That’s because they’re in shock. Too creeped out to make a sound. (I don’t know which is creepier; the PMC or those who make pilgrimage to it. Move over “Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota”…) My favorite part of the writeup is when the reporter loses it and starts ranting about “More Dead Babies!”

100 comments. I should run more pictures of nekkid people on here. — IMonk

Or Precious Moments Chapel “DEAD BABY ANGELS!”; that’s what put it over 100.

If you want to run more nekkid people, IMonk, make sure you don’t chicken out like the Creation Museum did with their Adam & Eve diorama. Give Eve back her boobage!

And to try to stay on topic: no, I don’t find that painting of Adam and Eve offensive in any circumstances I can think of. I’m a bit freaked by the snakey-tailed baby in the tree, though.

“The effect of the work (including a Michelangelo-like painted ceiling) on the assembled crowd is haunting. No babies cry (”They never do,” says our guide.) Adults looking at the cartoons are stock still.”

That was awesome. The photo of all the little kids hugging the maudlin angel-boy was hysterical. Oh man.

I have this friend that I torment with stuff like this. She pretty much hates Christianity because she thinks of it as a really lame social life (she’s right, of course), but deep down, I know that every time I send her something completely and utterly stupid that Christianity has produced, it wears her down just a little bit more.

THANKS FOR THIS SHE’S GOING TO CRY!!

Jesus is going to be her boyfriend again in no time.

Nothing offends me. I’ve had Art Appreciation in college. I’ve done a few paintings that are floating around. As art, its value is substantial. But that wasn’t the question. I considered its value for teaching or enlightening a study class, and so forth, in a church setting. For that purpose, I find it lacking because of the inaccuracies I see when the depiction is compared to scriptures. But I do indeed consider modesty a virtue.

I take it you’re not a Precious Moments fan? With all their pukey-cute baby angels big-eyed in Fluffy Cloud Heaven?

I’ll take My Little Pony over Precious Moments Baby Angels any day. At least MLP doesn’t claim Holy things; they are what they are — cute cartoon mares. If they existed IRL, I’d keep a currycomb ready. And fresh apples.

I will forgive a thousand historical inaccuracies and naked breasts before I will stomach one more grinning cartoon Jesus. — Urban Otter

Then if you value your sanity, stay far, far away from The Precious Moments Chapel. Your head will explode.