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.
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.
Why was the statue submerged in the pond? Wasn’t Jesus supposed to have walked on top of the water?
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. Huge and not prone to fire damage.
That was a little much in the statue department. Maybe Jesus thought it a bit tacky.
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.
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”?
This song seems appropriate also. “It’s Called I’m Burning for You”.
There was a disco one? Burn baby burn… Oh, that is bad!
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.
Maybe it was His Royal, Divine Hot Tub?
It wasn’t submerged in the pond. It was behind it. The water was shallow, more of a reflecting pool.
I always thought a giant flaming Jesus would be more a California thing than an Ohio thing.
It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature!
ChiffonMargarine
First thing that sprang to mind when I saw this thread. 
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
When lightning strikes Jesus, Jesus doesn’t get electrocuted. The lightning gets Jesus.
Ah, “Safe at first base Jesus”
I ate into a Combo right as Jesus was zapped. This makes me your leader…
Haw haw!