It’s amazing. The fires in Gatlinburg, Tennessee have killed people and destroyed wooden homes, but our delightfully insightful and evidence based media found a concrete statue of Jesus that survived while the house around it turned to ash. Praise the lord!
Hang on a moment — it looks like the foundation of the house also survived the blaze. Praise cinderblock, the one true god!
Can we test whether CNN’s broadcasting studios will survive an inferno next?
Its a miracle! Praise be to Jeebus!
blessed be /snark
Not good sportsmanship on the part of the almighty anyway, to burn people’s house down and spare a statue. Not to mention the 11 people he murdered.
In that photo Jesus does not look to be in very good shape.
that picture reminds me of the pictures of cruciform structural members in the rubble of the Twin Towers as if in it self it had any meaning
uncle frogy
Good thing concrete is edible or else those people would have nothing of value.
This settles it: I’m tearing down my concrete apocalypse bunker, and making a new one out of Jesuses.
@7 Cuttlefish: Shouldn’t that be “Jesi”?
So it seems that the bar one must jump over to declare some event a miracle gets lower and lower with each passing year.
Hold the presses! Look to the right of J.C. What’s that I see? It’s a hubcap! It survived the inferno! Truly a miracle. It must be a sign of hope from the Holy Roadster! I’ll bet if we dig through the ashes we may find more bits and pieces of the Divine Dodge. We are truly blessed to have lived to see this day. God walks in the Smokies.
CNN quote:
hope and faith? Faith that Gawd burns innocent people out of random wrath? No. Thank. You. and may mercy be on your soul cuz god don’t give a damn himself while giving damn to everybody who prays at him.
WTF does it take to see a burned page from a storybook as a “sign of hope and faith”?
*spit*
A perfect example of Jesus as a concrete abstract. Notice, too, how the concrete statue of the invisible pink uniform didn’t survive.
Well, it looks like the Fire Chief’s exhortation to the residents of Gatlinburg to pray to br saved from the fire must’ve had some effect.
But instead of the message of the prayers being, “Jebus, save us, oh Jebus”, the message got mangled to “Jebus, save us a Jebus”. (With a Tennessee accent, you could see how that could happen, eh.)
While we’re on the subject of miracles, I’m going to predict one:
This will mean, of course, that I’m a Prophet – up there with Amos, Malachi and Jeremiah, and I demand to be beatified by the Catholic Church when my prophesy comes true.
This is my prophesy: Within two years of his passing away, Pope Benedict XVI will intercede and posthumously heal a devout believer who has an incurable illness.
I promise this will happen, and am willing to accept bets against it.
Any takers?
To make concrete burst into flame you need chlorine trifluoride, which is probably the modern equivalent of a chariot bound with iron,
Invisible pink uniform, said I, @12? Oughta be a unicorn in there, somewhere.
Behold.
Don’t blame me for the rubble, sez God,
Just thank me for the sign.
The bad stuff wot ‘appens is all down to you.
For the good bits, the credit’s all mine.
johnlee #14
I won’t bet because the odds just suck.
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Holy hubcaps! Is nobody going to take me on?
@johnlee #21:
I will. I bet you my soul to a bag of doughnuts that it never happens.
If you win, I’ll leave it to you to initiate the soul summoning ritual at a time and place of your coven’s choosing (it has intercontintental range, so it won’t matter where I am). If I win, well, we’ll sort out the delivery problem if it comes to it.
This comic very much comes to mind.
Actually, considering the intensity of the fire, floors/roof falling in during the fire, the statue is in remarkably good condition.
Regular concrete doesn’t get along very well with fire, due to the moisture present in the concrete, which tends to make concrete that’s exposed to fire crumble.
Of course, the block wall is concrete blocks and those are in even better condition than the statue.
Showing that blocks are more powerful than Jesus.
Oh, concrete WILL burn, given the right chemical. Like chlorine trifluoride, previously mentioned by @cnocspeireag #15.
From Ignition! by John Clark: