Reply With Quote
re s constantly breaking their own commandments
Thou shalt not make a graven image of anything that is in heaven.
6-story Jesus statue in Ohio struck by lightning
MONROE, Ohio – 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.
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 the arms were raised, similar to a referee signaling a touchdown. It was made of plastic foam and fiberglass over a steel frame, which is all that remained early Tuesday.
Click to see it before it burned to the ground (just in case the hotlinked picture doesn't work).
The fire spread from the statue to an adjacent amphitheater but was confined to the attic area, and no one was injured, police Chief Mark Neu said. The fire department would release a monetary damage estimate Tuesday, he said.
Travelers on Interstate 75 often were startled to come upon the huge statue by the roadside, but many said America needs more symbols like it. So many people stopped at the church campus that church officials had to build a walkway to accommodate them.
The 4,000-member, nondenominational church was founded by former horse trader Lawrence Bishop and his wife. Bishop said in 2004 he was trying to help people, not impress them, with the statue. He said his wife proposed the Jesus figure as a beacon of hope and salvation and they spent about $250,000 to finance it.
Last edited by RandomGuy; 06-15-2010 at 08:47 AM.
re s constantly breaking their own commandments
Thou shalt not make a graven image of anything that is in heaven.
well that explains it, i thought it was only tony romo
dude, your obsession with making stupid assumptions about religion entertains me with every post you make. keep it up.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. (Exodus 20:4-6)
dude, your obsession with making stupid assumptions about religion entertains me with every post you make. keep it up
Got an e-mail from a friend from Ohio this morning about how "Big Butter Jesus" was no more.
religion! burn mother er burn!
that's like telling the Americans they have to follow every word of the Magna Carta instead of interpreting it.
this issue was resolved long ago. look up "the Great Schism."
god hates s
lolwtfcalftats
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
