Giant Jesus: highway guardian or Christian kitsch?(IN THE BEGINNING)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: October 28, 2005 | Copyright information

In the year that "Super Savior," a 62-foot-tall statue of Jesus with upraised arms, was installed on land reclaimed from a cornfield just north of the Monroe interchange on Interstate 75, traffic fatalities on this notorious stretch of road slicing through southwestern Ohio have dropped precipitously.

Has the Styrofoam and fiberglass Christ aided road safety? That is up for debate.

"There were a whole lot of folks, when I was growing up, who used to have St. ...

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