# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/61 "2003-07-26T22:08:24Z")
Us Catholics are masters at Tacky Religious Merchandise. (Even lapsed-ones, like me!) Gaudy rosary beads. Glow-in-the-dark saint statuettes. Little tiny saint figurines for the dashboard of your car. Prayer cards. Holy Infant of Prague porcelain dolls. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/62 "2003-07-27T01:28:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Orange Skinner \* > \*\ ***Zette** , you must obtain a photograph of that clock somehow! And anything even half as surrealistically religious. \*\* I hear you, but I don’t know how without getting in trouble. All I can think of is to ask permission and just say “I think my mom in NY would love one of these, but I’d like to send her a picture to be sure. Can I just snap a quick photo?” or buy it and return it later after taking a pic. That’s a plan…Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/63 "2003-07-27T03:20:33Z")
About 20 minutes from my parents’ house, in the middle of the boondocks, is a nice little white house with a manicured yard, a flower garden…and a life-sized Jesus in a huge glass gazebo. ---
**Author:** ![fotosbyfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/54ee81/32.png) [@fotosbyfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fotosbyfrank)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/64 "2003-07-27T04:54:05Z")
One of the more popular lawn decorations around here is the up-ended bathtub, half-buried in the front lawn, painted sky-blue inside, and sheltering a statue of the BVM. This is known in my family as “Mary on the half-shell” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/65 "2003-07-27T12:34:59Z")
**Zette** , I’m pretty sure there’s no laws against taking pictures in a store – go in and start snapping, and if they say something, apologize and leave. What are they going to do, open the camera and tear out the film? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/66 "2003-07-27T13:42:34Z")
Oh, I love those–we call 'em “Bathtub Marys” out here. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/67 "2003-07-27T15:58:17Z")
Y’know, seeing as I live in the Bible Belt now, you’d think I’d have seen more amusingly overdone Christian paraphernalia, but the only thing I’ve seen so far is an exterminator downtown whose sign features a huge “Jesus fish” and the words “EXTERMINATOR - IN GOD WE TRUST.” This makes me think that their extermination procedure consists of praying to the Lord to make the ants go away. Thank you, and don’t get me wrong I don’t mean to mess with your religion, but I’d rather go to the guy up the street who trusts in chemicals! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/68 "2003-07-27T18:11:04Z")
We have two Mary statues and a St. Francis. The latter is near the garden where several of our pets are buried, along with our older Mary statue. The other one is on the side of the house-it’s just a granite statue. You can’t really see them unless you’re in my yard-and it just looks like part of the garden. ---
**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 27, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/69 "2003-07-27T21:28:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*Oh, I love those–we call 'em “Bathtub Marys” out here. \*\* _I don’t care if the weather gets hairy, Long as I got my bathtub Mary …_ ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/70 "2003-07-28T05:09:27Z")
Bathtub Mary keep on washin’ Livin’…Livin’…Livin’ in a bathtub! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/71 "2003-07-28T12:12:25Z")
More [Eccu-mental](http://www.mcphee.com/enlightenment/current/M5871.html) fun! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/72 "2003-07-28T12:31:52Z")
I always thought it was an urban legend, but I have seen with my own eyes, hanging on the wall of a house in Toronto, a figurine of Santa Claus On The Cross. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/73 "2003-07-28T12:37:01Z")
And yesterday at the No One Is Illegal demo, I saw a protester with a crucified Mickey Mouse. I laughed my ass off. ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/74 "2003-07-28T14:34:11Z")
> [@](#): > > More Eccu-mental fun! Hey, we owned that game! It was a bit on the pathetic side. I’m sure I can come up with some gloppy Orthodox Jewish kitsch though, especially if I can distance myself a bit and see it as an outsider. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/75 "2003-07-28T14:56:51Z")
[http://www.chapelgifts.com/category.php3?cat=31](http://www.chapelgifts.com/category.php3?cat=31) For anyone who has managed to miss this previously. I can’t work out which I like best, hockey Jesus or judo Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/76 "2003-07-28T18:00:48Z")
Is it just me, or is Ballet Jesus kinda creepy? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/77 "2003-07-28T19:08:38Z")
Yikes, that is creepy. Especially the golf one. _Jesus loves the little children…_ ---
**Author:** ![fotosbyfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/54ee81/32.png) [@fotosbyfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fotosbyfrank)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/78 "2003-07-28T19:29:56Z")
I wrote a video game many years ago (about 1977) called “Battle Stations of the Cross” - you accompanied Jesus to the cruxifiction, and got points by offering him water, carrying his cross for a while, and warding off Pharisees with your light saber ---
**Author:** ![malkabat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@malkabat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkabat)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/79 "2003-07-28T19:49:55Z")
Last Christmas, I got my friend the church organist a [Martin Luther Bobble Head Doll](http://www.oldlutheran.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=OL&Product_Code=800&Category_Code=BH). The best thing about him is the supercilious look on his face as if he’s saying, “Yeah, I got your 95 Theses _riiiiiight here!_” ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610/80 "2003-07-28T19:49:57Z")
**Iteki** , thank you, thank you, thank you! I heard someone describing this website on the radio once, but didn’t hear the URL, and always wanted to check it out for myself. I’m gonna send it to all my irreligious friends. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-rhinestone-christ-with-a-ruby-loincloth/190610.md?page=5)