Looks more like some random geek with a hard-on.

Guess they'll get more money for it if they can convince the hard-of-thinking that's "Jesus" though.

The first thing I thought I was here was Marge Simpson, sort of off to the left...

somebody sitting naked in a chair with a boner on.

...It was Elvis who carved it. He and Jesus keep playing pranks on each other, getting each other's worshippers into a lather.

Last year about this time, Jesus started delivering pizzas in Tuscaloosa with Elvis' likenesses in the toppings -- thin Elvis in melted cheese, fat, old Elvis in crumbled sausage. There was practically a church revival in the Pizza Hut parking lot as a result.

Jesus was just getting even for the time Elvis started painting tears and stigmata on Big Boy Restaurant statues at various Mississippi truck stops along Interstate 20, causing thirteen religious riots cum traffic pile-ups across the state. He claimed Jesus had it coming, for the time he dressed up in an oily wig, sunglasses, and a rhinestone-studded leisure suit over 300lb of wet bags around his belly, and belted out "Hunka-Hunka Burnin' Love" before an astonished 7-11 night manager while serially pounding twinkies into his face for added verisimilitude.

Now Elvis is evidently screwing around with heavy rock-cutting equipment. Seriously, if these guys don't chill out soon, someone is going to do something stupid, no mistake.

It amuses me that some Christians always seem to find the image of Jesus Christ in everyday objects. The cynic in me might say that if they're trying so hard to find "proof" of their beliefs, then they have no faith to begin with. If you have faith, you don't need to see proof. Incidentally, that's why I don't believe (because I find it very difficult to accept or believe in something without seeing proof).

To me, this image barely looks humanoid. There is an oval shape which could be seen as a head, and lines from that area which might be construed as shoulders. But what in that image is supposed to symbolize Jesus Christ (as opposed to, say, Charles Manson, Richard Stallman, or Napoleon)?

If you ask me, the area to the left of the head/shoulder looks like those foam fingers you see at sporting events.

How much is "hooded stoner with boner" going to fetch?

Or course it has to be a biblical image to get top dollar. And that's not a boner... it is a loaf or fish or something!

...has become yet another conspiracy theory.

Please. It's a bit of rock, when viewed from one orientation, has a feature that looks a little like a head and a pair of shoulders.

No miracles were harmed in the making of this comment. Well, maybe one or two.

You may think that's gneiss, but it's really just a piece of schist.

Looks more like Cinder or Glacius from Killer Instinct.

when rocks containing less silica (SiO2 which can be contained in other minerals it is unlikely to be just silica in rocks other than granite) than granite such as basalt which are already part of the earths crust under go partial melting

these pockets of melt then rise within the crust being less dense than the surrounding and coalesce into a silica rich melt (<40% silica) this then cools very slowly within the crust to form the large crystals found in granite

(if it was erupted by a volcano it would form obsidian (the glassy stuff) or ryolite depending on the speed it cools)

however as he is a stone mason it was probably not even granite as most people who work with stone call anything with a crystal size more than 2mm a granite

Looks like one of those guys in the videos that get sent to Al-Jazeera for broadcasting.

It looks like one of the giant warriors from “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind”.

But let’s face it – in the current market climate, unless it has horns or a pointy beard, any spontaneous human image is going to be marketed as Jesus’s.

Gather ye! gather ye! to hear hear the word of god's only begotten son, Jesus,

" Get me the fuck out of this chunk of stone, I've got cramp in my left foot!"

On an aside why is it whenever I hear the phrase `second coming´I have a mental picture of Angelina Jolie in that cat suit in Tomb Raider II?

Such a relief to see it's not just me that just sees a reclined figure with his willy out!

I'm still going anon though!

His face, he must have a face.

Agreed, its a breast and nipple.

I doubt its Jesus though, he was a carpenter, not a stone mason.

are probably contacting the guy as we speak.

First time I want to rate a story and I can't.

Love the writing style.

Next, they'll be telling us that worm shaped objects found in stones proves that cats evolved from pebbles.

Everybody's looking at stones and morons like these who reckon they've found Jesus in a blob of rock, a tomato or even a garage floor are no worse than those who expect the rest of the world to abandon their faith because they found a seashell on the seashore that looks like a monkey-man's back tooth.

It's Cthulhu

...Gneisse headline.

A lady friend of mine's first reaction on seeing the pic was, "Jesus! Now, that's a big one."

... of the afternoon. It's not an image of Jesus, it's a poor reproduction of Tracy Emin's 'back of a napkin' charity piece entitled "Jesus spends a happy afternoon with Mrs Palmer and her Five Lovely Daughters". The Coming of the Lord can be seen trickling down his left leg in this image.