God Hates Jesus

[Orphia Nay]

Lightning costs Rio de Janeiro's iconic Christ the Redeemer statue tip of thumb

The iconic statue of Jesus overlooking Rio de Janeiro, one of the city's most recognisable landmarks, has lost a thumb tip to lightning, local newspapers reported.

Christ the Redeemer, the giant monument and tourist magnet that looms atop nearby Mount Corcovado, was damaged in a huge storm Thursday night, O Globo newspaper reported on its website.

 

[manofthesea]

But doesn't lightning actually travel from the earth upward?
The son is signalling the father...looks east

 

[AdMan]

Reminds me of this:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/16/touchdown-jesus-statue-burns-down

God really does have something against this Jesus fellow. He must have really pissed him (sorry, Him) off.

 

[Brainache]

He'll never get a lift home now...

 

[tsig]

Reminds me of this:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/16/touchdown-jesus-statue-burns-down

God really does have something against this Jesus fellow. He must have really pissed him (sorry, Him) off.

If god tells you he loves you like a son, you wanna run and hide.

 

[tsig]

He'll never get a lift home now...

That's OK, he was in an abusive relationship with his father anyhow.

 

[Craig4]

Well, if God liked Jesus, I'd call that bit of performance art at the end a very odd piece of social interaction.

 

[steve s]

It's a miracle it wasn't completely destroyed. Praise gawd for intervening and protecting it.

 

[Orphia Nay]

It's a miracle it wasn't completely destroyed. Praise gawd for intervening and protecting it from himself.

FTFY.

 

[Frozenwolf150]

Hey, God did use Jesus as a blood sacrifice just to enable God to change a rule he made himself.

 

[Chernobyl X1]

The story would have been better if the lightning hit the middle finger. I wonder how the xians would have reacted to that.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

If you're keeping score:

 

[Chernobyl X1]

If you're keeping score:

Well Thor is the protector of mankind. We seem to need protection from this Jesus fellow.

 

[Orphia Nay]

"Buddy Christ" is just crying out to be photoshopped.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

But doesn't lightning actually travel from the earth upward?

A leader current reaches toward the sky but when the connection is made the bulk of the charge goes Earthward.

 

[Darth Rotor]

God hates Jesus

Not so fast.

Ephesians: 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

However, since God is arguably not man, you could argue that God could hate his own self if He wanted to ... and with Jesus being part of the Triune model, a bit of self loathing might be argued with success. But then, since Jesus is God is Jesus, and Jesus is doctrinally fully divine and fully human, you could get to God being himself, and thus not hating himself since himself is, or was for a while, fully human. One can get dizzy with this in a hurry.

Another way to take this would be that a message is being sent regarding graven images. Keep an eye out for the message being sent to the Virgin of Guadalupe next ...

 

[MattusMaximus]

Those folks in Rio haven't been keeping the Thor in Thursday, apparently.

 

[Manopolus]

"Buddy Christ" is just crying out to be photoshopped.

I already used him in one project:


Is he really worth another go?

(not actually one of my better efforts, BTW... although reducing the dove photo to a black silhouette was fun... err... I think it was a dove... don't remember for sure; might've been a swallow)

Maybe placed in some action with a certain Michaelangelo fresco, it could actually work.... hmmm....