MONROE, Ohio – An artist who designed an Ohio church’s giant statue of Jesus that was destroyed by lightning this week says he’s willing to help replace it.
Brad Coriell of Nashville, Tenn., says he has not been in contact with the Solid Rock Church but would be honored to be involved.
Co-pastor Darlene Bishop at the church along an interstate north of Cincinnati says Coriell could be among the artists who will submit designs and cost estimates for a new statue. Church officials say it’s likely to look different from the original six-story “King of Kings.”
A lightning strike Monday sparked a fire that burned down the plastic foam and fiberglass statue that was nicknamed Touchdown Jesus because of the way the arms were raised.
This can’t be good.
Poor Jesucks
Thou shall not make make graven images.
Duh!
Holy flaming Jesus!
The artist offering to restore it ought to use ingenuity in its replacement. Remove the previous idols remains, then call the new blank spot the “Holy spirit.” it could even be 10 stories tall!
This time, install a lightning rod, and make it fire retardant.
#4 what good will that do? when god doesnt want you to infringe copyright, no little lighting rod is gonna protect you..
amazing these ding a lings dont get it that god is pissed about this unlicensed reproduction.
His local nickname was Touchdown Jesus. I used to see him every day going between Cincinnati and Dayton. I always liked the name Zombie Jesus as it looked like he was coming up from underground.
I think it was originally supposed to be a full statue, but the bottom torso was not made to the same scale as the upper torso, so he would have looked like a dwarf. Since they had already spent the money, the just used the top half.
#2 Got to go with you.
Football Jesus is mixing Church and State of Football too closely.
Artist would be “honored to be involved” as in gets paid again to create another fire hazard. I don’t think art is exempt from other building codes?
Good to see though that our Heavenly Father does have good taste in art and will still muster the interest to zap the blasphemers.
Yea – - ah – - GOD!!!!!
Idol rumor.
LOL moment – Amazing this didn’t go up in flames before. Essentially they built a big lighting rod and covered it in fuel – foam plastic is pretty much gasoline in a non-liquid form.
This:
http://tinyurl.com/2cz2aua
Praise Zeus.
This statue inspired Heywood Banks to write “Big Butter Jesus”. As in it reminded him of those butter statues they make at the Iowa state fair.
The statue is called Big Butter Jeseus, too. There’s a song and a blog dedicated to it.
Here are the links to a YouTube video of the song and the blog, respectively:
http://youtube.com/v/_-ksuOaI61g&hl=en_US&fs=1& (song by Heywood Banks)
http://jeeebus.wordpress.com/ (blog)
On the BBC news the announcer said this in all seriousness: “Insurance companies are calling it an Act of God.”
Hilarious but true!!!!
Behold, he is resin.
Tie in to the new Thor Movie?
God is great
God is good
And we thank Dvorak for this food
Amen!
Adam Curry is right…Dvorak is a big baby!
It must have been the work of BP.
Now if lightning had struck the neighbor’s place & burned it down the religious nuts would be “It’s a miracle, the statue survived…”.
They’re always conspicuously silent when lightning DOES hit them, or a tornado blows down a church. Another great example of how the religious attribute the positives to the devine while dismissing the negatives. You can’t have it both ways! If a god is going to save one church/religious object, then another getting destroyed is either A: Caused by the god or B: Ignored by the god.
Yet they will never say “Our Jesus got hit by lightning because god didn’t care or hates us”.