Mexico has such cool religious art that this is just offensively ugly. Even if you don't like religion the art is pretty cool. This is ugly on the Touchdown Jesus level of ugly.
Oh boy do I have news. God agreed with you and in 2010 "Touchdown Jesus" was struck by lightning and burned down. They replaced it with a more traditional version. Personally I liked the orgional more.
Its odd and off putting to pray to anything. Most people grow up and stop wishing on stars because it's silly. But some of them keep asking an invisible man for nice things to happen their entire adult life.
As a person utterly devoid of religion, I still used to enjoy visiting the temples of the various faiths, to see what they'd come up with. I think that period might be at an end.
'Dear Lord Baby Jesus, or as our brothers in the South call you: 'Hey-suz'. We thank you so much for this bountiful harvest of Dominos, KFC, and the always delicious Taco Bell. I just want to take time to say thank you for my family: my two beautiful, beautiful, handsome striking sons, Walker and Texas Ranger, or TR as we call him. And, of course, my red hot smokin' wife Carley, who is a stone cold fox, who if you would rate her ass on 100, it would easily be a 94. I also want to thank you for my best friend and teammate, Cal Naughton Jr, who's got my back no matter what...Dear Lord Baby Jesus, we also thank you for my wife's father Chip. We hope that you can use your Baby Jesus powers to heal him and his horrible leg. It smells terrible and the dogs are always botherin' with it. Dear Tiny Infant Jesus...'
Like, I saw the second biggest Buddha statue just in Japan and it was taller than that.
And Buddha is just a fat guy smiling at you like he knows he sold people on his bullshit for thousands of years and is living it, not nearly as deserving of a tall statue as creepy baby jesus