Touchdown Jesus destroyed by fire

Post by **aliantha** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 8:47 pm

You could not make this up.

www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-06-15 ... fire_N.htm

I think my favorite part of the story is that the statue was insured. So much for trusting in God, huh?

Post by **Dread Poet Jethro** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:02 pm

Reaching for heaven
Sometimes heaven reaches back
Smites with a vengeance

This graven image
Was a target for lightning
With its outstretched arms

Take a hint, pastor
Do not rebuild this statue
Spend funds on good works

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:12 am

Sheesh, that flaming picture looks like a bat-demon escaping hell or something! Ironic?

The original statue didn't look all the good to me, either. Kinda showy. Now, if it was made of jade...!

Post by **aliantha** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:56 am

Fist and Faith wrote:Sheesh, that flaming picture looks like a bat-demon escaping hell or something! Ironic?

The original statue didn't look all the good to me, either. Kinda showy. Now, if it was made of jade...!

And if a priest with missing hands had come by and....

The whole thing's ironic, if you think about the admonition against "graven idols".

Magickmaker and I were discussing this last night. We're not sure whether it was God on High who finally said, "Okay, that's enough," and sent the zapper down -- or whether Zeus and Odin have been arguing for the past X years over who would get to throw the lightning bolt and just finally decided to do it together.

Post by **SerScot** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:27 pm

I must admit when God decides to take out bad art he does it with a bang (pardon the pun).

Post by **Vraith** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:29 pm

Wait a second: Were this statue and the BP clean-up boat BOTH struck by lightning and burned on the same day?
That has to be a message.

Post by **aliantha** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:31 pm

Vraith wrote:Wait a second: Were this statue and the BP clean-up boat BOTH struck by lightning and burned on the same day?
That has to be a message.

Oooooh....

So what message can we take from this? God doesn't like graven idols *or* BP?

Post by **Cagliostro** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 3:21 pm

Mein Gott! Not Big Butter Jesus!

Post by **aliantha** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 3:40 pm

Cagliostro wrote:Mein Gott! Not Big Butter Jesus!

Do we know anyone in that picture, Cag?

Post by **Cagliostro** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 5:26 pm

I do.

Sshhhhhh....it's members of another forum. It is my wife forum to which Kevin's Watch is my mistress. But to be honest, I've kinda left this wife for my mistress. I spend considerably more time here than I do there, and I'm a mod here and not there, so...I guess...which is the wife and which is the mistress now? But I have met two of the three pictured.

Post by **High Lord Tolkien** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:52 pm

Even God couldn't suffer that horrible looking statue.

Post by **wayfriend** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:24 pm

Gives new meaning to going down in a blaze of Glory.

Gimme a Hallelujah!

Post by **Savor Dam** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:32 pm

As you wish, Wayfriend...

Leonard Cohen wrote:You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Post by **stonemaybe** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:05 pm

can someone post the pic of statue before and during burning? link won't work for me

Post by **Orlion** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:28 pm

wayfriend wrote:Gimme a Hallelujah!

Tell it, Preacher!

Post by **aliantha** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 12:42 am

Try this link, Stone:

news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Lightning-strikes-Jesus-statue-Ohio/ss/events/us/061510lightningjesus#photoViewer=/100615/480/urn_publicid_ap_org6d74f0cb5ee444b38bea5804bdda7833

Oh, and the best line I've read so far:

washingtonpost.com wrote:It appears God has sacrificed his only son. Again.

The whole article is here.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 12:50 am

This is the funniest thing ever!!!!!!!!

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:07 am

Serves 'em right for making it out of fibreglass and foam. Not materials I associated with statues really. Marble, granite, bronze, yes. Fibreglass and foam? Not so much.

--A

Post by **wayfriend** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 7:29 pm

Fist and Faith wrote:This is the funniest thing ever!!!!!!!!

... until you remember that the people in the picture are assuredly going to Hell.

Post by **Savor Dam** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:10 pm

Entirely possible, but not for what they are doing in the picture. If they are friends of Cag and Carla, they assuredly have more compelling trespasses to be shriven than merely posing for that photo!