Athiests! Agnostics! It's time for you to believe!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Down on your knees, sinners, and repent! There IS a God...and, apparently, his not to crazy about nutty Christians and their vanity projects.

Jesus Star Hit by Lightning

The hunky actor who stars as Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson's controversial new movie was struck by lightning on the set. Jim Caviezel, who escaped injury, was filming The Passion Of Christ near Rome, Italy when the incident occurred. Producer Steve McEveety says, "I'm about a hundred feet away from him when I glance over and see lightning coming out of Caviezel's ears." The movie has provoked a flurry of criticism since its conception - particularly from Jewish leaders, who say it suggests Jews were responsible for Christ's death. But some Catholics who have seen the film have called it a "powerful rendering" of the hours leading up to Christ's Crucifixion.

http://www.imdb.com/PeopleNews/#6

See you in Church!

[Bereta_Eder]

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[Mercator]

It's a sign! Jim Caviezel is the new Messiah!

[SlowwHand]

WTG, Rufus. Dumbass to whole new level.

[alva]

Couldn't god have pulled one of these during the '20 or '30ties.

[Verres]

http://www.byhisgrace.com/godatwork/communion1.htm[/url]

Five years later...we lived out in the country. One August afternoon a terrible thunderstorm came up. Tornadoes are common in this area. The sky had turned lemon yellow, before I could get my laundry off the line and back into the house, the storm hit. Inside I had to rush around the house to turn off and unplug appliances. I bent over near a window to unplug the stereo. At that split second, a bolt of lightening hit the utility pole, and a leg off the bolt hit me. I was thrown back onto the floor 12 foot from the window. My nose was bloody and I had an awful headache. I got up and took my children to the next room, and tried to call the fire department, as the closet where the furance was, was on fire. The lightening had run through the house. It blew out light bulbs and popped through the plug-ins. This storm only lasted for 15 minutes, but it seemed like an hour. The bolt of lightening took the entire top of the utility pole/transformer off. We had a fried TV, and burnt walls in the closet and the furnance.

[chequita guevara]

Some people just can't take a hint

It was the second time Michelini had been hit by lightning during the shoot.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3209223.stm

[General Ludd]

I thought Mel casted himself as Jesus? Maybe he forsaw this happening and changed his mind.

[Arrian]

I smell a publicity stunt to help sell the movie... I call bull****.

-Arrian

[Elok]

Actually, according to my first-aid instructor from last year, who spent several years in hospitals, NOBODY survives getting "struck by lightning." Which really ought to be obvious-it's a bolt of plasma hotter than the surface of the sun; even if the electricity does just flow right through you like they say, a direct hit from that kind of energy should sublimate away most of the water in your body, if not reduce you to ash. People who report surviving lightning bolts are merely grazed in passing by the electrical field. The miracle is that this guy was lucky enough to be one of those people.
Also, note the case of St. Artemius, who was struck dead by lightning at the age of twelve, and whose body was later found incorrupt and possessed of healing powers. Not to mention the whole martyrs' crown. This is mostly a quirky coincidence, and in a religious sense could mean anything.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Elok
Actually, according to my first-aid instructor from last year,

He's wrong.

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Elok
This is mostly a quirky coincidence, and in a religious sense could mean anything.

It means God isnt a Christian

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Vesayen
It means God isnt a Christian

Why would God worship his own son?

[Ben Kenobi]

I would say it has more to do with how he plans to present the Passion.

Still a good laugh at Mel's expense.

[Elok]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
He's wrong.

Mmm-hmm. And how exactly DOES one survive a direct hit from that kind of energy? Forget the electricity itself. The usual story is that the current merely flows through you rather than wasting its time actually damaging you, and therefore most "lightning survivors" show signs of electrical damage in a feathery pattern along their skin. However, this damage is from electrical discharge emitted from the general area where lightning strikes. The bolt itself, like anything containing that much energy, emits an impressive amount of waste heat.

Are you suggesting that several decades of research were required to make computers like the one you're sitting at that don't melt from their own byproducts, from a relatively modest power flow, whereas a channel of energy potent enough to power a small city for half a year is conducted by plain air, and a human body, at almost perfect efficiency? Honestly...

People who are actually struck by lightning die. Survivors just catch a few traces of peripheral discharge. Common sense ought to tell you that.