Jesus as bling bling! What a concept!
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.
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 . . .
I had to read this several times before I realized the Blessed Virgin was not packing sparkly heat. Although that would be lovely, too.
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
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.
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.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see that in the stores soon.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see that in the stores soon.
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?
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!
Zette, you must obtain a photograph of that clock somehow! And anything even half as surrealistically religious.
My boxing nun puppet can beat your boxing nun puppet!
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.
Let’s not forget Bobblehead Jesus
Yes, I have one. Next to my Mr. T Celebriduck.
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.
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?)
Warning: when it gets bored, late at night, it raises its arms and parts the birdbath 
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.
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.