A six-story-tall statue of Jesus’ torso known as “Big Butter Jesus” and/or “Touchdown Jesus” — because what is wrong with people? — was struck by lightning and burned to the ground last night. The vulgar landmark was built in 2004 outside some mall church in the outskirts of Cincinnati. “It was made of plastic foam and fiberglass over a steel frame, which is all that remained early Tuesday,” the AP reports. So now it’s just an awful robot skeleton of Jesus’ torso … which is exactly what was found in Jesus’ tomb on the very first Christmas right before the Roman Empire razed the entire wretched terrorist-filled provincial capital of Jerusalem.
So why did the god Thor (Allah) blast apart this stupid, ugly statue of half of Jesus trying and failing to catch a football, or perhaps waving his arms in a way that says, to watchers of American football, “I am aware of a touchdown”? Because America is Doomed, of course. But what do the commenters on Yahoo News have to say about this important development in exurban Ohio history?
- Should have installed a lighting rod on the darn thing.
- the man made Jesus fall down, but the son of GOD remainet the same forever.
- okayy look..they arent downing anyones religion or anything. they are talking about something horrible that happened. and its wrong for yall to criticize people. and Ed you are right God is Love but that doesnt mean that people cant make a statue of Jesus. You dont know how many people could have gotten saved because of that statue. That statue is a symbol to people. It openss peoples eyes and lets them know they can still be saved and go to Heaven with their Lord and Savior. I am a Christian. And I take to offense half the comments that are on here. Yall should be ashamed of yalls selves. And just so you know before God will forgive you, you must forgive yourself of your wrongdoing. And what yall put on here is wrong. Yall dont seem to care about the fact that Bishop and his wife paid alot of money to have that statue made. Yall just care about criticizing people and putting down people. Yall should care about what happened and feel sorry for them. But yall dont and that is just plain rude. And Jenny I agree with you 100 percent
- Thou shalt not make a tasteless statue in my image…
- Wake up America a message is being sent. Not just this instance but many small ones.
- We must never forget that George W. Bush destroyed our nation.
6-story Jesus statue in Ohio struck by lightning [Yahoo News]
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If there was ever a post that demanded the article image be of “Buddy Christ”…
Don’t worry, He’ll be back.
Not to mention
There are almost 6000 comments to snicker over.
i went with ‘zeus throws challenge flag, kills jesus.’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO5Y1OuQIxo
And YHWH did look down on their vulgar graven idols, and spake saying, “God damnit. No seriously, you are damned now.”
It’s not Touchdown Jesus, dammit, it’s “Big Butter Jesus!” Touchdown Jesus is at Notre Dame – only yahoos call it touchdown. It’s name comes from the classic song by Heywood Banks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ksuOaI61g
Look on my foam and fiberglass over a steel frame, ye might, and despair.
“Yall dont seem to care about the fact that Bishop and his wife paid alot of money to have that statue made.”
Yall got that right, damn straight.
Fuck that Norse noise. I know the work of the Greeks when I see it, and such wry dramatic irony could only be wrought by Zeus, God of Epic Game-Salting.
Ye mighty that is.
Yall’s goin’ to Hell!
And my ‘Macrame Lazarus’ survived? yep.
Thank God it wasn’t the REAL Touchdown Jesus.
Oh, I get it. It’s like Burning Man, only for Christians.
Blown up by 7th Day Adventists just like the environmentalists nuked that BP rig.
Looks like a T-1000 to me. Sky Net must have become self aware
Based on the image in the article, I’d this is a sign that it’s not a good idea to build a structure taller than everything else nearby without a lightning rod. Which is something that Ben Franklin discovered over 250 years, but then he wasn’t a Christian and failed to investigate how ghost Jesus would protect his own image from beyond the grave.
God’s lame attempt to re-animate Jesus. Even Dr. Frankenstein knows a Van Der Graf Generator is required, in addition to lightning.
I think the most surprising thing about this is that there were Yahoo commenters that didn’t blame Muslims.
The one guy needs his own “Yall leave Jesus alone!” video.
[re=598720]Autoo[/re]: [re=598723]Kodos[/re]: What the fuck is “yall” supposed to mean, anyway?
The War on Christmas started early this year.
