November 2, 2009

Oh, Yeah? Well, our Church is Bigger than your Church!

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“For more than 140 years, God has put First Baptist Church at the center of Dallas, the nation’s fastest-growing city in the heart of America,” Dr. Jeffress continued. “Jerry Jones recently unveiled a new $1.2 billion ‘temple to sport.’ In these tough economic times, why can’t we use our gifts to build a church building that provides a spiritual oasis and matches the splendor and majesty of God?”

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  1. Ross Bonadonna on November 2nd, 2009 at 11:57 am

    Okay, I was raised an atheist, I consider myself an agnostic, but if I were to believe in a supreme diety, I would find this question: “why can’t we use our gifts to build a church building that provides a spiritual oasis and matches the splendor and majesty of God?” so appallingly egotistical, so presumptuous, so pathetically insufficient of imagination… that well, I wouldn’t give them any money.

  2. Cindy Scroggins on November 2nd, 2009 at 12:06 pm

    Yep. Just when I think I have a handle on the whole Opulence for Jesus business, something like this comes along and knocks me down the stairs.

    If you click the picture, you’ll find some interesting comments–one being a reference to Six Flags Over Jesus!

  3. Andrew Simone on November 2nd, 2009 at 1:04 pm

    I couldn’t agree with you more, Ross.

  4. Daryl Scroggins on November 2nd, 2009 at 1:07 pm

    Yes–that was my first thought: that matches the splendor and majesty of God? I am not a believer, and a God that could be matched in splendor and majesty by a building that looks like a shopping mall would not tempt me to change that. But, then, this is the sort of place built by people who fervently believe that the outcome of a football game can be swayed by the number of people who grimace in constipated prayer that our team will win as Gawd surely wants it to….

  5. Sheila Ryan on November 2nd, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    First Baptist. Oh my soul. My sweet lord.

    They had the prime real estate back when I was a kidlet and way back before.

    Hey, wait. I thought it was them Jews s’posed to be so shrewd at business and all.

    Whoopsie! Time for a paradigm shift.

  6. Phil Bebbington on November 2nd, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    I’m seduced by this – not to the point of belief, but, seduced nevertheless! Anything that is a temple to something has my attention – not much more, but, my attention!

  7. Cindy Scroggins on November 2nd, 2009 at 2:55 pm

    It’s that purple sky of the apocalypse, Phil–it’ll get you every time.

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