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Maybe it's a sign from god. Something about the second commandment, perhaps.The sculpture, 62 feet tall and 40 feet wide at the base, showed Jesus from the torso up and was nicknamed Touchdown Jesus because of the way his arms were raised, as though reaching out to catch a football. It was made of plastic foam and fiberglass over a steel frame, which is all that remained early Tuesday.
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I had a similar thought.jonesthecurl wrote:Now if that'd been a statue of an atheist giving the finger to the heavens, the goddists would've been all over this story.
It is actually sort of surprising that we still appeal to the divine over lightning.http://slacktivist.typepad.com/ wrote:"This cannot be a coincidence," one member of the congregation said in that news report. She meant it had to be an act of God. Lightning destroyed the statue, but in her mind that means God used lightning to destroy the statue. When moth and rust doth corrupt and thieves break in and steal we seem content to lay the blame, appropriately, on moth and rust and thieves. But for some reason when lightning strikes, we assume God hurled that lightning, just like Zeus.
) but the rumor around here is that they are just going to re-build it.
Why "goddists" and not "theists"?jonesthecurl wrote:Now if that'd been a statue of an atheist giving the finger to the heavens, the goddists would've been all over this story.
natty_dread wrote:Do ponies have sex?
(proud member of the Occasionally Wrongly Banned)Army of GOD wrote:the term heterosexual is offensive. I prefer to be called "normal"
This was my first thought. Yet, somehow, it does not seem to have occured to the parishoners.jonesthecurl wrote:Now if that'd been a statue of an atheist giving the finger to the heavens, the goddists would've been all over this story.
If I was God, that would be exactly my reasoning for striking a giant flammable statue with lightning. When are you pagan-Christians going to learn? GOD HATES STYROFOAM!Timminz wrote:Maybe it's a sign from god. Something about the second commandment, perhaps.
Army of GOD wrote:I joined this game because it's so similar to Call of Duty.
Duh! agreedIf only the $250,000 had been used to help the poor, as Jesus taught, rather than being used to create a useless statue of how someone imagines He might have looked...
Oh shit don't even get me started. If the Church actually believed what it preached they would liquidate their assets, live as Jesus lived, and help people. Instead of worship on Sundays, the congregation would go mow peoples lawns and help people. They would prove they are good people by their actions, not their self-righteous attitudes.The Bison King wrote:Duh! agreedIf only the $250,000 had been used to help the poor, as Jesus taught, rather than being used to create a useless statue of how someone imagines He might have looked...
