Last week, the owners of a cafe in California cooked up a pancake that, they believed, looked a lot like Jesus and Glenn Beck spent an entire segment of his radio broadcast today defending the possibility that said pancake really could be a message from God.

Saying that while doesn’t really believe in these sorts of messages, he is also “not willing to reject things that people interpret as a good sign of hope” because people often receive “divinely inspired” signs from God that other people mock as ridiculous.

“I don’t want to question God,” Beck said, because “I really believe we are entering a season of miracles and I’m not going to guess on somebody else’s miracle that is giving them peace.”

Eventually, Beck had a photo of the Shroud of Turin put up on the screen alongside a picture of the Jesus pancake to make the case that the two images looked similar, based mainly on “the shape of the nose” in each image.

Sadly for Beck, his co-hosts were not buying it.

“What are you talking about?” asked an incredulous Stu Burguiere. “It’s not similar at all. You’re looking for things you want to find”: