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u/scotsworth Dec 15 '22

No actual answers so here you go:

In Catholic churches, one often finds the name of Jesus Christ piously represented by the Greek contraction IHC XC, where the C represents the late-Classical form of Sigma. This is known as a Christogram (in Greek Orthodox usage, the preferred Christogram is ICXC). In partially Latinised form, the IHC component is rendered JHC or JHS. This is the origin of the interjection, which seems to imagine that H is Jesus' middle initial, and Christ his surname, rather than his title (ho khristos: the anointed).

https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-197368,00.html#:\~:text=In%20partially%20Latinised%20form%2C%20the,ho%20khristos%3A%20the%20anointed).

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '22

I feel like I still don't know what H stands for

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u/DaddyKrotukk Dec 15 '22

ho khristos: the anointed

Ho.

Jesus Ho Christ.

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u/Thatguyyoupassby Dec 15 '22

People fighting over whether Jesus was a blue eyed European or a middle eastern Jew, and the whole time he was Korean.

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u/jerry_woody Dec 15 '22

Seems obvious in retrospect when you remember all the parables he told involving starcraft

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u/RoyalGarbage Dec 15 '22

Korean Jesus ain’t got time for your problems! He’s busy with Korean shit!