Re the Jesus tree link; in most of these others, as rediculous as they are, I can at least see how wishful thinking can make people see a vague semblance of Jesus as traditionally portrayed. But all I can get looking at the "Jesus tree" is Quasimodo, or Chewbacca, or maybe the Cowardly Lion, wrestling with a large weasel.

As a person from a very conservative Christian background, and who still attends church, I think national coverage of this sort of thing is one of the very most blatant examples of the media pandering to the lowest intellectual denominator.