The Giant Jesus of I-75 - Super Savior!!

[VolcanoJen]

http://www.channelcincinnati.com/news/3950572/detail.html

I AM SO LUCKY, because I only live about 10 miles from this lovely work of art! I get to see it just about every day on my I-75 trek.

The Giant Jesus of I-75 cost a mere $250,000 to erect, with the full support of The Solid Rock Church in Monroe. Guess that money wouldn't have been better spent... ummm... I dunno... feeding the hungry?

Has anyone else witnessed this... ummm... truly ugly statue? I mean, if it were a little more lifelike, or tasteful, maybe it would bother me less... :-)

[indigobusiness]

1. Lightning is bound to strike it

or a meteor will take it out.

[signmike]

14. A Meteor is kinda small...

I'd use at least a Buick Electra 225, maybe a '64 Lincoln Continental - and make sure.

It's just like, like ya know, kinda :puke:

[indigobusiness]

15. Travelling at 40,000 MPH...it's plenty big.

It's not the mass, but the motion...er velocity.

[elehhhhna]

2. reminds me the of Planet of the Apes' ending...

[For PaisAn]

5. That's the first thing I thought of

That ending with The Statue of Liberty was chilling. This is chilling & creepy.

[Ian David]

3. Something's missing

He needs to be catching a giant football.

[Warpy]

4. he's missing everything below the waist, for one thing

which makes him the perfect fundy image, I guess.

[VolcanoJen]

6. Some folks wonder when his legs will pop up...

... on the Southbound section of I-75.

:D

[AngryOldDem]

17. A la Notre Dame's Touchdown Jesus? n/t

[candy]

7. That's hysterical---never saw anything like it-----although we had a

Leaning Tower of Pizza around here.

[VolcanoJen]

8. Well, we still have a "Pizza Tower" here in Cincinnati.

Can't find any photos, but yeh, it's a big-ass Leaning Tower of Pizza.

Rumor has it that Football Hall of Famer Anthony Munoz (Bengals) once owned it. :D

[rexcat]

20. Yep...

Munoz lives here in Mason, OH. The restaurant is off of exit 19 on I-71. Munoz is one of those ultra-conservative catholic types that resemble born again repukes. My understanding is he does not own it anymore.

[intheflow]

9. So much for the commandment against idolotry.

2nd commandment:
"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments."

:eyes:

This is the argument I will use when my freeper relatives from Ohio start in on me again.

[Rick Myers]

10. Time for a new one...

...against stupidity...

Ack!

[CatholicEdHead]

37. Yep and a waste of $250,000

that money could have been much better spent elsewhere.

[frylock]

11. that crucifix isn't exactly to scale..

The Amazing Colossal Jesus.

[Algorem]

29. Jesus buried up to his belly with his toy cross.WTF?!A sign?A sign of the

ridiculous nonsensicleness of America now?"Oh Father you got me off that freaking cross and that whole bit,now deliver my giant ass from this pit so I can be on my way with my neat little toy cross.Who knows what kind of whacky shit you'll have to get me out of next?"Giant Quicksand Mini-cross Jesus?what.a.piece.of.junk.

[Lefty48197]

12. He's pleading for an end to the Bush cabal.

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[Ruffhowse]

13. looks like it's made out of paper mache. Guess they got the discount

version with no legs.

[AngryOldDem]

16. It was on MSNBC Friday afternoon

In fact, I getting ready to post the same when I saw this thread.

The anchors got a chuckle out of it.

The only saving grace (no pun intended, well, yes, pun intended) was they got the interstate wrong. They said it was on I-95. So -- East Coast corridor, get ready for a huge influx of Fundie traffic, and be prepared to explain just what you've done with that "missing" Big Honkin' Jesus!

BTW...I wonder what the mosque just down the road thinks of this.

[Eric J in MN]

18. "Thou Shalt Not Make a Graven Image"

How is that part of the Ten Commandments being interpreted these days?

Exactly what does that commandment prohibit?