Haha, here’s a cute shot of Jesus trying to catch that “hail Mary” pass in the endzone:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2400/2292773034_7b5f18d676.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/42613470%40N00/2292773034/&usg=__fm1_r_Y9SBd4v-HbPrpWv-CqFdk=&h=500&w=450&sz=151&hl=en&start=11&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=9ZIYz8aVORET2M:&tbnh=130&tbnw=117&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtouchdown%2Bjesus%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26tbs%3Disch:1
Tremble, JC statues throughout the world! King Herod figures if he nukes every last one of you, eventually he can stop sweatin’.
[re=598710]Chain Tattoo[/re]: Excellent.
[re=598726]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Also thou.
Wow, and “Painter of Light” Thomas Kinkade arrested for DUI on the same weekend.
Time to turn to BAAL for salvation.
I’m pretty sure God/Allah/Thor struck it down for being tacky as shit.
Hahaha, I love how Brazil, of all places, which is basically a gayer version of Mexico, still manages to have vastly less tacky six-story-tall Jesus-kitch than our Middle-America.
Huh. Suddenly, I just realized that O Christo Redentor seems to be giving the International Theological sign for “Unsportsmanlike Conduct”. Bizarre free-association on my part, or deep-seated theological message, hidden in the the Mexico of Football Jesuses (Jesii?). I leave that question for the reader to explore.
God crossed the streams.
narcissusblind@hotmail.com
[re=598734]JMP[/re]: Correctly spelled, “y’all” is a Southern US regionally popular contraction of “you all” which means exactly the same thing as “you” in most cases.
It’s like cockney rhyming slang, only more direct and less clever.
[re=598734]JMP[/re]: “You all”. Used in a sentence; You all are a bunch of fundie hillbillies.
Taste the bite of mighty Mjöllnir, O ye god of mall thralls!
Right next door to this church is a flea market which has a neon-colored horse statue — anatomically correct — next to the freeway. Big Butter Jebus burned down, but the fluorescent horse cock survived. It’s a Flag Day miracle!
So all them dumb Ohio hillbillies that done got saved by suddenly seeing a gigantic styrofoam Jeebus on I-75… their salvation is hereby revoked.
[re=598732]4tehlulz[/re]: The Flying Spaghetti Monster, on the other hand….
[re=598745]Autoo[/re]: And which when said makes my ears bleed, but seen on screen is even worse; and that’s with the apostrophe. Really, are people who type that proud of being inbred hicks and want to show it off?
Besides, the correct plural for you is youse.
[re=598713]PsycGirl[/re]: I like the idea of God giving us a sighn. Like he’s going to try ONE MORE TIME to get through to us, but he’s rolling his eyes as he does it and knows it’s not going to work. And then he’s going to make himself a stiff drink and watch some reruns. When your God they’re all reruns.
Thou shalt not add beans to thine chili.
Christ is resin.
And obviously quite flammable.
[re=598757]Joshua Norton[/re]: lol
The Giant Hustler Sign across the road survived too.
Wonkett, I cant believe how mean your being to the christians and faithfuls. Yall should be ashamed of yalls selves.
“Yall should be ashamed of yalls selves” might just be my favorite sentence ever.
New favorite quote:
“built by nuts, destroyed by bolts”
[re=598743]mumblyjoe[/re]: The hands are palms down, though, for unsportsmanlike conduct. The crispy Jesus needed to work on his touchdown signal, which has the arms straight up from the shoulders. Giving that sloppy of a TD signal gets you bad ratings.
Besides, everyone knows the Jesus in Brazil is bragging about this one fish he caught.
[re=598718]Bucky Katt[/re]: Nice!
[re=598754]JMP[/re]: The plural of “y’all” is “all y’alls.” This is a true fact.
Anywhoo, its clear to me this is yet another sign that God has forsaken the US, on account of the murdered fetuses and the queers running amok. You know its a historical fact, the countries that tolerate the queers, well, they go down to destruction, all through history, and it starts with lightning torching their Jebus statues.
[re=598734]JMP[/re]: it means the same thing as “youse,” as in “youse guys” or “youse people.”
[re=598710]Chain Tattoo[/re]: Yeah, Jesus is harder to kill than one of the X-Men.
Jesus struck the statute with a lightning bolt. He was trying to tell the Christians to stop the tacky public displays of his image. Christians, being Christians, will rebuild the tacky statute because they think they know Jesus better than Jesus. Allah and Buddha will laugh at Jesus because he has really stupid followers.
It openss peoples eyes
Gollum? Is that you?
Next time, these lightnings will hit people, those very bad people.
Sean
[re=598756]Capitol Hillbilly[/re]: For verily the 5 way is an abomination before the lord.
