Someone asked me this morning what I thought of Jesus' having been struck by lightning. It's not a biblical story that I'm familiar with, so I brushed off the question. Later, however, I discovered an article on Kentucky.com:

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.

Read the full article here.

Evidently, that tornado warning we had last night led to one big casualty. Our "Big Jesus" is no more!  I can tell from the papers that many people see this as a sort of poetic justice. As for myself, I'm wondering about the message sent by folks who would spend a quarter of a million dollars on a "touchdown Jesus" when there are so many hungry and homeless people in the immediate metro area near that church. They had their reasons for doing it, I suppose.  What do you think?

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