You may have heard that Lord Jesus Christ was run over in a crosswalk recently. He says the accident was part of God’s plan.
RNS has tracked him down:
The Belchertown resident who a few years ago began calling himself Lord Jesus Christ gained prominence after he was struck by a car in a crosswalk in Northampton, Mass, on May 4. The story was picked up by several dozen newspapers nationally and internationally, as a well as the major news networks like CNN, ABC, FOX and MSNBC.
“Really? That’s amazing,” said Jesus Christ, who said he was unaware of the attention generated by his accident.
Jesus Christ has no telephone and no access to the Internet at home. To go online, he needs to go to the local library, but since the accident, he has been too banged up to leave his apartment.
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“I’ve always been heavily religious and this is what God told me to,” he said. “He told me to change my name and so I did.” When he is out in public, sometimes he dresses as a woman, depending on his mood. At the time of his accident, he was wearing a skirt. “I represent both men and women, so I dress that way,” he said.
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