[re=598746]freakishlystrong[/re]: To be fair, in the specific fundie hillbilly dialect, “y’all” is treated as a singular, as in “Y’all’s fundie hillbillies.” See also: yinz/yunz, the Pittsburgh variant.
[re=598741]One Yield Regular[/re]: Kincaid’s also being sued by a bunch of his distributors who he apparently ripped off big time. Of course, it’s hard to feel sorry for them.
In other bad-things-to-bad-people news, which I’m surprised not to have seen here yet, it turns out we should be actually calling the KY Senate candidate former Dr. Rand Paul: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/06/rand-paul-not-really-a-doctor-like-in-the-board-certified-sense.html
[re=598745]Autoo[/re]: Y’all or “you all” ALWAYS refers to “you” in the plural sense. It never refers to one person. The inclusive plural “you” is “all y’all” (all (and every single one) of you).
Y’all has gained national usage over the past few decades because African-Americans brought it with them when they migrated out of the South, and non-Southern, non-black kids have picked it up from black, rock and hip-hop musicians (the way “reefer,” “cool,” etc. migrated from jazz musicians).
Oh, and please don’t spell it “ya’ll” like some kind of ignert Texas fuck. It’s not short for “ya will.”
god has a sense of humor that the christians will never understand.
[re=598765]Prommie[/re]: Y’all by definition is plural. It is a common belief that y’all can be singular, but this is a rumor much like snipe hunting.
Next time the lightning will strike, it will hit people, very bad people.
Sean
[re=598734]JMP[/re]: Admittedly “y’all” slips into my speech sometimes as a result of places I’ve lived in my life, and people who I’ve lived with. Actually using the term “y’all” in written form is goddamn moronic.
I challenge the alleged magic Jesus in the sky to prove his existence by miraculously restoring the statue in three days.
[re=598768]Balls![/re]: Now, Jesus only came back from the dead once, Jean Grey’s done so four or five times so far (depending on whether Hope is her reincarnated as many suspect).
What does Westboro Baptist Church think about all this?
[re=598779]seannileson[/re]: Yes, we heard that on your first blogwhoring comment. Oh Ken, we’ve got a new blogwhore here.
[re=598755]pirate king of the Jews[/re]: Southerners speak English the way we do because most of us came FROM FUCKING ENGLAND originally. Wogs, frogs and other Yankee trash who speak English (poorly and reluctantly) rather than their native gibberish shouldn’t criticize how we speak it. Just listen and learn, you wretched refuse. The earliest references to “you all” date from the early 19th century, when most of you scum were fleeing Cossacks or gnawing on blighted potatoes.
[re=598763]steverino247[/re]: Well, bragging about something at any rate.
Okay, which one of you did this’n? Because it is just a-DOR-able.
Matthew 18:6
But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Woe to you liberals who have taken prayer out of our schools resulting in weapons in their hands instead.
Woe to you who rape our children’s minds with evolution and tell them there is no god.
Who to you lawmakers who have dedicated your life to murdering babies in the name of choice.
woe to you who have taken the 10 commandments out of our court houses and giving criminals rights.
woe to the leaders of our nation that are turning their backs on our friend Israel and sympathize with terrorists.
For the LORD OUR GOD will be the judge of your sins and your lawlessness and his judgement will be swift and just.
Your own flammable Jesus. . .reach out, touch ash
[re=598781]Balls![/re]: I’ve had much the same experience. I never write “y’all,” but I can’t even get my mouth to form the words “you all” in conversation. “You all” sounds wrong to me, but looks right.
[re=598773]doxastic[/re]: Bullshit. As a person of Appalachian origin, I can definitively state that mountain people don’t really use “y’all” that much (although that’s changing because of TV). They say you uns or yuns. But when they do say “y’all,” they mean a group of people. The singular “you” is pronounced y’ or ye, e.g. “When’r'ye gon’ git married? Y’re dang nigh 15 year old.”
Time for a new bulletin board:
“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image…. And I fuckin mean it” -God
[re=598775]Lazy Media[/re]: THANK YOU.
I can assure you that no one who has watched the Charlie Weiss-coached teams at ND thinks about the famous mosaic there as “touchdown” Jesus.
Repositioning and renaming for the new millenium seems appropriate at this time.
“Stick ‘em up” Jesus?
[re=598767]slappypaddy[/re]: Unless you’re in Pittsburgh, then it’s “yinz”
This all happened because of a series of unfortunate circumstances. When Jesus made that touchdown, he had momentarily forgotten he could only score on a hail Mary pass, not a running play. God penalized him for that lapse.
