Bottom line to this story: if your church has $700K to spend on a big plastic jesus and an amphitheater, its called masturbation, not "doing god's work". :angel:
(http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100615/capt.d1d33865e14d42b8b5fb0de9a60b4d93-b8bd107213aa4e03a8cbb7d90584d889-0.jpg?x=213&y=148&xc=2&yc=1&wc=409&hc=284&q=85&sig=nA.HLT8ABcQu98ZRQYu7xQ--)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_lightning_strikes_jesus_statue (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_lightning_strikes_jesus_statue)
MONROE, Ohio – A six-story statue of Jesus Christ was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, leaving only a blackened steel skeleton and pieces of foam that were scooped up by curious onlookers Tuesday.
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. Monday, Monroe police dispatchers said.
The sculpture, about 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 Tuesday.
The nickname is the same used for a famous mural of the resurrected Jesus that overlooks the Notre Dame football stadium.
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.
Estimated damage from the fire was set at $700,000 — $300,000 for the statue and $400,000 for the amphitheater, Fire Capt. Richard Mascarella said Tuesday.
Jeebus is a flamer? :spooked: :biggrin:
We've been discussing that in another thread.
If he was a flamer, why is gay marriage such a fly in the ointment?
Quote from: followsthewolf on June 15, 2010, 08:18:23 PM
We've been discussing that in another thread.
Here it is Dan. . . fyi. . .
http://theunknownzone.us/smf/index.php?topic=14339.msg364053#msg364053 (http://theunknownzone.us/smf/index.php?topic=14339.msg364053#msg364053)
Quote from: followsthewolf on June 15, 2010, 08:19:18 PM
If he was a flamer, why is gay marriage such a fly in the ointment?
Its all about doing as they say, not as they do! :yes:
Quote from: followsthewolf on June 15, 2010, 08:19:18 PM
If he was a flamer, why is gay marriage such a fly in the ointment?
Because (according to accepted dogma, which is not the same thing as the truth) Jesus never married. I don't think he even had a dog.
Quote from: Palehorse on June 15, 2010, 08:20:16 PM
Here it is Dan. . . fyi. . .
http://theunknownzone.us/smf/index.php?topic=14339.msg364053#msg364053 (http://theunknownzone.us/smf/index.php?topic=14339.msg364053#msg364053)
Sorry. I missed that thread. Still too fucking funny. Touchdown jesus, my ass.
BTW: jesus is wholeheartedly gay and "everybody's bitch". "Real men" that love jesus do so as closeted homosexuals as they can go on for hours with their "bitch", who never talks back and is only interested in getting them the newest fishing equipment. Women that love jesus, do so as their highly valued "gay friend"; he always listens and helps them with decorating the house, or is helping to know the "right people" at church.
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Quote from: LOsborne on June 15, 2010, 08:27:25 PM
Because (according to accepted dogma, which is not the same thing as the truth) Jesus never married. I don't think he even had a dog.
Yeah, maybe. But he can't fool me. He hung around with guys all the time. Never dated.
Quote from: followsthewolf on June 15, 2010, 08:55:19 PM
Yeah, maybe. But he can't fool me. He hung around with guys all the time. Never dated.
...liked washing other men's feet while half (or mostly naked), known to be in the company of naked boys (kept disappearing the night of his arrest and found with a naked young man), loved getting doused with perfumes and expensive oils. Hell, I bet he even preferred mineral water (makes more sense within the context of the movie; Heathers). :smile:
I laughed my ass off when I first saw this story. Ole' Gawd musta' been testin' the flock. Zapped his own damn son with that lightning bolt and set the flock back some $700,000. I'm sure this has caused much wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst the flock as they ponder exactly why a lightning bolt would choose to strike a
6 story tall structure with a steel frame which was sitting in a relatively flat area. But that takes science to explain and science be bad. :biggrin:
:rotfl: :rotfl:
BTW, here's a video of ole Jeebus' goin' up in flames. ;D
It's interesting how people who would seemingly be angered by jokes about the Prophet Mohamed would so casually make jokes about Jesus Christ. It's a sign from God that he's angry about the growing numbers of people who have foresaken him.
Quote from: Doc on June 18, 2010, 09:02:07 PM
It's interesting how people who would seemingly be angered by jokes about the Prophet Mohamed would so casually make jokes about Jesus Christ. It's a sign from God that he's angry about the growing numbers of people who have foresaken him.
You give me a pain. :groan:
Me too, Troll. The money spend on that silly crap could easily feed a village or two. Hell, they could create an education fund or scholarships for the needy. Then again, book learning doesn't further their cause. :wink:
Quote from: Doc on June 18, 2010, 09:02:07 PM
It's interesting how people who would seemingly be angered by jokes about the Prophet Mohamed would so casually make jokes about Jesus Christ.
Okay, which of you bozos got honked off about the Mohammed jokes?
QuoteIt's a sign from God that he's angry about the growing numbers of people who have foresaken him.
It would probably be cheaper and more effective just to send a card. I'm sure Hallmark has one appropriate to the occasion.
I just discovered a new home remedy. Sweet ice tea is an extremely effective nasal passage flusher. :biggrin:
Now how to I get tea and snot off my keyboard? ;D
Quote from: Doc on June 18, 2010, 09:02:07 PM
. . . It's a sign from God that he's angry about the growing numbers of people who have foresaken him.
Or a sign that s/he is no longer going to just sit there and take this manmade bastardization of what s/he intended this little petri dish experiment to be; and doesn't agree with the tax free profit generation machine it has been turned into. They are not forsaking the creator, just the human creation of a creator.
