The Glade 4.0

It's a rather large if controversial landmark on the 75 corridor in Monroe, Ohio. Personaly it always struck me as a graven image/false idol kind of thing so it's being struck by lighting is both poetic and eerie at the same time.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

They need to be ticketing all the **** rubberneckers driving by. Gawddammit....!

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

I thought you meant this "Touchdown Jesus":

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Same here. I was confused when they referenced Ohio throughout the story.

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Where's that mural? I'd heard of a Touchdown Jesus, never really thought about it, though.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

Notre Dame in South Bend Indiana.

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Ever since we first saw the one in OH, my wife & I have been calling it the Butter Jesus, because it looks like something on a enormous Thanksgiving table. A couple of years ago, we found out that Haywood Banks has a song about it called "Big Butter Jesus."

I want to know whether the artist/architech/whoever who designed it will be held responsible for not integrating a (functional?) lightning rod. This is Ohio, people! It's the tallest damn thing on the plain for miles around, and this State is no stranger to spectacular thunderstorms...

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Oh, cool, thanks.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

There is this *massive* cross somewhere in Illinois that I occasionally blow by. I call it the Jesus missile silo. Seems to me to fit the idolatry frame pretty well, too.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

I always heard this thing called the butter Jesus. Looks like an over the top butter made centerpiece for a super bowl party.

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"Consider yourself lightly; consider the world deeply." - Musashi

Yeah, that's the name popularized amongst Bob & Tom listeners by, I think, Haywood Banks? Before I heard him refer to it on the show, though, I'd always heard it locally as Touchdown Jesus. They're both apt, and so my preference for Touchdown Jesus is only a mild one.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Could that be seen from the freeway (before it burned down, of course)?

It faced the freeway. It was hard to miss. I heard they want to rebuild.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Dude wtf?

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Not only could it be seen, it was prominent.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Judge for yourself...

The marker in the link is smack dab in the reflecting pool for the statue. The base of the statue is the white roughly square shape immediately to the right of the pool.

There's a baseball diamond in the lower right corner of the map for scale.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Taken from the berm of I-75 northbound:

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

I remember driving by that church...missed my chance to see the eighth wonder by a month.