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TIL about The Many Faces of Jesus, an abandoned film by Jens Jørgen Thorsen, which pornographically depicts Jesus engaged in homosexual and heterosexual sex acts, as well as drunkenness and robbery. Even Queen Elizabeth II made a public comment calling the planned film "obnoxious".

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