Penalty!

You probably know what's coming.

I mean, ouch.

Those of you who follow me on twitter and facebook have probably already gotten a textfull of my opinions on this.

Psalm 78:58
For they provoked Him with their high places
And aroused His jealousy with their graven images.

So yeah, the bible talks a lot about graven images, things of great wealth made of gold and silver and whatnot. While Touchdown Jesus may not have been made of gold but rather highly flammable material such as styrofoam, it was a 'goldly' venture reportedly costing a whopping $250,000.

Jokes aside, Touchdown Jesus always bothered me. Just like that "HELL IS REAL" sign on I-71, or Fred Phelps (the godhatesfags.com guy), or the whole name-it-claim-it health and wealth movement. I've dissected these kinds of issues time and time again in my journey as a post-Christianity believer in Jesus, and always come to the same conclusion...

Missing the mark people.

So, while I'm tempted to make a bunch of jokes about Touchdown Jesus, I'm actually kind of smirking inside. Why? Because it seems appropriate that God might use lightning to destroy something that puts a foul odor in the noses of many people, atheists and Christians alike.

The really sad part, folks, is that Solid Rock Church will probably take an insurance claim and rebuild it. (You know, rather than injecting that money into community education programs, helping the homeless to find jobs, or cleaning up the gulf coast.) Only this time it will probably cost even more money, because well, we wouldn't want to make it out of the same, cheap, flammable material. No, we're going to want to make it out of a stronger, sturdier material, so that God can't smite it a second time.

Oh wait, we still have tornados and stuff. Cool. (Bruce Willis just mentioned meteors over my shoulder, how could I forget??)

Anyway, that's my bitter post-Christianity viewpoint of Touchdown Jesus' demise. Can anyone say "INTERCEPTION!"?

Wahh waaahhhhh.