Seeing Jesus in a cheese sandwich

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/06/12/151903/commentary-seeing-jesus-in-a-cheese.html

Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Leonard Pitts Jr. | The Miami Herald

Chyanna Richards saw Jesus in her bathroom.

A few days ago, Richards, who lives near Houston, told a local TV news station she saw the image of Christ in a splotch of green mold on the wall above her tub. “People say, ‘Your house is blessed,’?” Richards said.

Not that there is anything unique about what she saw. To the contrary, the Son of God seems to pop up in some very odd places.

A woman in Port St. Lucie saw Him in a cell phone picture of her TV screen. A woman in Clermont, saw Him in a power meter. A Tampa Bay area man saw Him in a bathroom door. In Sullivan’s Island, S.C., a woman saw Him on the back of a dead stingray. In McLean, Va., a family saw Him in a tree in their front yard. A couple in Anderson County, S.C., saw Him on a Wal-Mart receipt.

The reader will doubtless note that these manifestations seem to concentrate in the South — the Bible Belt. They are not exclusive to that region but presumably, when people in relatively irreligious Philadelphia or Seattle see what appears to be a face on a banana peel, they are more apt to shrug it off.

[lame54]

1. That Zig-Zag guy sure gets around

[sinkingfeeling]

2. And here's the best response to the article....

"Chyanna Richards thinks Jesus looks like an image in the mold of her bathroom wall. Maybe He does. Or maybe He looks like a hungry child having his first meal in two days. Maybe He looks like a sick and indigent woman being cared for by tender hands. Maybe He looks like someone passing the time of day with the old man no one ever visits. Maybe He looks like anonymous charity and activist love."

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[Wounded Bear]

4. Yeah...what if God were one of us?

Just a stranger on a bus,
trying to get back home.

[TheManInTheMac]

3. Maybe Jesus is trying to tell her to clean her damn bathroom once in a while.

How long do you have to let mold grow before it starts to look like a rabbi?

It's called "Lysol," lady. Invest.

[Blue Owl]

5. The Mold Testament hath commanded it

n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

7. DUsy!!

[yellowcanine]

6. My favorite was the Virgin Mary appearing in the cat litter box

a while back. I think it was auctioned on ebay but don't remember any details.

The Virgin Mary seems to need to make these appearances more than Jesus does, for some reason.

[JHB]

11. Different crowds (some overlap)

Bible-belt evangelicals and fundamentalists will see a shape and name it Jesus.
Mary shows up among superstitious Catholics (leaving aside, for this discussion, arguments that all religion is superstition). Arguably, the Mary-shape is easier to reproduce randomly.

[mysuzuki2]

8. It is a truly piss-poor deity

that has to appear in the form of a cheese sandwich, a malformed potato chip or mold on a bathroom wall. I mean really, iof you are god, why would you pull asinine stunts like that?

[Initech]

9. Maybe it was Larry David.

[JHB]

10. Cheezus!

Still, that might actually be a marketing campaign in the making: Jesus-shaped cheese. I'll have to check how brie is made, and if the wheel (or whatever it uses) can be molded into a more Christ-like shape.

[yellowcanine]

13. Alternatively, Cheeses of Nazareth

30 AD was a very good year.

[JHB]

14. FTW

That's an even better one. The only consideration is how much of the potential customer base who would be attracted to "Christian" food marketing would be put off by thinking it sacrilegious or blasphemous or just in bad taste.

(hmmm, slogan: "It's not in bad taste!&quot

[Xyzse]

12. Heh

As long as you have something that looks like two eyes and a nose... Depending on if they think it is male or female, it would be either Jesus or Mary.
It is the "Beard" that is the deciding factor, they both have long hair.