I HOPE someone got pics! Not that I like seeing Jesus on fire mind you...but "Big Butter Jesus" has become kind of a national joke. It's like the Stay-Pufft Marshmallow man going up in flames.
With Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. around... it's already out there! I just posted a photo credit for you on the facebook page of one of Fox19's weathermen!
It looks like another structure behind the remains is afire also.
They don't build 'em like they used to.... Notre Dame in Paris is over 700 years old, has been through lightning strike after lightning strike, windstorms, floods, pillaging, wars and occupation ... and this thing didn't even last a decade. (I remember when the "submerged" cross cracked and broke a few years back when the pond froze ... not a "strong Christian" message in seeing that, unfortunately!)
If it is replaced, I hope SRC opts for something a bit more austere and a little less "Graceland". JMO
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth << Exodus 20:4 >>
You are who you are, because you choose to be that way
quote:[i]Originally posted by itbedave[/i] [br]I'm reading reports that they spent $500,000 on that statue...and plan to rebuild it. Anyone know if that dollar amount is true?
That's the price tag listed on the Wikipedia page:
See what you miss with a storm + Time Warner? = no phone, no cable, no internet, no burning Jesus!
Gotta admit it was a shocking headline to see first thing this morning as the cover story on Yahoo. Go Monroe!
Anyway, the shell is downright freaky - and why does it remind me of Mecha Streisand? Joking aside, this has got to be a sign from above that it was an abomination and should be destroyed.
My bff in Cali just called me. She can't stop laughing at what happened. Her coworkers think she has lost it. But she is from here and gets the irony of it all. She's gonna roll when she see's this pic.
WAY back in 2004 Dan Wilson (remember him?) said: "I hope the statue is a bobblehead with lasers in its eyes and smoke and fire coming out of the mouth. Now THAT would be a cool attraction."
It's been kind of cool today. I have been on phone with the AP out of new York. I really didn't get that great of a picture because like a doofus I didn't take a tri pod or a better lens, but it's been neat.
quote:[i]Originally posted by Vincent Rush[/i] [br]It's been kind of cool today. I have been on phone with the AP out of new York. I really didn't get that great of a picture because like a doofus I didn't take a tri pod or a better lens, but it's been neat.
I got my first phone call from them at 2:30 am.
That's cool!
On a side note - the marquee sign in front now proclaims: "HE'LL BE BACK!"
...which goes right along with his now Terminator-esqe exoskeleton.
Our football team started winning right after this was built...I am more worried about them..rebuild it. Hornets want to keep their winning seasons alive...
IF YOU CAN'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS THEN GO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM....
quote:[i]Originally posted by itbedave[/i] [br]I'm reading reports that they spent $500,000 on that statue...and plan to rebuild it. Anyone know if that dollar amount is true?
Quote from article on RR home page: The 4,000-member, nondenominational church was founded by former horse trader Lawrence Bishop and his wife. Bishop said in 2004 he was trying to help people, not impress them, with the statue. He said his wife proposed the Jesus figure as a beacon of hope and salvation and they spent about $250,000 to finance it.
Solid Rock Church Jesus Destroyed by Lightning
Posted - 06/14/2010 : 11:30:26 PM
