Crucifixion is HILARIOUS!

I got off the bus this morning on Michigan Avenue heading to work. Near Michigan and Randolph, there is a Christian bookstore, and a poster in the window caught my eye. It was the typical image of a cross on a lush green hill at dawn. The text, however, I found curious:

I asked Jesus
how much he loves me.
He stretched out his arms
and said, "I love you this much."
And then he died.

I'm not sure what came over me, but I could not stop laughing between reading that copy and arriving at my desk two blocks away and nine stories up. I'm still giggling like a blasphemous schoolgirl.

"And then he died" reads like a punchline to a Bill Hicks joke, or when you add "in bed" to the end of a fortune cookie.

I started hearing distictive voices in my head reading the inscription—Jimmy Stewart, Don Knotts, Christopher Walken, Katherine Hepburn, William Shatner, Aunt Dorothy.

I mentioned reading this to a co-worker, and he said, "What, you haven't heard that before?" I guess the inscription on this poster is common, like that sappy Footprints crap. That Footprints crap, by the way, is also hilarious.

Postscript: In searching for the particular poster I saw, I found this poster. I'm not sure if "Now I Lay Me...Girl" or "Now I Lay Me...Boy" is the most appropriate way to abbreviate the title.