Holy something

I had to read this a couple of times to make sure I was reading it right.

The Holy Prepuce (or Holy Foreskin) is one of the various relics purported to be associated with Jesus Christ. Orthodox Christian belief has it that Jesus ascended bodily into Heaven at the end of his earthly life. This would mean that Jesus's foreskin (removed at his circumcision) would be one of the few physical remainders of Jesus left behind on Earth. At various points in history, a number of churches in Europe have claimed to possess it, sometimes concurrently. Various miraculous powers have been ascribed to it.

Words escape me just now.

Comments

[Deb]

I, unfortunately, am not at a loss for words. I'll spare you the majority of them. For some strange reason, certain hymns started going through my mind like... My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus'...foreskin? I better stop there.

[Arthur]

Excuse me? I have trouble understanding why anyone would save something like that in the first place. Bronzed baby shoes; a lock of a baby's hair, even Baby's first tooth, but..... Nah, you're kidding, right?

[Bene Diction]

Found any words yet?

[Brian Mullins]

I don't even want to know how you stumbled onto this piece of trivia...

[Darryl]

Brian: I was Googling "Holy Foreskin" of course. Just kidding. It was on the home page of Wikipediea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) as a feature article. Bene: I think I have a few more words. Of all the so-called relics out there, this one must be the most absurd. I couldn't have made this up if I had tried.

[Kim]

It's amazing how men one way or another always flaunt their manhood...probably a phallic expression of insecurity.

[Niki]

That's just too weird. I think these people must have too much time on their hands to even think up anything like this.

[Liesy]

Oh my. I truly am at a loss for words.

[Arthur]

Well, I was telling the folk at my favourite watering hole (Relax, it's a coffee shop) about this, and a lady there told me she had saved her son's placenta in a bottle of alcohol. He's now thirty-something, and she still has it. So maybe the idea isn't quite so far-fetched after all? Nah, I still can't fathom it.

[Tony]

Are you suggesting then that the one I bought on Ebay is not the genuine thing???????????