I don't know about you, but when I was growing, we had a conch shell Jesus. It was a "TV lamp" (that's what it was called) that set on the TV so you wouldn't go blind (I guess) from watching TV in the dark. This is not a picture of our conch shell Jesus, though; I still have the shell, but Jesus long ago broke off and was lost.
When I got older, I didn't understand why "they" would put Jesus in front of a glowing conch shell as he had no relationship with islands in the Caribbean. Now, I find it sublimely ridiculous. However, until I was a teenager, I found it a thing of great beauty. I also found that there is also an abalone shell Jesus--they weren't around when I was small, and maybe they were considered heresy among the people whom I knew.
(And no, I don't own these--took a picture of the abalone shell in a thrift shop and found the other online.)
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Shells provide exceptional textures and colors. Christianizing the display of shells provides the blessing that excuses displaying material wealth.
racocn8
Level 9
Mar 3, 2022
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You're no fun. Go back to scaring arachnophobes.
Jesus on the half shell?
PondartIncbendog
Level 8
Mar 3, 2022
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Clam up
nice.reminded me. if you're not familiar with the film.....they just told him his mother had died.
hankster
Level 9
Mar 3, 2022
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When I read "abalone shell Jesus", this song/scene is what I immediately thought of.
@FearlessFly premium cinema.
@Gwendolyn2018 Cool Hand Luke is one of my all-time favorites :
First you said Jesus was lost. Then it was abalone (all baloney).
Anymore pearls of wisdom?
NostraDumbass
Level 7
Mar 3, 2022
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I'm surprised Jesus didn't show up three days after he went missing.
Sticks48
Level 9
Mar 3, 2022
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He did but the dinosaurs ate him.
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