Jesus Is Burning: Now that is ironic
June 15th, 2010
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A few years ago, a church in Ohio built a six story tall Jesus Statue. It was known as “Touchdown Jesus” due to the pose, like a referee making the touchdown sign in football. Others called it “Butter Jesus” because it looked like it was made of butter.
Actually, what it was made of was polyurethane foam over a steel structure. Although the church is known as the “Church of the Solid Rock,” the Jesus sculpture was made of about the cheapest material around. In addition to being very cheap, it’s very very flammable.
Perhaps they were just expecting god to protect the sculpture. If that’s the case, he didn’t. It was hit by lightning.
The cheap, buttery-looking, highly flammable foam burned away in a few minutes leaving only the chard steel frame. It almost looks better afterward. I think I’ve seen classier sculptures being sold in the garden section of K-mart.
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June 15th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
http://40daydetox.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/irony.jpg
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June 15th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Hmmmm..
When urethane foam is used for insulation don’t they often add a fire retardant to prevent it from burning like gasoline? I guess the fire-safe kind was too expensive for the cheapo gawdy jesus
It looks like the fake masonry of the church was also made of some pretty sub-grade material.
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June 15th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
It’s a sign from the angels. A prediction was made that angels would come to Earth and attack humans. In the same prediction it was said that fire would erupt in various places. It’s the end.
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June 15th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
See some closeup pictures of this monstrosity here: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/tags/solidrockchurch/interesting/
The headline should be “Sculpture hit by lightning causing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of improvements”
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June 15th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
DV82XL said:
Hehehehe… Instead of flame retardant, he’s a flaming retard.
Hehe… That’s a Ku Klux Kalamity.
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June 15th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Want more irony?
http://rupyb.com/dbimg/images/gallery/rupy/151_notgointomakeit7ok__600_x_700.jpg
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June 15th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
“God hates fags” or maybe not.
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June 15th, 2010 at 10:55 pm
The lighting was SUPPOSED to hit NAKED Jesus……
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June 16th, 2010 at 4:05 am
Ha! Thor is mightier than Jesus!
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June 16th, 2010 at 4:54 am
Sometimes God drops some big hints when he doesn’t like something. I hope they can take a hint and not rebuild the statue.
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June 16th, 2010 at 6:19 am
But, there is more to the story. Across the street from this church was Larry Flynt’s “Hustler Hollywood” pornography store. The pornography store was untouched.
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June 16th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Hint: it’s only ironic if you think lightning strikes carry divine meaning. They don’t, and I’m sure you are aware that in fact a tall protruding structure (especially one with a conductive frame) is *more* likely to be struck, not less, and any religious aspects of it are irrelevant. Steeples and minarets get struck by lightning all the time. This is not a divine omen. This is physics. This is why the more sensible builders of such edifices take the time to install lightning rods.
Thus, this isn’t so much irony as it is schadenfreude.
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June 16th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Calli Arcale said:
Amusingly, the original churches were mostly underground (literally – they used catacombs) and so would have been immune to lightning. It was only when Christianity became powerful politically and started building large structures that it became a problem. From a religious point of view, you could almost say that the lightning strikes are a built-in punishment for ostentatiousness and a failure to keep it simple and humble.
Or not.
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June 16th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Well, that’s a literary archetype that goes way back, that of the mighty struck down in their quest to document their greatness with a huge structure. One early recorded example is the Tower of Babel, but it was also big in Greek literature. The sin of hubris.
My favorite example of that sort of thing isn’t that old. It’s the poem “Ozymandias”. “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!” says the plaque beside the two “vast and trunkless legs” which are all that remain of an enormous statue of Rameses II (Ozymandias being the name the Greeks used for him).
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June 17th, 2010 at 4:53 am
DV82XL said:
Shafe said:
Err… isn’t that a shot from Bad Boys 2?
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June 17th, 2010 at 5:51 am
I’mnotreallyhere said:
Hmm… maybe. That might explain why his arms kinda look like he’s wearing a fire suit. I would prefer to think that some KKK slack-jaw had to endure 3rd degree burns and painful skin grafts, but if not, I can always dream.
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June 17th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
You would think if they really believed in divine intervention this would be seen as a clear sign that god did not like their crappy foam sculpture.
But no, they already said it will be rebuilt.
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