[re=598795]doxastic[/re]: This whole discussion on the correct use of “Y’all” or Ya’ll” or whatever is giving me a pain on the b’alls
Someone said, “Oh great, now it’s going to be harder to give directions to Trader’s World.”
New favorite quote:
“built by nuts, destroyed by bolts”
hahahaha!
[re=598779]seannileson[/re]: suffer little children to come to wonkette, and forbid them not, for of such is the queendom of snark.
That lightning should thank the Loward it didn’t nuke Mohammed or it’d be on you-know-who’s shitlist.
Better to burn out than fade away!!
Only music can truly comment on this first day of armageddeon.
choose your poison, def leppard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_mw7rGTjpI
or neil young:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY5x8pF512k
[re=598799]Lazy Media[/re]: As person of Appalachian origins myself, I can only quote one of our culture’s most famous lyrics to counter your claim of lack of “y’alls”:
Wheere, wheere, are Y’ALL tonite?
Why’d'you leeve me here all alone?
I surched the world over, trying to find troo luv,
You met un’nuther and pffft!–you wuz gone!
[re=598745]Autoo[/re]: The plural, of course, being “all y’all.”
They should have put up a big statue of a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
[re=598793]widestanceromancer[/re]: Jesus Christ, football star, burned ’cause you were built by a retard.
[re=598787]Lazy Media[/re]: Let it be known that this rant holds the illustrious rank of FUCK YES.
[re=598784]comicbookguy[/re]: I’m going to guess “God hates Jesus”
Most non-English (i.e., unAmerican) languages have a second person plural pronoun. “Y’all” would fit the bill nicely for English. But as Americans, we value the individual above all, so only a socialist would want a second person plural pronoun in their language. Therefore, Southerners are socialists.
Re: the tragedy of the foam ‘n’ fiberglass Jesus — I don’t worry when things get hairy as long as I’ve got magnetic Mary sitting on the dashboard of my car. Also.
I just *knew* it was Zombie Jesus the entire time!! Just look at that skeleton!!
Jeebus was Cruci-fried.
Lightning rods thwart the will of God to smite those who build graven images.
[Bishop] said his wife proposed the Jesus figure as a beacon of hope and salvation, and they spent about $250,000 to finance it.
Why NOT a tacky, buttery, foam statue? That 250k wouldn’t do much good helping the people in their community!
Global warming.
Christ Fried for Thee.
Jesus Wept.
He really wept. Getting hit by lightening hurts like hell.
Today, y’alls are extra cripsy jeebus xrists.
[re=598734]JMP[/re]: Some cultures cannot tolerate an ambiguity with plural and singular second person.
I think it stems from moonshine. As in: it is very important in a group to be able distinguish whether you are inviting just your cousin Joe to help you bottle from the still tonight, or the whole church social. Making it imperative that “you need to come with me tonight” be distinguished from “y’all need to come with me tonight”. In the second case, there wouldn’t be anything to bottle.
[re=598789]mumblyjoe[/re]: Did I see trucknutz in that icon?
Would all y’all just shut up about the rules of grammar as concern the figure of speech “y’all”?
[re=598865]The Church of Realism[/re]:
Nice!
[re=598734]JMP[/re]: “You all” as in “All of you”, or as we way in Scranton-ese “Yeuse” as in “Yeuse guys, come over here for a couple two-tree minutes”
[re=598971]lizzieborden[/re]: I spent 5 minutes at work trying to mouth the proper spelling of “Youse” and I still got it wrong. Seven Butter-Jesus-Damned years of speech therapy and for WHAT, I ask youse.
As an anglophile, I much prefer the term “you lot” and the superior sense of contempt it implies.
How do yall get yalls selves dressed in the morning?
[re=598719]SayItWithWookies[/re]:
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
Yalls strip mall asphalt lots stretch far away.
Praise Him from whom electrons flow.
Proper Appalachian plural of “you” is “you’ns.”
[re=598757]Joshua Norton[/re]: You, good sir, are my hero. And people are walking past my office wondering why I’m crying.
The people who live nearby are sending prayers of thanks to Ganesha. What an eyesore!
http://tiny.cc/gpu7t
Y’all is used in the western South whereas you’all is used in the eastern South. Youins’ in the Appalachian version. Outside the South ‘you dumb asses’ or ‘you simple shits’ is appropriate.
This MC 900 ft burning foam Jesus was not too terribly far from a water tower on the Kentucky side of the OH/KY border. That water tower has emblazened on it’s side “Florence Y’all” in 15 ft tall letters. It’s their way to announce that you have indeed just entered Florence KY. Y’all.
This is just a freebie, as far as the gay agenda is concerned.
The burned out frame of that statue looks like some awful alien stick insect.
Cyberdyne Systems Model Iesu Christos-1
[re=598839]southernfried[/re]: This is what makes me so frustrated with the whole phenomenon. The stigma against “y’all,” whether deserved or not, makes it impractical as a casual collective address in professional settings. In the midwest I have the option of the gendered “you guys,” a choice I can’t endorse because of my hairy-legged feminist opinion that a collective address to a mixed group should be gender-neautral. In most cases I end up going with “folks,” and feeling like a doubchebag.
[re=598955]steverino247[/re]: It’s great, because if you think it’s blasphemous, it’s really your fault, for thinking such dirty sinful thoughts that you’d see that in a religous icon.
Honestly, the thing that offends me about it is that it’s glaringly inaccurate on one detail. Wasn’t Jesus supposed to be King of the Jews?
This could be the sig for every Evangelical Web post in America:
“I am a Christian. And I take to offense half the comments that are on here. Yall should be ashamed of yalls selves.”
Y’all is the American equivalent of the French vous – a polite/pluralizated version of “you.” Hillbilly rednecks like to say y’all because they are huge francophiles.
This happened in my boyfriend’s hometown. Jesus is punishing them for raising a ghey.
[re=598787]Lazy Media[/re]: And how did your darkies pronounce y’all?
[re=598787]Lazy Media[/re]: I reckon it’s time for yall to take some anger management classes.
[re=599114]Beetletheknee[/re]: Thank you very much for your comment. It’s really amazing how much people like to assume their superiority from the construal of a socially-acceptable definition of “proper” language, without any consideration as to how “proper” language can be and is used as a tool of elite opinion to denigrate, control, and frustrate the aspirations of others — in this case, you highlight the way it’s “acceptable” to use gender-exclusive language, but “unacceptable” to use a second-person plural form of “you” simply because it is associated with people current dominant elites do not consider “intelligent.”
I say this all, of course, as an effete liberal gay feminist, who finds Sarah Palin repugnant and agrees that a great many people who say “y’all” are, in fact, unintelligent and ignorant. But conflating that ignorance with a verbal structure they use regularly is, to put it bluntly, moronic. To they extent that they use it unreflectively, it may well be an aspect of their lack of self-reflection and intelligence. But it is entirely possible — and indeed, probable — that most of the commenters on this site conflating a verbal structure with ignorance have given no deeper contemplation to their own vernacular.
In other words, y’all ain’t quite as different from those’uns as youse think, compadres.
As usual, southerners who try to tell the rest of us that we’re wrong about our own language are grammatically and historically wrong. I know these people don’t have a collective clue about anything that’s happened in the world outside the 1860-1865 Civil War window, but come on, at least try not to look like such hillbillies.
English had a second person singular pronoun, it was “thou.” “You” was the plural. Saying “you all” is as stupid as saying the plural for mouse is “mices.” “You” is already plural!
And on a religious note, this is just another in a long series of signs from heaven that the gods are not pleased with the Christians. Remember in 2000 when the gods destroyed those two churches on Easter Sunday? What about the star in the horrifically violent “Passion of the Christ” being struck by lightening while filming? And does anybody remember that the little Italian town it was filmed in (apparently Jerusalem was too “Jewish” for Mel Gibson) was punished by a plague of locusts the year the film was released? How is it that the same people who believe Jesus helps them win high school football games think that lightening strikes and plagues of locusts are “natural events?”
Shango angry. Very, very angry. Plenty bad juju for all of the oibos in Oibohio.
[re=599053]ArugulaTeleprompterz[/re]: You live in Kentucky? Can you tell what all the fuss is about regarding Kentucky Jelly? I see ads for it all over and the couple of times I put some on my toast it tasted terrible.
[re=599238]Starrigavan[/re]: I hardly see as how the prevalence of a second person singular “thou” and a second person plural “you” in England justifies the implications of your claim. Certainly, you might be correct in that “southerners who try to tell the rest of us that we’re wrong about our own language are grammatically and historically wrong.”
