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"Pat Kiewicz" |
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21 Nov 2005 06:05:13 AM |
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Giant Jesus in the news... |
A reprint of a New York Times article in my local Sunday paper provided
some of the heartiest laughs I had in a long time.
The article [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/17/national/17statue.html]
starts out:
"MONROE, Ohio - Jesus first appears in a flash, a white statue rising from
the flat cornfields 40 miles north of Cincinnati. Then he is gone, hidden
behind a gas station.
"Drive another quarter-mile up Interstate 75, past the billboards for
Bristol's Strip Club and Trader's World Flea Market, and suddenly the
image appears in all its full dimensions. Jesus, depicted from the
waist up, is six stories tall and seems to burst from the ground, as if
he might gather a tractor-trailer in his Honda-size hands and lift it to
heaven."
The monumental statue is made of polystyrene foam skinned with
fiberglass on a steel frame. Such enduring quality! The skin is so thin
it "bends to the touch of a finger."
Later on we read:
"Some congregants say the statue keeps watch over a section of freeway
that was once among the most dangerous in Ohio. Twelve people died
along that 15-mile stretch of I-75 in the two years before the image was
erected, eight of them killed after cars jumped the median into oncoming
traffic. Since the statue went up more than two years ago, there have
been no such crossover deaths.
"'Can't too much go wrong next to a big statue of Jesus,' said one
member of the church, James Nelms, 23."
OK.
Having read that, what's your logical conclusion?
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The very next paragraph--
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" Officials at the Ohio Department of Transportation attribute the
improved safety to a $1.1-million high-tension cable that the
department built in the freeway's median about the time,
coincidentally, that the statue was erected. Cars have hit the cable
183 times since then, and in three of those cases, crashes have
occurred within three-tenths of a mile of the church."
Of course! (The Spousal Unit wondered how many of the 183 drivers
who hit the cable were distracted by the six story statue.)
Immediately after we read,
" There is also a running disagreement over the statue's name.
Postcards for sale in the church's gift shop refer to it as the King of
Kings. Many locals call it Touchdown Jesus, since, a bit like the
famed mural at the University of Notre Dame, it resembles a robed
and bearded referee signaling a score at the goal line. Others call it
Super Jesus, MC 62ft Jesus (for the technomusician of a similar name)
or simply Big J."
Which I where I started laughing and couldn't stop, especially when
the next paragraph on started with this sentence:
"The Bishops' original idea was for a sculpture of Jesus that was no larger
than life-size."
And I love the phrase used here:
" Solid Rock Church, with its atmosphere of unplanned gigantism, is
one of the few places where a 62-foot statue of Jesus could fit right in.
In March, the Bishops squeezed a 1,000-seat balcony into their worship
hall to accommodate all the new members who have joined their rapidly
growing church in the last two years.
"'God ordained all of this to happen,' Mr. Bishop said. 'I never even
wanted to be a preacher.'"
"Unplanned gigantism"! (And, quite obviously, I don't accept the rationale
behind Mr. Bishop's career direction, being an atheist and all... Nice little
business, I mean, church he's got there.)
You can find an image of Touchdown Jesus, all lit up at night (that doesn't
require registration to view) here:
http://www.pbase.com/image/40172873
--
Pat K. aa#1154 ('someplace.net' is comcast)
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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| Title: Re: Giant Jesus in the news... |
21 Nov 2005 02:33:30 PM |
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on 21 Nov 2005 in alt.atheism, dear sweet Pat Kiewicz
(kiewicz@someplace.net.net) made the light shine upon us with this:
The monumental statue is made of polystyrene foam skinned with
fiberglass on a steel frame. Such enduring quality! The skin is so
thin it "bends to the touch of a finger."
Now god can take out his own son with a hurricane...
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Uncle Vic
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
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"The world is only 5-6 thousand years old does not mean the planet
earth is only 5-6 thousand years old. There have been many worlds
created and destroyed on this planet. The creation of the planet is
described in Genesis 1. The creation of the world is described in
Genesis 2. Two different kind of creations." --Eric Brze
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Giant Jesus in the news... |
22 Nov 2005 08:41:42 PM |
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On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:33:30 -0600, Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com>
wrote:
on 21 Nov 2005 in alt.atheism, dear sweet Pat Kiewicz
(kiewicz@someplace.net.net) made the light shine upon us with this:
The monumental statue is made of polystyrene foam skinned with
fiberglass on a steel frame. Such enduring quality! The skin is so
thin it "bends to the touch of a finger."
Now god can take out his own son with a hurricane...
LOL!
TheRain
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| User: "Eris" |
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| Title: Re: Giant Jesus in the news... |
22 Nov 2005 08:52:12 PM |
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On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:41:42 -0500, wrote:
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:33:30 -0600, Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com>
wrote:
on 21 Nov 2005 in alt.atheism, dear sweet Pat Kiewicz
(kiewicz@someplace.net.net) made the light shine upon us with this:
The monumental statue is made of polystyrene foam skinned with
fiberglass on a steel frame. Such enduring quality! The skin is so
thin it "bends to the touch of a finger."
Now god can take out his own son with a hurricane...
LOL!
TheRain
The first time I saw that thing I was driving down I-75 about
midnight, I almost had and accident, I could not believe my eyes.
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| User: "Pat Kiewicz" |
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| Title: Re: Giant Jesus in the news... |
23 Nov 2005 06:53:28 AM |
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Eris said:
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:41:42 -0500, wrote:
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:33:30 -0600, Uncle Vic
<address@withheld.com>
wrote:
on 21 Nov 2005 in alt.atheism, dear sweet Pat Kiewicz
(kiewicz@someplace.net.net) made the light shine upon us with this:
The monumental statue is made of polystyrene foam skinned with
fiberglass on a steel frame. Such enduring quality! The skin is so
thin it "bends to the touch of a finger."
Now god can take out his own son with a hurricane...
LOL!
TheRain
The first time I saw that thing I was driving down I-75 about
midnight, I almost had and accident, I could not believe my eyes.
So it is indeed a good thing that the freeway median was improved...
--
Pat K. aa#1154 ('someplace.net' is comcast)
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)
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