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.
Raze Jesus!
I used to pass by this eyesore fairly regularly. It is just off the interstate just north of Cincinnati. The church is one of those huge megachurches. They also have a huge electronic sign that flashes messages. If I went to this church I think I’d be rethinking how much I donated to them…
I love that the frame that is left looks kind of like the Wicker Man.
No graven images…?
How did they know what Jesus looked like to make a statue of him? There are no surviving photographs from the time He walked on Earth. I’d kind of wonder if people are worshiping the statue instead of Jesus. Just saying that is the reason it got struck by lightning.
#15 The Ox:
“Behold, he is resin.”
For The Win
This is Mother Nature’s way of telling us to stop worshiping false gods and we should all be Druids, taking care of the plants, trees, oceans and earth in general.
Zeus shoots,
he scores, GOOOOOOOOAL!!!
Marvel Comics needs to jump on this immediately and use this as marketing for their upcoming Thor movie. Obviously the God of Thunder and struck back and is reclaiming his place. ROTFLMAO
Did it come back? It’s been three days …
BBJ in happier times- caught a glimpse of him on vacation in September 2009-
http://lettucebelt.com/images/BBJ.jpg
The artist must think he was a cyborg. You
burn away the flesh and you are left with
a robotic skeleton.
On an almost related note, the Vatican has approved The Blues Brothers movie for viewing.
I liked the movie because it had a lot of good lines, riffs, and actually the singing too. Could have been better, but I think that about everything.
http://theregister.co.uk/2010/06/18/blues_brothers/
Apparently now they are going to replace the touchdown Jesus with the offsides Jesus.
Hopefully the Solid Rock Church will get this Jesus statue replaced without delay. It would be a real shame if those folks took the time to think and decided that the money would be better spent feeding hungry families and helping the sick who can’t afford health care.
By the way, the old statue that was destroyed looked nothing like the real Jesus, who actually bore a striking resemblance to Frodo, right down to his hairy feet.
Karma is a lady dog.
Touchdown Jesus didn’t catch the fireball gawd threw him.
An act of cloud!
# 33 Gary, the dangerous infidel said, on June 18th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
“By the way, the old statue that was destroyed looked nothing like the real Jesus, who actually bore a striking resemblance to Frodo, right down to his hairy feet.”
What is the ‘Real Jesus’? A figment of someone’s imagination.
Time to start worshiping Zeus?
#35 “Touchdown Jesus didn’t catch the fireball gawd threw him.”
And the late-news teaser would be…
“Touchdown Jesus fumbles “Hail Mary” pass and bursts into flames, film at 11:00.”
As one who has driven by a bunch of times the way it was sitting in the pond I always called it the ‘drowning Jesus’.