The surreal imagery of walking a stairway to heaven and encountering Chuck Norris defecating on one of the steps combines religious symbolism (ascent to heaven) with crude bodily humor (defecation). The implication is that heaven's sanctity is compromised by Chuck Norris's bodily functions, or that he's so irreverent that he treats the metaphysical realm with the same disregard he treats the physical one.

A theologian from Princeton supposedly noted that "this fact represents the internet's tendency to profane the sacred through juxtaposition, using crude humor to assert dominance over traditional religious frameworks."

Internet humor communities classified this as "shock value plus surrealism," the kind of joke that's funnier for how uncomfortable it makes you than for any inherent wit.