# Messiah born! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 11, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412 "2005-05-11T16:50:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hoodoo\_Ulove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58956e/32.png) [@Hoodoo\_Ulove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoodoo_Ulove)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/1 "2005-05-11T16:50:55Z")
[In Toledo, Ohio.](http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/5305-jesusultrasound.html) I’m told Aaliyah means “to ascend” in Hebrew and Arabic. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/2 "2005-05-11T16:55:57Z")
Poor kid. Just starting life and she already looks like a long haired bearded hippie. Wouldn’t be so bad if she at least looked like the Virgin Mary. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/3 "2005-05-11T17:02:36Z")
And who can this be? Because she is the Kwitzach Haddarach! . . . Or the Sister of the Kwitzach Haddarach! . . . Or . . . something ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/4 "2005-05-11T17:03:44Z")
Oh, it just figures, doesn’t it? Screwed up my clever allusion. “And **how** can this be?” ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/5 "2005-05-11T17:06:05Z")
Of all the crazy religious sightings, I do have to say that the highlighted image does indeed look quite a bit like James Caviezel. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/6 "2005-05-11T17:07:31Z")
A tortilla shell, a highway underpass, a piece of toast, and now an ultrasound. Please, Og, don’t tell me what’s next… ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/7 "2005-05-11T17:14:09Z")
Huh. I’ve heard people say that Jesus is in everybody. In this woman’s case, it seems he was specifically in her uterus. I wonder where he is in other people? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/8 "2005-05-11T17:20:19Z")
That’s the dude on Zig-Zag[sup]TM[/sup] rolling papers! Little dudette is obviously jonesin’ for some herb. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/9 "2005-05-11T17:22:27Z")
That’s Bo Bice! It’s a sign of who’s going to be the next American Idol! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/10 "2005-05-11T17:25:37Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > That’s the dude on Zig-Zag[sup]TM[/sup] rolling papers! Looks like Lenin to me. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/11 "2005-05-11T17:28:05Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Huh. I’ve heard people say that Jesus is in everybody. In this woman’s case, it seems he was specifically in her uterus. Yeah, well, he _was_ hung on a cross. To me it looked like a picture of a young woman and a screaming child. Which one is supposed to be Jesus? ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/12 "2005-05-11T17:30:15Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > A tortilla shell, a highway underpass, a piece of toast, and now an ultrasound. Please, Og, don’t tell me what’s next… I dunno . . . to me the image on the highway underpass looks like a big vagina. Wait . . . does that make ME the Messiah? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/13 "2005-05-11T17:32:18Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Yeah, well, he _was_ hung on a cross. > > To me it looked like a picture of a young woman and a screaming child. Which one is supposed to be Jesus? Both. Jesus is in them, too. Jesus is in you. Jesus is in me. Jesus is in Jesus. Jesus is even in the Jesus that’s in Jesus. Jesus is in everybody. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/14 "2005-05-11T17:37:54Z")
Shit. I saw the fruitcakes hanging around the salt stain Mary in the Fullerton underpass in Chicago a few weeks ago. Now these nutbars are in my hometown, too? Really, people. If these are the most potent physical manifestations your God can provide to reward and buttress your faith, then it’s time to seek a new one, you fawning mooncalves. Pretty pathetic displays for a supposedly omnipotent deity. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/15 "2005-05-11T17:45:06Z")
But… y’see… there can’t be any proof… because proof denies faith, and without faith, God is nothing! A really good and definite miracle would prove that God exists, and therefore He wouldn’t! QED! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/16 "2005-05-11T17:55:27Z")
How long before the photo is for sale on e-bay??? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/17 "2005-05-11T18:00:39Z")
> [@](#): > > A tortilla shell, a highway underpass, a piece of toast, and now an ultrasound. Please, Og, don’t tell me what’s next… You forgot the recent [potato](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13771&item=6164203565&rd=1). ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/18 "2005-05-11T18:08:03Z")
> [@UncleBeer](#): > > You forgot the recent [potato](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13771&item=6164203565&rd=1). She _told_ you not to tell her! [/youngman] ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/19 "2005-05-11T18:13:00Z")
Uh-uh. She told me (or actually, Og) not to say what was _next_. I merely mentioned what’d gone previously. :-p ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412/20 "2005-05-11T18:18:17Z")
\*"The potato had what looked like two eyes!!! Right away, I knew this must be a sign from a higher power". \* This makes perfect sense to me. And the ultrasound image is _definitely_ Jesus, serenely bathed in amniotic fluid. I now Believe, and will shortly be leaving on a mission. Preferably to someplace with a beach. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messiah-born/303412.md?page=2)