by VorJack
The “King of Kings” statue in front of the Solid Rock Church, on I-75 between Cincinnati and Monroe, Ohio, was struck by lightning and burned down to the frame.
The headlines read, “Jesus destroyed by Act of God.”
In memorial, here’s Heywood Banks tribute to the statue, “Big Butter Jesus.”
Lulz…. “Act of God”….
Maybe God’s an art lover…
Wouldn’t this make him more of a critic?
LOL! I guess the saying that “everyone’s a critic” is true…
:P
It’s not “Between Cincinnati and Monroe”; it’s in Monroe, between Cincinnati and Dayton. Literally 5 minutes from my house.
God’s eyesight is not as good as before, time passes for everybody :-p
BTW, that wouldn’t have happenned if the statue were made of gold.
miracle, miracle!! …oh wait….
hahahahahahahahahahaahahhaahahahahahahah :D
Now you see if that was a big statue of Darwin, the xtians would have said aha you see god destroyed your idol and blah blah blah. Because it’s Jesus they go oh it was just an accident we should have used fireproofing, we’ll rebuild it with stronger materials. You can’t win with them or rather god never loses.
The twisted and burnt framework is a better representation of Christianity, anyway.
How much do you want to bet there are some people in that congregation who really are asking themselves what they did wrong?
Sometimes, irony is a good thing.
In this case, it conducted the electricity.
HAHAHA!!! WIN!
That second photo resembles “stick figure Mohammed” who caused a recent ruckus with collegiate sidewalk chalking.
I guess he was beyond saving.
The statue looks like Jesus is sinking into quicksand.
Or else screaming “Soylent Green!!!!!!!!! It’s people! It’s peeoooopllle!”
In case you haven’t heard, there will be a second coming: http://www.whiotv.com/news/23901668/detail.html
I’m sure “GOD” wants them to spend another $250K on rebuilding a bigger, better, Big Butter Jesus. I mean I’m sure HE wouldn’t want them to help feed the hungry, or house the homeless or anything like that with the money. What really tickled me about this story is that the last time I was there, we drove about 4 minutes down the street to a Hustler store. I wonder if the Hustler store is still standing, pretty sure it is or that would be all over the news. I guess GOD’s aim is a little off.
Yup, the Hustler’s still there. Just drove past it five minutes ago.
I do love me some neon Jesus.
That $250,000 could have sent two or three of my at-risk, inner-city, low-income students to college, thus creating upward mobility for their families and setting a precedent for future generations. It could supply clean water to 2,500 people in Africa. It could have helped fund adoptions for orphans or purchased medicine for the elderly or funded disease research.
As a Christian, I do believe there’s something to talking with people about God, but nothing is accomplished, in my opinion, by cheesy fiberglass statues.
Apparently, God agrees.
And yet the maniacs are proudly and confidently advertising that they will build it right back up. They jokes about the Terminator and “I’ll be back.”
Hey!
Oil spill! Poverty! Emaciated economy!
You hear of any of this?
Starvation in the face of their Greed and Gluttony.
Vanity.
Ignorance.
Hah! I finally beat y’all to a bit of news! I’m getting better! Oh yeah, and wootz Yahweh is back!
It was a pretty silly looking statue. God obviously didn’t care for it.
Now if he could only do something about this one.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1076/947141984_542e2ecff1.jpg
Maybe if we prayed.
Is she facing a vampire?
So he can’t repel fire, and judging from the picture he can’t walk on water either. What superpowers does Jesus have then?
Apparently he can sink 250K into a pond.
Jesus is a Vampire.
Only Crosses and Fire work on him.
…and don’t forget spears/stakes puncturing the heart!
And silver coins.
That’s explain the fascination of his followers with blood.
To me it looked like he was asking for it, literally. Maybe he just got tired of being bifurcated at the hip infront of a church all his life, I know I would
Perhapse the real king of kings got pissed and decided to tear it down. I can see Michael Jackson up with his hooker factory looking down on the false idol as he grabs his crotch and in a firey burst of lightning and judgment he yells “Tee-Hee!” and down from the heavens comes a bolt of sheer terror and stage props directly into the busom of god
so, you mix metal and petroleum products, make it higher than anything around and it becomes…………..voila! a lightning rod
brilliant
go Geebuz
Or the tower of Babel.
Beware the wrath of Zeus, ye worshippers of false idols!
Maybe the ku klux klan did it. Set Jesus on fire instead of the cross, avoid the middleman.
Burned down? ahhh….schucks! Praise Cheezes!
*submitted link* At first I thought irony and then I kept thinking if the “if you build it they will come” quote would apply here. Then I thought of the Bionic man and the whole we can rebuild him… stronger… better…faster… thing.
reminds me of when my good friend was run over by a fire truck. I’ll never forget the image of his intestines spilled on the concrete. Thanks God.
Seeing as an act of God destroyed it, you’d think they’d get the hint: no statue.
Some of these idiots are saying “Jesus” was protecting the church from the lightning by letting the statue be what was hit.
Except that the church would be grounded (as per building codes and regulations put in place by PEOPLE) and therefore would conduct the electricity into the ground and not burn down… but I guess it’s too much to expect religious people to understand that.
yes, it is
Because that’s how you untag photos when you’re the son of God. BOOYEAH.