Jesus Has Risen!

SparkyTech

Forget Knock, Forget Medjugorje, Jesus has officaly arrived in the form of a ivy growth in Kinston USA! :eek:

Divine or just a vine? Kudzu believed to resemble Jesus
Man opts against using herbicide on the weed: 'You can't spray Jesus with Roundup'

KINSTON, N.C. — The Gospel of John quotes Jesus as saying "I am the true vine," and some folks in eastern North Carolina think they may have witnessed a literal demonstration.

A utility pole about a mile south of Kinston has attracted attention in the last week or so from people who say the kudzu clinging to it resembles the image of Jesus on the cross.

Kent Hardison goes by the pole every day on his way to work at Ma's Hotdog House, about a 90-minute drive east of Raleigh. His first reaction, common here when it comes to kudzu, was to blast it with Roundup herbicide. But then he had second thoughts, according to The Free Press of Kinston.

"I glanced at it, and it looks like Jesus," Hardison said. "I thought, 'You can't spray Jesus with Roundup.'"
Stampede!

Believers have reported seeing the face of Jesus in everything from sheet metal to a grilled cheese sandwich, but the depiction of the crucifixion is a rarer phenomenon.

"I just thought it was my imagination," Hardison said. "I thought I was crazy the first time I saw it and it resembled Jesus."
Hardison and some of his customers think the vine might be an indication that God is watching over the region.

"Maybe it's a sign of the times," Michelle Davis said. "There's been a lot going on in this area." Kudzu, originally imported from Japan decades ago to help prevent soil erosion, has enjoyed such explosive growth that it's sometimes known as "the vine that ate the South." Long a problem for foresters and farmers with large plots of land, in recent years it's been moving into cities and developed areas.

Power companies spend about $1.5 million a year fixing damaged power lines caused by kudzu growth, according to Irwin Forseth Jr., a biologist at the University of Maryland.

Hardison said that regardless of whether there's any deep meaning to the vine, kudzu makes an appropriate medium for a divine message.

"It doesn't matter what you do, it is going to be around," he said. "Ain't that a lot like Jesus?

Sykk

Reading that actually hurt.

Captain Darling

'You can't spray Jesus with Roundup.'



That story is creepy. :cool:

smash

Crazy people!

JerryHandbag

Did they use Miracle Gro?

Emiko

So Jesus is fully divine.

Case closed!

dlofnep

I think the fact that the vine pole is in a t-shape probably explains why it looks like Jesus on a cross. Silly religious people.

gbee

Just like when the sun spun in Medjugorje all those years ago, I see evil and unrest.

When the sun started spinning in Medjugorje they said it was a sign from God, I said it was an ancient sign of catastrophe, I ended up being right, they were wrong.

i make the same interpretation for this vine Jesus, he'll be cut down in his prime and become fertilizer or mulch.

bleg

It's no stump!

FatherLen

i think it looks more like morgan freeman.

Celly Smunt

that's usually what happens when you let vines grow on something shaped like a crucifix

ScumLord

That looks nothing like Jesus, the face is wrong from a start and Jesus wasn't that tall. We wouldn't be caught dead in green either, he hated that colour so much.