# Jesus Rhinestone Christ with a Ruby Loincloth! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 24, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610 "2003-07-24T13:12:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/41 "2003-07-26T00:36:19Z")
Jesus as bling bling! What a concept! ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/42 "2003-07-26T00:37:27Z")
One of the cheaper drugstores around here sells chocolate crosses at Easter. With _pink frosting flowers_. I think I would be less disturbed by this if the flowers weren’t in exactly the same places where the nails would be. There is something profoundly wrong about that. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/43 "2003-07-26T00:40:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fretful Porpentine \* > **One of the cheaper drugstores around here sells chocolate crosses at Easter. With _pink frosting flowers_.** Oh! Last time I was in England I saw chocolate Six Wives of Henry VIII! I guess the natural thing would be to bite off Anne Boleyn’s and Catherine Howard’s heads . . . ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/44 "2003-07-26T01:17:17Z")
> [@](#): > > My personal favorites are the gold-plated Mary of Guadalupes and all the little diamond-studded pistols. I had to read this several times before I realized the Blessed Virgin was not packing sparkly heat. Although that would be lovely, too. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/45 "2003-07-26T01:21:44Z")
Hey **Lib** , try blaming the weirdo who made a rhinestone Jesus with a ruby loincloth for making the thing, not **Eve** for having functioning eyes and wanting to share a story. The only thing that makes stuff like this MORE fun is when schmucks get bent out of shape about people enjoying it. :wally ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/46 "2003-07-26T01:44:06Z")
Lib- seems to me you were the only person here that read Eve’s post and saw ridicule and disprespect. And your second post was the very epitimy of disrespect and rudeness. Why drive by the thread and post hurtful things? I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/47 "2003-07-26T02:24:59Z")
I’m not sure I’ve ever done that band name thing but **don’t mind me** ’s **Packing Sparkly Heat** is probably about as fine of an introduction as one could reasonable muster. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/48 "2003-07-26T03:38:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by don’t mind me \* > \*\*I had to read this several times before I realized the Blessed Virgin was not packing sparkly heat. Although that would be lovely, too. \*\* I wouldn’t be surprised to see that in the stores soon. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/49 "2003-07-26T03:44:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by don’t mind me \* > \*\*I had to read this several times before I realized the Blessed Virgin was not packing sparkly heat. Although that would be lovely, too. \*\* I wouldn’t be surprised to see that in the stores soon. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/50 "2003-07-26T03:48:04Z")
The church down the road from us has a plastic Jesus figurine out front, secured against the Carolina storms with Christmas lights against a tree. Every time I go by I sing to myself “Your own…personal…Jesus” or sometimes “Your own…plastic…Jesus” I wish I could bring a camera to the store near me- they have aisles of tacky religious stuff- my favorite is (I swear it) a cucoo clock that is adorned with gold leaves, parrots, and Jesus on a cross. Um…OK? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/51 "2003-07-26T03:55:20Z")
I hate to pile on, but I think **Libertarian** ’s post was out of line. Did he chase her in here because she wrote the OP? If there was disrespect to the Lord on the subway that day, it was coming from the guy wearing the damn thing. Ick. So tacky. Almost as tacky as a velvet Jesus over the TV, right next to Elvis! ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/52 "2003-07-26T04:31:12Z")
**Zette** , you must obtain a photograph of that clock somehow! And anything even half as surrealistically religious. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/53 "2003-07-26T04:49:48Z")
My boxing nun puppet can beat your boxing nun puppet! ---
**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/54 "2003-07-26T04:57:58Z")
First order of business: Eve rocks. Second order of business: I wanted to inject an ecumenical note here by directing your attention to the [Holy Moses lawn ornament.](http://www.lawnornamentsandfountains.com/product.asp?0=209&1=582&3=434) ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/55 "2003-07-26T05:09:33Z")
[Let’s not forget Bobblehead Jesus](http://www.mcphee.com/bigindex/current/10972.html) Yes, I have one. Next to my Mr. T Celebriduck. ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/56 "2003-07-26T10:11:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Satisfying Andy Licious \* > \*\*First order of business: Eve rocks. > > Second order of business: I wanted to inject an ecumenical note here by directing your attention to the [Holy Moses lawn ornament.](http://www.lawnornamentsandfountains.com/product.asp?0=209&1=582&3=434) \*\* Oh my. I just had a frightening mental image of Moses presenting the commandments to an unruly assortment of dwarves, gnomes, and garden butts on some suburban lawn. ---
**Author:** ![fotosbyfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/54ee81/32.png) [@fotosbyfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fotosbyfrank)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/57 "2003-07-26T13:03:14Z")
My daughter goes to a rather progressive Episcopal church (which breaks her father’s heart, since she was raised Catholic, which is another thread entirely). Anyway, one of the Ministers there (an older Black woman!!!) has a “Cabbage-Patch Jesus” doll, which lives with each family in the parish for a week, and in return, they take pictures of what they do with Jesus that week. Said pictures are hung up in the Community Room. I wish I had half as much fun as Jesus does - he goes to the zoo, he goes to the circus, he goes out to dinner (interestingly enough, 12 people at the table in that picture, plus Jesus), he goes to constructions sites (which makes sense, since He WAS a carpenter!). We’re not talking about families with little kids - a lot of the older (well, my parent’s age - in their 70’s) can’t wait for their week with Jesus (although, don’t you think they will be spending eternity with Him soon enough?) ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/58 "2003-07-26T13:10:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Satisfying Andy Licious \* > \*\*Second order of business: I wanted to inject an ecumenical note here by directing your attention to the [Holy Moses lawn ornament.](http://www.lawnornamentsandfountains.com/product.asp?0=209&1=582&3=434) \*\* Warning: when it gets bored, late at night, it raises its arms and parts the birdbath 😛 ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/59 "2003-07-26T14:04:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > . . .and it was dangling hypnotically in front of me all the way to 33rd Street. > > It was about two inches long . . . > > It was Odd. If I had a dime . . . I’ll share this for no reason. The church down the road currently sports a mini billboard thing saying: Use your **Intelligence** , read Gods **Dossier**. They do that a lot. It was hell driving in a straight line during last years World Cup, the sign changed every damn day. Yours, dangling hypnotically. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/60 "2003-07-26T17:14:13Z")
A couple years ago, I was in Mexico City for my cousin’s bar mitzvah. Another cousin, who’s Catholic, my sister (atheist), and I (Jewish), went to go to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. I acquired a couple absolutely wonderful shiny icons of Our Lady in the courtyard. I considered getting a holographic icon, that showed the Pope when you looked at it the right way, but even I am not that tacky. But my cousin is that tacky, and more. He decided he _had_ to have this icon of Our Lady, picked out in shiny sequins, framed in glass, and _electric_. Yup, you could plug it in and she would sparkle. It was fabulous. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610.md?page=4)