Hang It In The Smithsonian Next To That Picture Of Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D.F.A.

This painting is by Jon McNaughton. You can click here for the interactive version.

Andrew Sullivan:

Check out this interactive picture representing everyone who makes up the USA. Jesus, of course, created the United States and is the author of the Constitution

Andrew Stuttaford at Secular Right:

Best Painting Ever?

Well, perhaps not, but in its splendid (interactive!) way, one of the more entertaining.

Rod Dreher:

A friend sent me a link to this super-kitschy Christian painting, in which Jesus Christ reveals the U.S. Constitution. Note well the sinners in the lower right of the tableau. Roll your cursor over their faces to see them identified: “Liberal News Reporter,” “Supreme Court Justice,” “Mr. Hollywood,” et alia. What, no smart-aleck bloggers?

UPDATE: Erin Manning has the best line: “This painting is proof of the crying need for a wall of separation between Kitsch and State.”

Elitist!

UPDATE.2: A commenter asks how on earth I missed that the Virtuous College Student in the painting is holding a copy of W. Cleon Skousen’s “The 5,000 Year Leap”. Indeed he is! Good grief. For what it’s worth, he’s probably Mormon. Is this kind of thing mainstream in LDS belief? I’m asking seriously.

Clusterflock

The Shortpacked parody version. Karen H. at Common Consent brings the haikus.

And of course, Wonkette has been all over this.

Wonkette:

A bunch of you have sent us a link to this painting by a fellow named Jon McNaughton, depicting the divine event that took place during the hot Philadelphia summer of 1787, when Jeebus flew to America from his ice cave on Pluto to deliver the U.S. Constitution to some brat before an in-studio audience consisting of George Washington, Mister Hollywood, Liberal News Reporter, Satan, and others. “Jon McNaughton would like to set the record straight,” we read.

What’s so essential about this Internet painting is that McNaughton has included, for each character, that thing you commenters love so much: Alt-Text. Descriptive Alt-Text.

More Wonkette, with artwork by David Durrett:

Well how about this! Jacksonville artist David Durrett sends this “real painting” (super-sized) to your Wonkette and writes, “I love Wonkette, and was inspired to do an acrylic response to the Jesus painting yesterday! Hope you like it!!” Yes it is very nice! Maybe Obama can steal this one too, for his house. Also, we’re awarding first-time commenter Shortpacked with an “iPhone” for his take, which was quite a hit yesterday, in the comments. What have the rest of you slobs done lately?

And Wonkette brings more artwork:

UPDATE: McNaughton responds