Years ago, when I wore my hair long, a friend referred to the style as Thor Hair. He didn't say Jesus Hair, perhaps because of my Nordic look. But the subject does have something to do with the gods:

The Error of the Long-haired Jesus

One of the biggest errors Hollywood has made is in their depiction of Jesus while he was teaching here on earth. The error comes because the preachers, priests and theologians have themselves accepted a false type of Jesus that nowhere resembles the true Jesus who is described in the New Testament. The images of Jesus that Christians have in their churches, homes, Bibles, Sunday School or Sabbath School books are those which have the outward features of the chief pagan gods of the heathen world. If the apostles could come back to life and visit our churches, enter our homes, and see our movies about Jesus, they would be aghast at witnessing Jesus being portrayed like the chief gods of the heathen world.

Worth reading in toto, despite some obvious silliness.

So, conservatives back in the '60s, with their funniest and most outrageous line (Jesus, Get a Haircut!) were on to something.

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