Quote from: LOsborne on June 19, 2010, 08:39:43 AM
Okay, which of you bozos got honked off about the Mohammed jokes?
It would probably be cheaper and more effective just to send a card. I'm sure Hallmark has one appropriate to the occasion.
If you can't be with the one you love, honey, love the one you're with.
Quote from: Sandy Eggo on June 19, 2010, 10:25:10 AM
Now how to I get tea and snot off my keyboard? ;D
Turn it upside down. When it's dry, you can pop the plastic caps off the letters and clean under them with a toothbrush. It's best to do them one at a time. I got the
plus and
minus signs swapped last time.
Now, I mostly try not to be taking a drink when I read something for the first time.
Quote from: LOsborne on June 19, 2010, 08:39:43 AM
Okay, which of you bozos got honked off about the Mohammed jokes?
It would probably be cheaper and more effective just to send a card. I'm sure Hallmark has one appropriate to the occasion.
As far as I am concerned, I think jesus and mohammed are buggering each other in heaven. Mohammed will pay the slut with the horse he rode to heaven on so jesus can ride it back to earth to destroy me for calling them gay. My only sin, here; insulting gay men.
Quote from: dan foster on June 21, 2010, 09:42:41 PM
As far as I am concerned, I think jesus and mohammed are buggering each other in heaven. Mohammed will pay the slut with the horse he rode to heaven on so jesus can ride it back to earth to destroy me for calling them gay. My only sin, here; insulting gay men.
Maybe we could bring in the Church Lady in and her bring in her Golden Tablets found in the Arizona desert and calm all of this sadness.
:devil09: :devil09: :devil09: :sneaky:
You know I was thinking when I was looking at where the plastic Jesus was standing. I seen whose steel poles sticking up. I always thought that lightning rods were put on the outside of the thing they were trying to save. Maybe BP designed it. Internal lightning rods on the inside. It looks like it didn't work: :rotfl: :rotfl: :tiphat:
Quote from: The Troll on June 22, 2010, 05:27:36 PM
You know I was thinking when I was looking at where the plastic Jesus was standing. I seen whose steel poles sticking up. I always thought that lightning rods were put on the outside of the thing they were trying to save. Maybe BP designed it. Internal lightning rods on the inside. It looks like it didn't work: :rotfl: :rotfl: :tiphat:
:food24: :rotfl:
Quote from: Doc on June 18, 2010, 09:02:07 PM
It's interesting how people who would seemingly be angered by jokes about the Prophet Mohamed would so casually make jokes about Jesus Christ. It's a sign from God that he's angry about the growing numbers of people who have foresaken him.
Gosh, and I thought "his" following was continuing to grow based on megachurch riches and some church having $700k to waste on crap. Now, how is it you can come to the conclusion of your broadbrush of "people who would seemingly be angered by jokes about the Prophet Mohamed"? You assume that we atheist (which isn't ALL the people in this thread) are somehow so "god-damned" liberal that we would defend attacks on "those people's" religion, but just hate jesus enough to attack "him"? I guess I just don't understand your paranoid delusional world where you think just because we would attack jesus, our reasons must be somehow twisted into something only you could understand with motivations only you could dream up. But, of course, I do understand your delusion; jesus is the only true imaginary friend and so anyone that would defend an attack on mohamed (aka, moosehameggs) just doesn't get it. So, you needed your opening premise to prop up your sad little argument. Sad. Really sad, doc.
Quote from: dan foster on June 30, 2010, 11:59:33 PMGosh, and I thought "his" following was continuing to grow based on megachurch riches and some church having $700k to waste on crap. Now, how is it you can come to the conclusion of your broadbrush of "people who would seemingly be angered by jokes about the Prophet Mohamed"? You assume that we atheist (which isn't ALL the people in this thread) are somehow so "god-damned" liberal that we would defend attacks on "those people's" religion, but just hate jesus enough to attack "him"? I guess I just don't understand your paranoid delusional world where you think just because we would attack jesus, our reasons must be somehow twisted into something only you could understand with motivations only you could dream up. But, of course, I do understand your delusion; jesus is the only true imaginary friend and so anyone that would defend an attack on mohamed (aka, moosehameggs) just doesn't get it. So, you needed your opening premise to prop up your sad little argument. Sad. Really sad, doc.
:jc: :pray: :preach: Why is it, when I hear, I been born again, I'm a Christian, So help me God, pray and your prayers will be answered, the hair on the back of my neck stands straight up. It also stands up when the song goes through my mind. Onward Chistian Teabagers marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus Da,da, daaaaa.
Oh, I did tell you that I have an alergy and the older I get, the worse it gets. It's BUll Shit. It will probably what will kills me. :tiphat: The Troll
They're spending $700,000 on that, with how many starving people in the world, and how many other good causes?
Quote from: followsthewolf on July 01, 2010, 12:38:48 PMThey're spending $700,000 on that, with how many starving people in the world, and how many other good causes?
In the name of God, give, give until it hurts. Think of it as seed money, for every dollar give, God will reward many times over.
Also I have a little Holy Water that I have prepared for you. The Lord and with the help of me, has prepared just for you, $50 per ounce.
All of this and a $100 we will send you this pure copper, silver cross, plated with 100% pure silver and for an extra $100 we will send you a highly polished pewter cross with the whole text of the Lords prayer on it and with a magnifying glass to read it with. God Bless you :pray: :preach: Holy :ghost: