously said:
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
The Brick Testament even depicts the two divergent accounts of the death of Judas Iscariot— one of the many glaring contradictions that awoke me to the nature of the Bible as a fallible work of human origin.
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| Did he hang himself? (Matthew 27:3-5) | …or did he fall in a field and split himself open? (Acts 1:15-19) |
Oh, and don’t miss When to Stone Your Children.
June 12th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
Pardon me while I pick my jaw up off the floor. Great creativity here, though I can’t help thinking, “What compels anyone to follow along on such a path?” Truthfully, I have come to find that there are many very good people that have been slowly lulled into their beliefs, unaware of the actual history or core ideals that breathed life into whatever path or relgion it is they follow. It pains me to see so many very wonderful people walking along so blindly. Be it due to familial roots within their church, or a lack thereof. All religions seem to profer the answers to all of life’s questions. This is where the trouble lies. I know I am not the most logical creature alive, but I don’t think there is anyone or any path out there that has “all” the answers. Why chain yourself to any of them exclusively? Take what is of value, and let the rest fall away like so much rubble. Live , learn, love, dream, and grow. These are the things I have found the most value in.
It brings to mind the image of primordial man, emerging from his dwelling and setting eyes on the moon for the first time, being filled with fear and subsequently throwing stones at it. Gads!!! How many generations of mankind actually feared the moon?
November 6th, 2006 at 5:10 am
where does Judas hanged himself?
November 6th, 2006 at 5:38 am
roshel,
Thanks for pointing out the typo. It’s fixed.