Saucy Jesus

That trickster Jesus is up to his magical shenanigans again, making a saucy appearance at a Scranton pizzeria:

Ms. Salerno was at [Brownie's Famous Pizzeria, a long-standing eatery on Luzerne Street] and talking with her granddaughter, 23-year-old Jackie Krouchick, while she made a pizza. Her granddaughter is a single mother who she said is struggling through tough times. Ms. Krouchick told her grandmother she worried she was losing her faith.

As Ms. Salerno poured tomato sauce from a white plastic bucket, she urged her granddaughter to keep believing. That is when she saw it, the image of a man with long hair and a beard in the leftover sauce.

...Maryann Marsico, who works at Brownie's, said even an atheist would find it unmistakable.

"My 2-year-old grandson knows who it was. ... He just looked at it and said, 'That's Papa Jesus,' " Ms. Marsico said.

It was not lost on Ms. Marsico that Jesus appeared at Brownie's at the start of Lent, a holy Christian time that also happens to spur pizza sales because observers are not supposed to eat meat on Fridays.

"I will never cheat and eat meat again," she said.

I love the implication that atheists are just too fucking dumb to comprehend the presence of Jesus in a tub of pizza sauce. Even a two-year-old knows Jesus when he sees him!

I will resist the ungenerous urge to respond in kind.

[H/T to Shaker Garbo. Holy folks Gone Wild: Weeping and bleeding and appearing in Cheetos, more Cheetos, pretzels, fire and on pancakes, baking sheets, pizza pans, doggy doors, ice, peanuts, x-rays, turtles, ultrasounds, chocolate, dying plants, sheet metal, trees, more trees, more trees, more trees, more trees, more trees, wardrobes, water stains, plates of pasta, drywall, fish, grilled cheese sandwiches, potato chips, a bathroom door, a banana, and a bruise.]