{"id":172,"date":"2010-06-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/fun-friday-lightning-strike-turns-touchdown-jesus-into-terminator-jesus-hell-be-back.html"},"modified":"2010-06-18T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T06:00:00","slug":"fun-friday-lightning-strike-turns-touchdown-jesus-into-terminator-jesus-hell-be-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/fun-friday-lightning-strike-turns-touchdown-jesus-into-terminator-jesus-hell-be-back.html","title":{"rendered":"Fun Friday: Lightning Strike Turns ‘Touchdown Jesus’ Into ‘Terminator Jesus’ (He’ll Be Back)"},"content":{"rendered":"

No contest this time — the most entertaining religion news this week has been the saga of the Ohio church’s giant “King of Kings” statue, nicknamed “Touchdown Jesus.” The 62-foot structure was completely destroyed by a lightning strike Monday (an “act of God” that begat a thousand or so headlines<\/a>); church officials vow that he will rise again.<\/p>\n

CNN has the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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No contest this time — the most entertaining religion news this week has been the saga of the Ohio church’s giant “King of Kings” statue, nicknamed “Touchdown Jesus.” The 62-foot structure was completely destroyed by a lightning strike Monday (an “act of God” that begat a thousand or so headlines); church officials vow that he will rise again.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nFun Friday: Lightning Strike Turns 'Touchdown Jesus' Into 'Terminator Jesus' (He'll Be Back) - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/fun-friday-lightning-strike-turns-touchdown-jesus-into-terminator-jesus-hell-be-back.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fun Friday: Lightning Strike Turns 'Touchdown Jesus' Into 'Terminator Jesus' (He'll Be Back) - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"No contest this time — the most entertaining religion news this week has been the saga of the Ohio church’s giant “King of Kings” statue, nicknamed “Touchdown Jesus.” The 62-foot structure was completely destroyed by a lightning strike Monday (an “act of God” that begat a thousand or so headlines); 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