"God's Close Up" This American Life

In this episode, an artist gathers models to portray Jesus and other biblical figures. The contradiction is that the models are the most unlikely people to play holy figures. Most of them are opposed to faith. This instills a false sense of reality. When people look at religious paintings, they hold them to a high esteem and in reality, those people are sinners, not Jesus. Is this immoral or just a way we can hold on to something intangible?