Wow. That last one looks very much like my brother before he cut his hair, shaved his beard and joined the Army to serve his country. Two tours in Vietnam and he always carried a Bible in his go to hell bag. Still does.
He wouldn't particularly care if his look creeped anyone out. Very secure man who can, BTW, discuss master painters and how they've portrayed Christ. He usually recommends a book called "Visual Piety" by David Morgan to anyone interested in learning more about the history of popular Christian images. There's a chapter in it called "The Masculinity of Christ" which I suspect would be apropos reading for anyone seeing a "creep factor" in a picture of Jesus.
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