"Christ came down with some Pine-Sol".
"That's Jesus Christ come down on earth again, and playing he's an old woman," a miner declared.
Gripped by his treacherous former disciple, Christ looks down, ready to be bundled off by the armoured Roman centurions.
Reassuring as ever, Virgil explains that, when Christ came down to Hell after his crucifixion to rescue a select few, Hell was shaken by an earthquake.
More philosophically, the longtime regent Odessa Johnson observed, "If Jesus Christ came down and raised the tuition, they'd stone his house, too".
In response to the soteriological question Why did Christ come down?, St. Irenaeus, bishop of Lyon, argued that, in order to be the redeemer of humankind, Jesus, who was divine, also had to be human.
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) — The billionaire Donald J. Trump's bid to become a born-again Christian failed over the weekend after Jesus Christ turned down his friend request, campaign officials have acknowledged.
By Andy Borowitz June 27, 2016 NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) — The billionaire Donald J. Trump's bid to become a born-again Christian failed over the weekend after Jesus Christ turned down his friend request, campaign officials have acknowledged.
He wrote a school play in which Christ came down from the Cross but was nailed up again by a group of characters who were obviously modelled on certain local people.
It ends with the striking image of Christ stepping down from the cross, "the sopping bud of his heart in his outstretched hand while the dead // silence that draws out over battlefield and potter's field / is what remains of the truth of it and must be left unsaid".
