Medieval Christian polemicists caricatured Muslim paradise beliefs with absurd bodily inventions

Evidence

The Liber denudationis even goes so far as to claim that Muslims believe that in the next life each Muslim in paradise will be awarded for his virtue by an elongation of his penis: it will be so long, in fact, that he will need seventy Christians and seventy Jews to carry it before him! — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 820

Categorization

• CANDY: The absurd specificity — seventy Christians and seventy Jews carrying an elongated penis — is a memorable, shareable grotesquerie of medieval religious polemics.
• XREF: Connects to the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article: eroticized bodily anxiety as a weapon in religious-cultural boundary drawing. — connects to: The carnal Paradise was the central symbol of Christian anti-Islam polemic; Medieval Christians enlisted Muslim philosophers as witnesses against the carnal Paradise