Pot-bellied, hippy Jesus doing TV promos

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If you want to start a controversy, one good way is to show Jesus Christ as a pot-bellied, whiskey-slugging hippy who weasels his way into a nightclub by turning the bouncers into dwarfs, then turns a couple of ordinary-looking women into busty, half-naked models, and eventually leaves in a stretch Hummer. That’s the plot of a new promo from Plug TV, a youth network in Belgium. The Catholic Church believes the ad “crosses the limits of respectability.

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