Jesus Statue Destroyed By Lightning

[Terramax]

The way his hands are up, him looking to the sky, it was as if he'd been waiting for it the whole time.

 

[Lord George]

This certainly gives support to the "Nikola Tesla became a being of pure energy and decided to blow shit up" theory

 

[mumakurau]

Anyone else expecting this picture to become a new internet meme any moment now?

OT: I am an athiest and this just made my day!

I concur. Meme is inevitable.

Cheers to another ironic victory for the atheist!

Jesus: If I am not your son, may you strike me doooOOOOOH SHIIIIII-!!!

Guess he was adopted!

Although as far as Bible goes, wouldn't he be God's bastard child?

I mean, God wasn't married to what's-her-name ***** who got knocked up and then blamed god on it.

This is certainly delicious thought candy...

 

[Poofs]

oh, thats pretty ironic
i guess Zeus doesnt like football.....
you see what i did there?

 

[mumakurau]

oh, thats pretty ironic
i guess Zeus doesnt like football.....
you see what i did there?

 

[GnomeThief]

When my mom and I saw this we were laughing for so long our sides hurt. We used to live in Ohio and drove past that statue several times and always used to make fun of it. If they decide to blow 250,000 dollars on building another one, let's hope they choose to make it out of something less flammable.

 

[Dorian6]

All Hail Mighty Thor

 

[snow]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100615/ap_on_re_us/us_lightning_strikes_jesus_statue

Welp, I'm an atheist now, that's for sure. :3

Thoughts? It can hardly be counted as worshipping a false idol...

Shouldn't that be driving you to a belief in Zeus instead of atheism?

HAHAHAHAHA!!! Very nice!

I just read this on Yahoo news before I came to the Escapist for my daily lawls. I wonder how many people will take this as some sort of sign?

 

[Gigaguy64]

It took god 6 years to do this? Wow, so on the 7th year he'll rest, right?

I laughed more than i should have.....

OT:While it was pretty ugly its a giant Lightning Rod made out of Burnable Material.
Im surprised it hadn't been hit sooner.

 

[Siuki]

Since when have the Norse/Greek gods been pissed at Christianity? Good thing I'm an atheist or I would be freaking out.

 

[snow]

For those keeping count at home, that's 3 out of the 5 sighs of the coming Apocalypse.

The 4th sign is the fact that I read this post on the day the Escapist does the apocalypse theme!

 

[thenumberthirteen]

To be honest a foam and fibreglass statue isn't a proper statue in my book.

 

[Sworm]

I see the potential for an internet Meme in this...

 

[zombiejoe]

well, that's upsetting

I would say this is a sighn, but someone is bound to respond

FAKE AND GAY!

 

[Lord_Panzer]

Noooooo! Not Big Butter Jesus!!

One final tribute to the statue...

 

[Guffe]

Oh, the irony is painful...
So, uhm, who else is up for some Zeus worship now? I don't want to piss him off...
Or is it Thor?

I hope it's Thor since then I would be close to him (I'm from Finland) and it would be good to know that someone like that once watched, and still watches over my country ^^

 

[Buizel91]

Anyone else expecting this picture to become a new internet meme any moment now?

OT: I am an athiest and this just made my day!

can just imagine the caption, it will be like the Darth Vader "nooooooo!" =P

 

[GundamSentinel]

Well, 62 feet tall and made of plastic foam, that's asking for it. Half a million up in smoke. Still, always sad when a statue gets killed.