Jesus Christ

The biggest Jesus Christ in the history of Jesus Christ was struck by lightening and burned down to a charred skeleton on Monday. lol... proof that not even g-d liked that.. i mean it's visible from the highway.. kinda skanky





By Monica Hesse and Dan Zak
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
It appears God has sacrificed his only son. Again.

A bolt struck a 62-foot-tall statue of Jesus Christ on Monday outside a church in Monroe, Ohio, and the statue erupted in flames. All that remains is a charred steel skeleton, its spindly arms stretched toward heaven, a gesture that once earned it the nickname “Touchdown Jesus.”

Darlene Bishop, co-pastor of Solid Rock Church, says she’s simply relieved that the lightning hit Jesus and not the home for at-risk women next door.

“I told them, ‘It looks like Jesus took a hit for you last night,’ ” she says.

Act of God? Act of nature?

In 2008, lightning singed the fingers and eyebrows of Christ the Redeemer, the 130-foot Jesus statue that stands over Rio de Janeiro. In 2007, a bolt blasted the 33-foot Jesus statue at Mother Cabrini Shrine in Golden, Colo. One of Jesus’s arms fell off.

The saints and angels are not safe either. The Notre Dame de Chicago’s Virgin Mary burst into flames from her perch atop the church’s dome in 1978; the Engineering News Record covered the construction of a new, lightning-resistant statue with the headline: “Burned once, dome reMaryed.”

A bolt that struck St. Joan of Arc’s statue in New Orleans sliced her brandished staff in half. Statues of the Angel Moroni, which frequently top Mormon churches, have been hit by lightning with such frequency — Moroni’s horn is particularly susceptible — that the Salt Lake Tribune once fretted over their safety in a front-page story.

(Side note: Actor James Caviezel was struck by lightning in 2003 while filming Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ.” He was playing Jesus.)

Believer or not, we can always count on lightning to energize the what-does-it-mean lobes of our brain.

Ancient Romans equated statues being struck by lightning with bad omens, such as chickens beginning to talk and blood raining from the sky. Presumably, the latter two were less-frequent events.

To find some modern-day meaning in Touchdown Jesus, we turned to Pat Robertson, host of “The 700 Club,” who has divined meaning from Hurricane Katrina (abortionists?) and the Haitian earthquake (historic pact with the Devil?). Alas, he declined through a publicist to interpret the significance of the lightning strike.

 

Jfc

 

we know.. theres already a thread about this..

http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=401541&f=51

 

OOPS

 

yea really....life if always ironic in a sense. So...I wonder if they're going to rebuild it.

 

Great picture of Zeus. Very flattering.

 

ha whats left of it is funny lookin :rofl:

 

Im with g*d on this one

 

Looks like the remains of an ancient catapult from a bygone war fought ages ago


Hotwater

 

It was pretty ugly.

 

but what these people will do is.. funnel money into some other adornment ..instead of building shelter, food, medicine, energy funds for the people that need it.. Acts of God come in many forms, golden calf people will never listen, no matter how many bolts of lightning he tosses at them..

 

btw Dhuhr 1:02 est.. Praise ALlaaaaaaaah...

 

That’s because there’s only one true Nazarene




Hotwater

 

I always thought, RIo had the biggest jew king..

 

That statue fire looked as furious as the oil slick fires in the Gulf.



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oh yeah that big one on sugar loaf mountain

 

Looks like he's trying to get away!

 

No, that's Ben Bernanke.

 

The fire spared the Hustler Hollywood sign as well as the adult store across the street.

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