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The news on NPR this morning made me bounce with glee as I drove in to work.

There is a semi-famous (or possible infamous) statue a couple of miles south of here on I-75 that is known as the Touchdown Jesus statue, because of the way that Jesus has his arms up in an “It’s good!” sort of gesture.  Whenever John and I would drive past it, we would also throw our hands up in the air and proclaim, “It’s good!”.  (The megachurch that is associated with the statue is also semi-infamous, and I have heard rumors of drug associations and money laundering, as well as other things.)

Anyway.  It seems that the Touchdown Jesus statue was struck by lightning during a storm last night and burned to the ground.  Let me just repeat that because I think that the irony is just too delicious.  A statue of Jesus was struck by lightning and burned to the ground.

Here is an article about it.

And here it is on YouTube.

I guess it went up so easily and burned so thoroughly because it was made of molded plastic and fiberglass and not (as I had assumed) concrete or something a bit more durable.

I kind of want to drive down that way now, so that I can gawk at the smoking ruins.