Posted by Amanda Marcotte January 26, 2008 in Religion, Images, Signs of the Non-Apocalypse
I love religious kitsch, but this piece is truly transcendent. Via PZ—the comments in the caption contest are priceless. My favorite? “For he is the Gloryhole, and the Light.” Come up with your own!
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Somehow, I’m guessing that seeing The Virgin Mary in a sewage-stain on the wall of an overpass is considered (by some) inspiring religious iconography, but a Jesus-Woody light switch is a huge blasphemy.
Is there really that great a difference?…
Oh, BTW…
“Go ahead. Grasp the flaming sword of god’s righteousness and see the light!”
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Is that the Holy Spirit or are you just happy to see me?
Suffer the little children to come..oh, never mnd.
All I can think of is the fundie church located next door to my high school that, for years, had a sign out front proclaiming JESUS IS COMING! My, we had blasphemous fun with that.
No points for originality, but this is immediately what I thought of:
“Thinkin’ of you’s workin’ up my appetite
looking forward to a little afternoon delight.
Rubbin’ sticks and stones together makes the sparks ingite
and the thought of rubbin’ you is getting so exciting.
Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight. Afternoon delight.”
All I can come up with is a Homer Simpsonish:
Turn Jesus on, turn Jesus off! Turn Jesus on, turn Jesus off!
My house definitely needs some Jebus woody light switchs
And there was light…and it was good
“Let Me come unto the li– uh, let the little children come unto Me.”
Going straight to 773#. for that one.
Only an immoral atheist mind would see anything improper in this obviously innocent light fixture. I was totally going to be inspired to pray or something when you all wrecked the mood.
Oh No They Didn’t!
Notice how only the boy kept his hands in his pocket as any self-restraining heterosexual would do.
Or the little boy has caught TEH GAY at the sight and is “playing with his marbles”… and is the girl GRASPING the light switch with her right hand? Oh how evil, wicked, wanton are all women…
If Jesus comes, does he yell, “Oh DAD!!!” ??
re #14 louise:
Oh ewwwwwww. Then again, God is supposed to be the father of everyone, which includes Mary, which he had a baby with. Ew, ew, ew.
I’m Chris Hansen. Please have a seat Jesus.
Oh this is too much.
“Help Jesus Rise Again!”
“Turn Jesus On Kids!”
“Touch it”
“Do unto others…”
“You must love the lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and both hands.”
“And in the future you will see the Son of Man seated [or standing] in the place of Power at God’s right hand and coming on the clouds of heaven”
louise and Mercurial…. Wow. Bad thoughts…
Is it just me, or are the kids out of scale here …
Touched by the light of the lord!
Thy rod and thy staff, they discomfort me.
What’s funny is that some people would argue that this post is blasphemous, but find no problem with the ongoing Hummelization of God.
One of the churches in our area had the slogan “Taste and see the goodness of the lord.”
“What’s funny is that some people would argue that this post is blasphemous, but find no problem with the ongoing Hummelization of God.”
Hummelization is the leading cause for the downfall of civilization…
I’m rather proud of the Gloryhole comment. My inner blasphemer rose to the occasion.
Thy rod, thy staff, they comfort me?
Dorvl, that’s a Catholic reference to the Eucharist.
“put your hand in the pants of the man who stilled the waters….”
Wasn’t that how the hymn went? I’m confused….
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where can I get me one of those?
Hummelization is the leading cause for the downfall of civilization…
We took a picture of a church near legoland … the sign said “Carlsbad Christian Assembly”.
We envisioned a huge box of minifig pieces waiting for that special savior.
I feel like I’m going to hell just for looking at that.
Dorvl, that’s a Catholic reference to the Eucharist.
Psalm 34, actually. But once you start with “Jesus is coming” in your head, they all get dirty from there.
The same church also advertises a “live nativity” every Christmas. I always wondered how they could get the timing down on the birth.
I know it doesn’t have the “holier than thou” irony factor, but I’d just like to point out that many of us pagan-types make dirty visual jokes about our gods on purpose:
http://www.mysticconvergence.com/images/uploads/150dspw.jpg
http://www.mysticconvergence.com/images/uploads/149lspw.jpg
The double switch plate is on our temple room wall.
Matthew 19:14 made me yack.
Look at the kids’ faces: the boy is calmly impressed, though not intimidated, as though he were thinking, “Not bad, but I’ve got a nice obne myself”. The girl is downright mesmerized, staring with undisguised lust.
Have you found Christ? It’s easy, now that his location is in the Megan’s Law list.
I am SO disappointed that no one has yet referenced Madonna’s “Like a Prayer”!
When you call my name, it’s like a little Prayer.
I’m down on my knees, I wanna take you There.
In the midnight hour, I can feel your Power
just like a prayer.
You know I’ll take You there.
Like a child, you whisper softly to me.
You’re In control just like a child, now I’m dancing.
It’s like a dream, no end and no beginning.
You’re here with me, it’s like a dream.
Let the choir sing.
Clap on…
“Let’s try this again — I say ‘the body of Christ’, you say ‘amen’, then you place it on your tongue…”
Have you found Christ? It’s easy, now that his location is in the Megan’s Law list.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
I keep staring at it, and I just can’t see how it can be anything MORE obscene. It’s so obvious it has to be deliberate.
That is hilarious. My neighbor had one of those that was a man in a trench coat flashing. It was hilarious to me when I was growing up.
Jesus loves the little children…
“ON OFF ON OFF!!!! YOU KIDS QUIT JERKING OFF IN THERE!!!”
He is risen!