Plastic Jesus: religious signs, symbols and refuges on the road

[robklurfield]

Chris Crawford's wonderful recent post "Jesus Christ Truck Stop" convinced me that we should have a thread dedicated to the peculiarly American version of the religious roadside attraction.

Visit Chris's thread:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111695

The image from which I hope he'll add here.

My contribution to get us started on this road trip....

http://hemi-sphericalaberration.blogspot.com/2011/10/jesus-bus.html

This has been posted here before, a few years back, but what the heck.

And, if that hasn't put you in the mood, maybe Paul Newman singing "Plastic Jesus" in Cool Hand Luke will do the trick...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHf7TD4qwjk

 

[robklurfield]

 

[Bill58]

Subway Protestant preacher-hellfire & damnation by wrs111445, on Flickr


B&W Scan 2008-4 by wrs111445, on Flickr

Hallelujah church next door to a "no-tell" motel.



Myeong-dong-strange juxtaposition convenience store below a religious statue dealer by wrs111445, on Flickr

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

A carnival in Fort Wayne.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Love the bus, I'm jealous, I've seen photos of busses like that, but never seen one in person!

 

[Keith]

I'm truly fascinated by this phenomenon ... keep them coming!

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

An old house on Wells Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

 

[Bingley]

***** by bingley0522, on Flickr

 

[Rogier]

Hi hope this person did not die of where exactly the property line is....

***** by bingley0522, on Flickr

 

[Sparrow]

 

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[raydm6]

Leica M6 w/30mm f/128 Finney Pinhole Bodycap

 

[Martini]

"Salvation mountain"/"Slab city" Ca.

 

[paulfish4570]

the phenomenon is hardly confined to the u.s. as already has been shown; it stretches across the americas and around the world ...

 

[varjag]

Kaunas by varjagg, on Flickr

 

[tjh]

Somewhere west of Roswell, New Mexico, 2009: (I had a Leica M6 along, but this picture was taken with a Canon P&S.)

 

[Greyscale]

Epiphany? by Greyscale3, on Flickr


R1-03925-0001 by Greyscale3, on Flickr

 

[Michael Da Re]