Conquer Club

A 62-foot tall Jesus was struck by lightning in Ohio on Monday night, burning to the ground.

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.

Maybe it's a sign from god. Something about the second commandment, perhaps.

BOOM



Roasted.

"62-foot metal-framed structure hit by lightning. Town wonders why it was wrapped in flammable plastic foam."

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.

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.

I had a similar thought.

Me, I prefer to be an iconoclast.

In honesty, I have to admit that the local preacher had a decent interpretation.. he said that Jesus got hit to save his church from a fire

Damn it, Thor got drunk again.

There actually have been a few people taking it as a sign. That's, obviously, stupid.

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.

It is actually sort of surprising that we still appeal to the divine over lightning.

No kidding. They built a large structure, out of fucking steel. Of course it's going to get hit by lightning.

I don't know why this is called "Touchdown Jesus"... many statues of Jesus show him with arms raised looking upwards towards 'heaven'.

The ONE TRUE "Touchdown Jesus" is a painting on the Library at Notre Dame... which can be seen from their football stadium and appears to be standing behind one of the end-zones... thereby calling a touchdown... hence the name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_Dame ... n_Jesus.22

http://store.justinhankins.com/products/touchdown_jesus

All other supposed "Touchdown Jesus" statues or paintings are blaspheme.

I actually live really close to that Jesus! I've seen it in person. It was about the damn most gawky statue I have ever seen in my life. I was really happy when I heard that it was STRUCK BY LIGHTNING AND BURNED TO THE GROUND (It's just so awesome! such true and beautiful divine justice ) but the rumor around here is that they are just going to re-build it.

The Lesson:
When god sends you a sign, ignore it....

Also I like how in that video all the church goers agree that it was a sign, but apparently have NO idea what it could mean

To me the message is clear, God said,

"If you're going to build a statue of me, make sure it doesn't look like shit!"

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.

Why "goddists" and not "theists"?

More wacky British slang?

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.

This was my first thought. Yet, somehow, it does not seem to have occured to the parishoners.
wonder if it was an anti-evolution congregation

Timminz wrote:Maybe it's a sign from god. Something about the second commandment, perhaps.

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!

... Terribly ugly statue, (I live in the area). Doesn't (didn't) even look like the popularly perceived notion of the Anglo-Saxon Jesus.

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I never knew Jesus was a lineman...


Everyone else that plays football knows that you're supposed to make a triangle formation with your hands.

If 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...

If 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...

Duh! agreed

The Bison King wrote:

If 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...

Duh! agreed

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.

And he's not signaling a touchdown. It's a Y from YMCA, cause the people in Ohio think he's gay and loves the village people. God struck it down because it's just not true.

God loves his son. No matter what his sexual preference is.


Well, unless he watches the show "Queer Eye For the Straight Guy"...