Signs of Divine Displeasure

We Christians sometimes joke that if some questionable activity of ours was truly sinful, then God would strike us with lightening from heaven. But what in the world do we say to someone who actually was struck by lightening while doing a sinful deed, and yet continued doing that deed?


You know I got struck by lightning.

You got struck by lightning?
Oh, yeah. We were shooting the Sermon on the Mount. About four seconds before it happened it was quiet, and then it was like someone slapped my ears. I had seven or eight seconds of, like, a pink, fuzzy color, and people started screaming. They said I had fire on the left side of my head and light around my body. All I can tell you is that I looked like I went to Don King's hairstylist.

Did it occur to you that if you're playing Christ and you get struck by lightning, maybe
[Laughs, then, as if speaking to God:] "Didn't like that take, huh?"