Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

If Being Hit By Lightning is an "Act of G-d"

Then how do you suppose that the Christian Taliban explains this one:
A six-story-tall statue of Jesus Christ with his arms raised along a highway was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm Monday night and burned to the ground, police said.

The "King of Kings" statue, one of southwest Ohio's most familiar landmarks, had stood since 2004 at the evangelical Solid Rock Church along Interstate 75 in Monroe, just north of Cincinnati.

The lightning strike set the statue ablaze around 11:15 p.m., Monroe police dispatchers said.

UPDATE: The porn shop across the street and its billboard were not touched. Some folks had nicknamed the statue "Touchdown Jesus" because its arms were upraised. But since the statute was only of the upper torso of Jesus, thus making it appear that he was digging his way out of the ground, should it not have been called "Zombie Jesus"?

10 comments:

Nangleator said...

Idolatry is so huge with that one religion... you know... the one with the rule about graven images and idolatry?

*You* better obey all their rules, though, or there will be trouble!

Eck! said...

Nah, Just stupidity. You have to be stupid to raise anything tall in the flatlands of anywhere without lighting
protection as per Ben Franklin.

Me I'd be for two things..

Canceling insurance coverage and not paying for lack of proper lighting protection.

Cutting power to the building and citing them for not meeting NEC on grounding and bonding. See above on not paying.

The fact that it went 6 years without getting fried was a miracle. That and
no one injured because of the fire and fire response.

Heres your sign!

Eck!

BobG said...

"Don't taze me, bro!"

Comrade Misfit said...

Or, "Don't taze me, Dad"?

montag said...

Everybody is an art critic, even God.

CalvinsMom said...

Was Jesus signaling that the touchdown was good?

Nap Flyer said...

Maybe Jesus was being overruled by the referee in the sky-box?

Dad0Seven said...

Naw, he was warming up for the lightning strike today on the oil clean-up rig out on the Gulf. Sort of a "pick up the pace" kinda thingy.

BobG said...

It was Thor letting everyone know his opinion of this upstart.

Mark said...

Sorry? Torchwood Jesus? What?