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"?
Idolatry is so huge with that one religion... you know... the one with the rule about graven images and idolatry?
ReplyDelete*You* better obey all their rules, though, or there will be trouble!
Nah, Just stupidity. You have to be stupid to raise anything tall in the flatlands of anywhere without lighting
ReplyDeleteprotection 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!
"Don't taze me, bro!"
ReplyDeleteOr, "Don't taze me, Dad"?
ReplyDeleteEverybody is an art critic, even God.
ReplyDeleteWas Jesus signaling that the touchdown was good?
ReplyDeleteMaybe Jesus was being overruled by the referee in the sky-box?
ReplyDeleteNaw, 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.
ReplyDeleteIt was Thor letting everyone know his opinion of this upstart.
ReplyDeleteSorry? Torchwood Jesus? What?
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