# Jesus statue struck by lightning \[edited thread title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 15, 2010, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263 "2010-06-15T04:43:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![panman\_1960](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@panman\_1960](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panman_1960)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/41 "2010-06-15T17:24:44Z")
Lisa Cooney the news lady for WLWT in Ohio said “… it burnt to the ground last night, thanks to lightning…” I wonder if she will go to hell for that slip?😃 later, Tom. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/42 "2010-06-15T17:26:31Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > They church says its going to rebuild it…the thing cost the church $250,000 originally. > 😃 because, if youre a church, its more important to spend money on statues instead of feeding the hungry ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/43 "2010-06-15T17:39:08Z")
> [@BigBertha](#): > > because, if youre a church, its more important to spend money on statues instead of feeding the hungry My thought exactly, certainly there have to be better things they could do with that much money. Even if it was insured, replacing it after an Act of God seems both vain and defiant. I hear God doesn’t like those things. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/44 "2010-06-15T18:03:36Z")
Why was the statue submerged in the pond? Wasn’t Jesus supposed to have walked on top of the water? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/45 "2010-06-15T18:12:59Z")
> [@BigBertha](#): > > because, if youre a church, its more important to spend money on statues instead of feeding the hungry Silly you. Didn’t you know that the bigger the Jesus statue, the more pious you are? “Vern, I hear that down in the Tri Cities, they have a 40 foot tall Jesus statue” “What? They can’t get away with that! We’re so much more churchy than they are! We’re better Christians than anyone! And we’ll build a 60 foot tall Jesus just to prove it!” ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/46 "2010-06-15T18:17:52Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Silly you. > > Didn’t you know that the bigger the Jesus statue, the more pious you are? > > “Vern, I hear that down in the Tri Cities, they have a 40 foot tall Jesus statue” > > “What? They can’t get away with that! We’re so much more churchy than they are! We’re better Christians than anyone! And we’ll build a 60 foot tall Jesus just to prove it!” Rio de Janiero [pwns everyone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_the_Redeemer_%28statue%29). Huge **and** not prone to fire damage. ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/47 "2010-06-15T18:35:07Z")
That was a little much in the statue department. Maybe Jesus thought it a bit tacky. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/48 "2010-06-15T18:35:48Z")
> [@BigBertha](#): > > because, if youre a church, its more important to spend money on statues instead of feeding the hungry I know. They should have never built the damn thing in the first place and instead used the parish’s money for Christian principled activities like you suggest. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/49 "2010-06-15T20:08:56Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us\_lightning\_strikes\_jesus\_statue](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_lightning_strikes_jesus_statue) > [ul] > [li][Photo before act of God destroyed the statute](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Touchdown_jesus.jpg).[/li][li][Video of the burning](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAAj1OiH-WA).[/li][li][After the burning](http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/on-deadline/2010/06/15/statutex-large.jpg).[/li][/ul] Am I the only one who thought the person who edited that video missed a real opportunity by not scoring it to the Beach Boys’ [“God Only Knows”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDfH_J4MAUQ)? ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/50 "2010-06-15T20:16:00Z")
This song seems appropriate also. “It’s Called I’m Burning for You”. [Blue Oster Cult](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTvbXMRMnHo) There was a disco one? Burn baby burn… Oh, that is bad! ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/51 "2010-06-15T20:16:25Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > My thought exactly, certainly there have to be better things they could do with that much money. Even if it was insured, replacing it after an Act of God seems both vain and defiant. I hear God doesn’t like those things. Considering the scuttlebutt I’ve heard about the founders/pastors of the church over the years, I’d say that what god (or God, or Jesus) thinks about what they do means bugger-all to them. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/52 "2010-06-15T20:20:17Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Why was the statue submerged in the pond? Wasn’t Jesus supposed to have walked on top of the water? Maybe it was His Royal, Divine Hot Tub? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/53 "2010-06-15T20:21:14Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Why was the statue submerged in the pond? Wasn’t Jesus supposed to have walked on top of the water? It wasn’t submerged in the pond. It was behind it. The water was shallow, more of a reflecting pool. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/54 "2010-06-15T20:21:14Z")
I always thought a giant flaming Jesus would be more a California thing than an Ohio thing. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/55 "2010-06-15T20:24:54Z")
It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature! [ChiffonMargarine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLrTPrp-fW8) First thing that sprang to mind when I saw this thread. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/56 "2010-06-15T22:56:47Z")
Here’s a pretty funny link to a song by Heywood Banks off of a Cincinnati radio show:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq01UYiMyHg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq01UYiMyHg) ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/57 "2010-06-16T00:58:04Z")
When lightning strikes Jesus, Jesus doesn’t get electrocuted. The lightning gets Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/58 "2010-06-16T03:53:10Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Rio de Janiero [pwns everyone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_the_Redeemer_%28statue%29). Huge **and** not prone to fire damage. Ah, “Safe at first base Jesus” ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/59 "2010-06-16T05:11:42Z")
I ate into a Combo right as Jesus was zapped. This makes me your leader… ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-edited-thread-title/543263/60 "2010-06-16T05:18:42Z")
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