# The GIANT JESUS
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 29, 2004, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203 "2004-11-29T20:14:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/41 "2004-11-30T15:30:07Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#):
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> Is it just me or does the Messiah look like he is sinking in quicksand?
“I don’t wanna die in the Okeefenokee! I don’t wanna die in the Okeefenokee!”
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/42 "2004-11-30T16:09:44Z")
Directly across the Interstate, someone should build an equally-gigantic “Bat Out Of Hell” diorama with Death on a Harley bursting from the ground…
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/43 "2004-11-30T16:27:42Z")
I keep imagining Charlie Sheen looking down on it from a Huey.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/44 "2004-11-30T20:17:39Z")
> [@Eve](#):
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> “_Hey!_ Where the hell’s my 2330-foot Jesus, dammit?!”
Singing:
I don’t care if it rains or freezes
As long as I’ve got my 2330-foot Jesus
Sittin’ on the dashboard of my car…
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/45 "2004-11-30T23:06:37Z")
> [@Eve](#):
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> _What?!_ The damn tourism site said it was 2330 feet tall! Good thing I didn’t go flying down to Rio (“by the sea-oh”), or I’d have been _really_ pissed off to find a teeny-tiny 150-foot Jesus.
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> “_Hey!_ Where the hell’s my 2330-foot Jesus, dammit?!”
I think Oral Roberts has it.
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/46 "2004-11-30T23:23:58Z")
Well, gee, now that someone has actually made a statue of the Zombie Jesus (a Giant Zombie Jesus, at that), I want to see a Christ on a Crutch statue.
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/47 "2004-11-30T23:28:05Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#):
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> Well, gee, now that someone has actually made a statue of the Zombie Jesus (a Giant Zombie Jesus, at that), I want to see a Christ on a Crutch statue.
And a giant Christ on a Cracker Statue, and a Jesus Christ in a Chicken Basket Statue, and a Christ on a Pogo Stick Statue and. . . .
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2004, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/48 "2004-12-01T00:14:15Z")
I’d like to see a “Creepin’ Christ On A Cross” statue.
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### Author:  [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/49 "2004-12-01T01:44:20Z")
> [@Eve](#):
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> What’s the matter with his _elbows_? He looks like he has some horrible degenerative joint disease.
That’s a side effect of the atomic radiation that caused him go grow so large.
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### Author:  [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/50 "2004-12-01T03:33:02Z")
> [@Manduck](#):
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> Touchdown!
Think anyone goes out there with a football and tries to kick it through?
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### Author:  [@Marsie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marsie)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2004, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/51 "2004-12-01T05:59:05Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#):
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> Did anyone see the statue of the giant Jesus at a church in (Ohio, maybe?)? It stood six stories tall and was just the upper torso, arms and head. Kinda scary. In a King Kong Meets Mothra kind of way. I saw this briefly on MSNBC this morning and haven’t been able to find anything else on it all day. Anyone? Anyone?
We live maybe 45 minutes from this church. It looks more like a casino than a church. Folks around these parts have dubbed it the “Butter Jesus”. It looks just like one of those butter cow statues the state fair puts in the refrigerated section of the dairy exhibition every year.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/52 "2004-12-01T15:32:36Z")
> [@asterion](#):
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> Think anyone goes out there with a football and tries to kick it through?
Let’s hope the crowd behaves if it’s a game winner.
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### Author:  [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2004, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/53 "2004-12-01T16:24:36Z")
“I caught a fish, this big.”
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/54 "2004-12-01T20:55:20Z")
&?[&? l=http://www.corrosionsource.com/technicallibrary/corrdoctors/Modules/Landmarks/christ-location.htm]This is the Giant Jesus that really creeps me out–it’s 2330 feet tall[…]
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Of course you realize that’s counting the mountain.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2004, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/55 "2004-12-02T01:20:51Z")
> [@Trunk](#):
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> “I caught a fish, this big.”
That’s the [accepted gesture](http://www.kidssundayschool.com/Gradeschool/Colorpages/1colorpage01.php). 😃
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### Author:  [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/56 "2004-12-02T01:26:28Z")
he’s no buddy jesus . . . with the wink . . . and the thumb . . . that dude was kah-ool!
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### Author:  [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/57 "2004-12-02T03:15:36Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> My own personal giant Jesus is [the one](http://www.eurekaspringsarkansas.com/photos/statue.jpg) in Eureka Springs, Arkansas; from the front it’s blocky, but from the rear it looks _exactly_ like a milk carton.
Oh, but it gets funnier. The FAA came by and said the Jesus needed a blinking red light on his head. Rather than suffer that indignity, they lopped off Jesus’ feet! In the grass near him is a disembodied set of giant sandled feet.
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### Author:  [@Cherry2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cherry2000)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/58 "2004-12-02T03:47:52Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> And a giant Christ on a Cracker Statue, and a Jesus Christ in a Chicken Basket Statue, and a Christ on a Pogo Stick Statue and. . . .
And let us not forget the ever-popular Christ on a Pony statue 😉
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### Author:  [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2004, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/59 "2004-12-02T06:41:51Z")
> [@FisherQueen](#):
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> Giant Jesus is my neighbor.
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> It’s in Ohio, on Rt. 75, between Cincinnati and Dayton- I pass it whenever I visit my sister. It belongs to the Solid Rock Church. Words cannot express how enormous and tacky Giant Jesus is. Also, people have a tendency to slow down and/or turn their heads to look at it, causing congestion and accidents.
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> [Here](http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/OHMONjesus.html) is a picture of Giant Jesus, but please be aware that, in real life, he’s much larger and less attractive.
From that website we the **the DUH of the Day**
> [@](#):
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> Soon after the statue’s completion, tipster Lori Baker wrote us: “I found it interesting that a poll taken of locals concerning the statue of Jesus in Monroe had the following results: 25% feel that it is a ‘Godsend, good for Monroe,’ while 75% found that it was an ‘Eyesore, bad for Monroe.’”
wait for it…
and…
all together now…
DUH!
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### Author:  [@Blackclaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackclaw)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-giant-jesus/277203/60 "2004-12-02T14:57:18Z")
I pass the giant Ohio Jesus everyday on my way to work. I have been very tempted to tie a giant red cape onto him and then somehow apply a nondamaging “S” decal to his chest. I think everyone would benefit from Super Jesus.
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