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Jesus had an erection when crucified.

Talk about the Spear of Longinus

Then after Jesus bakes in the sun for awhile and one of the female NPCs gives Jesus some vinegar to sip from a sea sponge (or was it a rag?), a Roman soldier stabs him in the liver.

IIRC, the stabbing was post mortem, to make sure he's dead

Yeah, Jesus's death definitely was not this. They forced him to carry his cross to the hill while flogging him, then they hammer nails through his wrists and ankles. Do note that when Jesus was initially hoisted on the cross, he and the other two condemned were in decent enough shape to hold a conversation. Then after Jesus bakes in the sun for awhile and one of the female NPCs gives Jesus some vinegar to sip from a sea sponge (or was it a rag?), a Roman soldier stabs him in the liver.

They forced him to carry his cross to the hill while flogging him

I love the irony of using science fact to talk to a congregation that believes the Earth is 6,000 years old.

I love the irony of using science fact to talk to a congregation that believes the Earth is 6,000 years old.

Not all Christians believe that. The a scripture doesn't definitively answer the question of how old the Earth is.

Then again, I don't know where Catholics specifically stand on it. Wherever Potato Man tells them to stand, I guess.

From that article:

In popular culture
* In The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion,[6] art historian and critic Leo Steinberg alleges that a number of Renaissance era artists depicted Jesus Christ with an emphasis on his genitalia including after the crucifixion with a post-mortem erection a motif which Steinberg named ostentatio genitalium. The artwork was suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church for several centuries