'Touchdown Jesus' statue fire not a sign from God, Solid Rock Church leader says

[Barack_America]

'Touchdown Jesus' statue fire not a sign from God, Solid Rock Church leader says

...Bishop disagrees with people who lit up Internet comment boards suggesting – either jokingly or seriously – that the lightning strike could have been a sign that God disapproved of the statue. During the statue’s six years in front of the church, “he’s weathered a lot of storms,” Bishop said....

But Hurricane Katrina WAS a punishment from God for the sins of New Orleans, got it?

...Monday’s traffic-stopping fire struck just before the church was to begin repainting the statue. Because of insurance coverage, “Now we get to build a whole brand-new one, paid-for,” Bishop said. “We are blessed.”....

Um, that's IF your insurance company doesn't enact their "Act of God" clause and agrees to pay up.

...The lightning hit in spite of preventive measures, Neu said.

“Everything around the structure and even the structure itself has lightning resistors and grounding rods,” Neu said, but he added that the unpredictable nature of lightning can decrease effectiveness of those devices....

Could one perhaps say that lightning is divinely unpredictable?

More:
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100615/NEWS01/306160001/Rebuilding-plan-Make-it-fireproof

:rofl:

[Dappleganger]

1. Even God must do a facepalm at times.

That bad art must've been too much for the big man upstairs.

[HillWilliam]

2. As one poster on FB put it

"Put up by nuts, taken down by bolts" :rofl:

[Dr.Phool]

6. LOL

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[derby378]

7. +100 (n/t)

[malaise]

14. DUzy

:rofl:

[Soylent Brice]

24. BRILLIANT! n/t

[WCGreen]

29. that's rich....

[sui generis]

3. So if god didn't cause it he also didn't save it.

FSM 1, old white dude in the clouds, 0

[Fire1]

4. I don't care what anybody says, I'm gonna miss that

landmark on my way outta Michigan heading south. It was so cool!

[hlthe2b]

19. Really? I guess you have to see it in person...

I have to say it looked rather ridiculous...(in the photos)

[Fire1]

31. If I'm gonna 'miss it' that means I've seen it "in person." n/t

[hlthe2b]

35. You misunderstand what I said..

I meant (rhetorically) that I guess one would have to see it in person in order to appreciate it and since I'd only seen a photo, I could not. :shrug:

[AsahinaKimi]

5. This was pretty predictable ..

I mean seriously, how could they say other wise?

[Barack_America]

8. I will be eagerly following the "blessing" of their fat insurance payout.

I have a hard time believing any insurance company would reimburse for six stories of flammable foam ignited by lightning.

[doc03]

17. I heard on the radio this morning they are going to

rebuild it for something like over $700,000. I would think if they were Christians that $700,000 could be put to better use. Why would a church need insurance anyway? Where the hell is Reverend Phelps? God probably struck the thing with lightening because of the DADT military thingy didn't he.

[gratuitous]

18. Damn, seven hundred grand?

We could run our congregation for ten or eleven years on that. But we're only housing homeless people, feeding the hungry, and visiting the sick and imprisoned. What's that compared to a six-story paean to the movie Platoon?

[Vickers]

28. "Why would a church need insurance anyway?"

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[lunatica]

9. It's all the fault of teh gays anyway

[pipi_k]

10. It was those elves bowling in the sky!!!!

That's where thunder comes from, right?

Well, how do we know there wasn't a malfunction in the wiring in the bowling alley. Or maybe one of them had some stray static electricity in his cell phone...


Why are we always blaming God for shit others do?


wahhhhhhhhhhhhh

:cry:

[ck4829]

11. Of course it's not God, it's electric discharge caused by the friction of dust and cystals in clouds

A thousand years ago, people were blaming meteorological events on God, we haven't progressed all that far, have we?

[Barack_America]

12. The aim was more to point out the hypocrisy of declaring hurricanes and earthquakes...

...as "messages from God", but excluding a direct lightning strike to a graven image of Jesus.

[old mark]

20. This is similar to the crowd who tried to pray the oil away down in the Gulf

last week...


mark

[Toasterlad]

26. You Mean the President?

[malaise]

13. What the hell does he know?

:rofl:

[HopeHoops]

15. Yeah, but if the lightening had struck a building with a gay pride event going on, THEN it would be!

God hates touchdown Jesus statues.

[hobbit709]

16. Want to bet that he would have said it was a sign from God

If the lightning had hit the giant adult video sign across the road from his church instead

[Iggo]

21. Well of course not...because there's no such thing. (n/t)

[dorkulon]

22. How conveeenient.

[AngryOldDem]

23. "Jesus Deaded by Act of Dad"

www.jeeeb.us

:rofl:

[Barack_America]

34. That was brilliant. nt

[Toasterlad]

25. Of Course Not. It's Only a Sign From God If a Homo Statue Burns Down.

[newspeak]

27. I remember when a tornado hit salt lake city

It hit part of the Mormon church, and I thought I wonder what the church is going to say about it. Remember when, was it Falwell?, state that NOLA was destroyed by Katrina because of their sin? Even though, it was the levee that broke that caused most of the damage, which would make it man made. So, I wonder what he thinks about the flooding in Oklahoma, and the devastating flash flood in Arkansas? It seems when some devastation hits part of the so-called bible belt, usually no comment--but if it hits a place those bible thumpers consider full of sin, then God was punishing the place. What total hypocrisy.

[Sebastian Doyle]

30. If it was God, can you really blame Him?

If someone made a statue of my son that made him look that ridiculous, I'd probably set it on fire too! :rofl:

[LTX]

32. Maybe it was struck by lightning

Because God considered a statute of Burt Lancaster a graven image:

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=AB&Date=20100615&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=6150803&Ref=PH&Params=Itemnr=2

[jp11]

33. Yes it was, God wants a bigger statue that creeps people out from even farther away.