News reports indicates that a 6-story tall statue of Jesus Christ at the evangelical Solid Rock Church along I-75 in Ohio was, get this, struck by lightning!
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.
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.
Now, don't misunderstand this. I'm not having a glee moment here. It is a statue and has no meaning to me. However, many misguided and so-called religious followers often attach meanings to symbols. Just read about people seeing images of Jesus or the Virgin Mary on things ranging from expressways underpass to potato chips! And morons such as Pat Robertson even attaches natural calamity to sins committed by people befallen by such unfortunate events. So I am rather curious as to why none of these people have attached any meanings to such a dramatic destruction of a religious symbol. They always bring out instances when a church or other religious symbols somehow remained standing or unscathed after a natural disaster, as if that is god's sign of something (forgetting that god sent down that disaster in the first place). So this is a clear instance that maybe god didn't like what you're worshiping?
Like I said, it is certainly is amusing.
Zz.
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