God Weighs In FINALLY: Ohio, in fact, SUCKS

(AP) MONROE, Ohio — A six-story-tall statue of Jesus Christ with his arms raised along a highway was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm Monday night and burned to the ground, police said. The "King of Kings" statue, one of southwest Ohio's most familiar landmarks, had stood since 2004 at the evangelical Solid Rock Church along Interstate 75 in Monroe, just north of Cincinnati. The lightning strike set the statue ablaze around 11:15 p.m., Monroe police dispatchers said. The sculpture, 62 feet tall and 40 feet wide at the base, showed Jesus from the torso up and was nicknamed Touchdown Jesus because of the way the arms were raised, similar to a referee signaling a touchdown. It was made of plastic foam and fiberglass over a steel frame, which is all that remained early Tuesday.

Praise Jesus! I've driven by this monstrosity more than once in my life and each time I saw it, I thought a giant Jesus was climbing out of his secret cavernous home just below the surface of Monroe, OH to come and battle some other giant type monster, like Mothra... (Can you imagine if all Godzilla movies were replaced with a giant Jesus statue? Oh man... better yet, a giant bearded Kyle Mason statue?) All in all, its nice to finally have evidence that God hated this statue too (and the people who built it? too far a reach?). How do you go in and explain to your apparently 4,000 member large congregation that you've been worshiping a false idol? "So that statue out front... yeah, well... it was actually destroyed by AN ACT OF GOD... Yep, a bolt of lightning.... Yeah, so, we won't be rebuilding Touchdown Jesus and frankly, if you see any more statues of Jesus with his arms outstretched, you should probably refrain from calling it Touchdown Jesus actually... He doesn't really like nicknames it turns out..."