Here, via an inventors’ site, is an image of the design to which official United States Patent D367147 has been granted:
It’s apparently a design for pieces of Christian art that use Christ himself as the cross on which, um, Christ is crucified.
That’s a genuinely inventive theological idea, of course. It’s also a bad one. Very bad. Very, very bad.
[Rating: -143 out of 100]
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