[Eurobabe]

19. That's why I am moving there.

LOL. NOT!!! I about cracked up when I got a load of that! See you on 12/15 fellow Buckeyes!!

[InvisibleTouch]

21. Ugh ... I drive by that thing...

...every time I go to the flea markets. Had company from Europe visiting back in the fall, and we drove past it a couple of times. They didn't know whether to be freaked out or amused.

[Philostopher]

22. Driving back up from the family gathering on Thanksgiving ...

The Mr. and I were theorizing what kind of birdseed you'd have to shoot onto it from a cannon across the road to result in its becoming covered in a layer of goose shit. There's lotsa' Canada geese in the I-75 corridor, and anybody who has to deal with them knows they poop a turd about the size of a small house cat's, and it's green.

I think their graven image of Jesus would look really nice with goose poop running down out of its eyes like tears, but I can't imagine you could get the birdseed on it that precisely without actually going there, and I imagine they've got hella security on it.

Yeah, that drive up I-75 from Cinci is boring. We have to do something to keep ourselves entertained, since there's not much to listen to on the radio!

[mosin]

23. I see it every time...

I drive up to the gun show in Dayton. I'm sure many of my fellow gun-show attendees like it, but I just think it's hysterical. It's so gaudy and over-the-top. I don't know why they couldn't settle for the "traditional" giant interstate cross. :)

[Algorem]

24. Was Juh-ee-zuss that chunky?Looks more like Grizzly Adams.

Made of styrofoam and fiberglass?With a lighter and a video camera someone could make some real art out of it.

[Azadre]

26. I would love to see that monstrosity go down...

I forgot already the first commandment anyway.

[toughdove]

25. Thanks for the info! I couldn't figure out why

anyone would put up this giant statue of Kenny Rogers sinking in quicksand. Especially one seemingly made out of -- oleomargarine, or Crisco, or whatever it is. Polyunsaturated Ghee, maybe. . . . It sure is a hoot to drive past, though.

(BTW, this is my first DU post. What the heck, I had to start somewhere!)

[POAS]

27. welcome Toughdove.........n/t

edited for spelling

[Kukesa]

30. Welcome to DU, toughdove; you'll like it here. n/t

[gmoney]

28. Some fun photoshoppage in this thread:

http://www.randomville.com/Daily/about1387.html

[HOTLAMANCE]

31. THE GIANT JESUS

Yeah I see this on my way to Middletown, I just wondered why they chose to spend all this money on this rather that feeding homeless people or something to do with children, giving money to find a cure for aids. But hey its just a quarter of a mill

[KaliTracy]

33. According to someone I work with -- they have a home for women

who need assistance (are pregnant? I can't remember the conversation was in July....)

All I could say at the time... was that statue is HUGE.... and then she told me of all the things the church is doing....

[KaliTracy]

32. Yes... I see it every day I go to work too.... here is a pix

I have of it


Isn't there a commandment -- "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"

Oh yes -- here is some info....

" Although the Ten Commandments are held in high respect by many Christians, two of them are routinely broken by some Christian denominations -- at least if they are interpreted literally:

The prohibition against "any graven image, or any likeness of any thing...," if interpreted literally, would seem to forbid a wide range of objects, including a statue in a church, a cross, a crucifix, or even to a photograph of a person. However, many denominations do not interpret this passage in isolation or do not interpret it literally. This allows Eastern Orthodox churches to display icons, Roman Catholic churches to contains statues, and many Protestant churches to contain drawings and/or photographs."

<snip>
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_10ci.htm

By the way -- Hi! :hi:

[Dark]

34. What about the Tsunami victims?

Oh, wait, they're heathens and pagans. Never mind.

[skippythwndrdog]

35. Uh, this was WAY before the Tsunami.

Look at the date of the original post.

[MNAZ]

36. Even if you don't like the statue ...

you can't get on SR Church for not giving to the poor. Anyone with any knowledge of thier ministries know that they are know literally worldwide for thier compassion to the needy.