I am a rare breed — a journalist who is a Christian, and not in that order. I have been in the news business for two decades and have met only a few journalists who are even remotely curious about religion. Rarer still are newsmen who are church-going students of the Bible.

Journalists’ superficial grasp of spiritual matters is evident in the off-the-wall stories they report about people who see images of Jesus or his mother, Mary, in everything from toast to ultrasounds. But I didn’t realize just how common such “Savior sightings” were until I saw this video mash-up:

Wow, where do I begin? With the misguided religious folks who have embraced a depiction of Jesus that isn’t even in the Bible? And who think so little of God that they could imagine He would reveal Himself in such bizarre ways, rather than simply and completely through His Word?

Or should I scold the journalists, who seem to relish these stories because they make Christians look flaky? And who take the Lord’s name in vain as they retell the fantasies?

No one looks good in a video like that.