We do not worship the statues of Jesus, Mary, St. Joseph and the saints: they are not idols. In the eighth and ninth centuries there was a great debate over the use of icons in the Eastern Church.

Now even Jesus Christ is an AI influencer on TikTok, not unlike Meta's "creepy" Kendall Jenner clone. ... is a “thinly veiled threat of damnation” for those who don’t spread the good news.

Then there’s Ray Allen, a.k.a. Jesus Shuttlesworth from the 1998 Spike Lee film He Got Game. Even LeBron James has had the Jesus label levied his way, albeit in a more veiled form.

If they do not, computer-generated Jesus issues a thinly veiled threat of damnation by quoting Matthew 3:10, which has John the Baptist saying, “Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees ...

Jesus has been able to drift deep, and out to the wings at the Gunners. For his first goal against Leicester, Jesus picked up the ball on the left-hand side, before playing some intricate football ...