But the corollary assumption is that you are, in fact, right about your language. By your own admission, English had a structure of difference in its second person plural and singular pronouns. But do thou goest about speaking with thous and thees dripping of thy tongue when thy speak to thy friends in the singular form? Hardly.
In other words, the vernacular dialect of English YOU use is different from the English YOU cite as a source of authority for your claim. That Southern English is also different from that English is hardly commentable, and to use the fact as an excuse for denigrating an entire region and culture on the basis of its divergence from “proper English standards,” whatever that means, is arbitrary, self-serving, and frankly indefensible.
Yall dont seem to care about the fact that Bishop and his wife paid alot of money to have that statue made.
What about all the poor people who’ve had to pay exorbinant speeding tickets because of that monstrosity?!?! You’re driving down to Cincinnatti (probably just passing through, if you’re lucky), and all of a sudden you see a six-story Jesus torso sticking out of the ground. The natural reaction is a mixture of horror and disbelief which distracts you from looking out for cops (and you ARE speeding, as this is Klan country, which, while not as boring as driving to Cleveland, is still pretty unpleasant). The cops know all this, of course, and sit waiting for you.
A tragedy, y’all say? Y’all are wrong. This is justice.
[re=599248]Zorg[/re]: I used to live in Kentucky. All the fights over the proper use of y’all made me leave. I still enjoy a toasted english muffin with a dollop of KY jelly, though.
Any truth to the rumor that George W. Bush was seen leaving the scene after loading a flamethrower into his Bronco?
[re=599250]Tolkienista[/re]: The snark in me forces me to respond. It would be “But doest thou go about speaking…”
“You” is a plural form. It has become the standard second person singular pronoun, but it’s origin and grammatical form is still plural. We say “you are” and not “you is.” Just as “mice” doesn’t need a final ‘s’ to make it plural, you doesn’t need the added ‘all.’ Yes, “you all” is adorable when spoken by a doe eyed, strapping young Atlantan gentleman, but when used in writing responses to internet posts it is obviously an affectation used solely to establish your Real American bona fides over anyone else’s. It is only a matter of time before Palin starts faking it too.
And who needs to use “proper English standards” to denigrate the south? I figured slavery, treason, the Civil War, segregation, George W Bush, all of the politicians in South Carolina, and the entire state of Texas are all doing enough to denigrate the south without any mention of “proper English” anything.
[re=599248]Zorg[/re]: you’re supposed to put it on your hot dog, kind of like mustard.
[re=598755]pirate king of the Jews[/re]: you would have figured when he knocked the columbia (“the feminine personification of the United States of America”) out of the sky over the president’s native state on the eve of the president’s naive and illegal invasion of that country way the hell over there somewhere where civilization began and a feller named abram once had himself a hovel, all the oh-so-holy and god-a’fearin’ people of the USA would have taken the hint that maybe the mandate of heaven had been lost regarding that matter, but we are nothing if not thick as a brick and stiff-necked to boot. all these clever little tricks such as falling spaceships and botched illegal wars and financial collapses and exploding offshore oil platforms and lightning striking flammable statues (a trite trick any third-rate god could turn) are clearly not the wallop of a dope-slap that’s going to be necessary to get our attention.
[re=599235]Tolkienista[/re]: Pretty much the definition of worthy of contempt is a person who is so clearly allergic apostrophes:
okayy look..they arent downing anyones religion or anything. they are talking about something horrible that happened. and its wrong for yall to criticize people. and Ed you are right God is Love but that doesnt mean that people cant make a statue of Jesus. You dont know how many people could have gotten saved because of that statue. That statue is a symbol to people. It openss peoples eyes and lets them know they can still be saved and go to Heaven with their Lord and Savior. I am a Christian. And I take to offense half the comments that are on here. Yall should be ashamed of yalls selves. And just so you know before God will forgive you, you must forgive yourself of your wrongdoing. And what yall put on here is wrong. Yall dont seem to care about the fact that Bishop and his wife paid alot of money to have that statue made. Yall just care about criticizing people and putting down people. Yall should care about what happened and feel sorry for them. But yall dont and that is just plain rude. And Jenny I agree with you 100 percent
[re=599336]slappypaddy[/re]: I just tried that, but the hot dog just keeps slipping out of my buns.
[re=599045]chascates[/re]: The “Florence Y’all” watertower was originally intended as a temporary measure while the adjacent Florence Mall was under construction – it may even have been a gag by the construction company, which would later return to change the Y into an M. But people liked it so much, they left it as is. I remember driving past it as a kid.
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