# In which God gets back into the smiting business

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 23, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-god-gets-back-into-the-smiting-business/209200 "2003-10-23T21:45:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-god-gets-back-into-the-smiting-business/209200/1 "2003-10-23T21:45:54Z")

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From [here](http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_831648.html):

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> The actor who plays Jesus in Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of Christ has escaped injury after being struck by lightning during filming.
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> Both Caviezel and his assistant director Michelini were struck. The main bolt hit Caviezel and one of its forks hit Michelini’s umbrella.
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> Neither of the men sustained injuries in the incident.
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> Michelini has been nicknamed Lightning Boy after being struck twice by lightning during the filming in Italy. He had already suffered light burns on the tips of his fingers in an earlier incident during filming on a hilltop in the town of Matera.

Okay, one lightning strike might be considered an amusing coincidence, but _two_? If I were working on that film, I’d be having some serious second thoughts.

Psst, God – aim for Mel next time…

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**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-god-gets-back-into-the-smiting-business/209200/2 "2003-10-23T21:58:44Z")

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Jeez, hints don’t come bigger than those. Go Zeus, go! You show them who’s the real God aroudn those parts! 😛

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**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-god-gets-back-into-the-smiting-business/209200/3 "2003-10-24T07:14:23Z")

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Everybody’s a critic.