Posted on 06/15/2010 6:02:55 AM PDT by Blogger
MONROE, Ohio --
A landmark along Interstate 75 was destroyed during severe thunderstorms Monday night.
Monroe police dispatchers told News 5 a bolt of lightning struck the Kings of Kings statue at the Solid Rock Church, catching it on fire.
Dozens of viewers called and e-mailed to report that they also saw the statue ablaze on Monday night. The first callers said the statue's right hand was on fire, but the fire quickly spread.
Several fire companies were called to the scene, but could not prevent the statue from being burned down to its metal skeleton. An amphitheater behind the statue also suffered damage.
The church building itself was not damaged. No injuries were reported.
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Photos at the link.
No graven images allowed...
But thank God indeed that no one was hurt.
No wood / styrofoam / fiberglass / resin on a steel frame statues allowed................
wonder if there are any pics of people making an M, C, and A...
Ping for later
I don’t blame the Big Guy for taking it out. It was pretty d*mn ugly!
Chatting with my Ohio daughter my first thought was that the strike was long overdue, my second thought was that anything that brings people closer to their Creator is a good thing.
Maybe a lesson here is we can better understand believers that consider all such depictions disrespectful.
“No graven images allowed...”
That might be the message. Don’t forget about “you shall have no other gods before me”!
next time use marble...
That may be the message being sent, but I tend to think the real message was 'next time use lightning rods'.
The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn’t leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether—Well, you’d think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.
- “The Weather,” Mark Twain’s Speeches
Amazing that it happened on the 2nd day of the Jewish month of Tammuz. Before Christianity came along there was a trinity of gods that people worshiped. Their names were Nimrod, Semiramis (Nimrod’s wife), and their son Tammuz.
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