TET: With Great Power & All That Jazz

[Hurdergaryp]

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This makes me lose even more faith in modern church architecture...

[Dylar]

This makes me lose even more faith in modern church architecture...

[Stagnant Axon Terminal]

FINALLY finished this lineart. I've been working on it all day.

[Heloin]

God's personal outhouse?

When God's gotta go he's gotta go.

[Grenartia]

Fucking gaudy and ostentatious.

[Hurdergaryp]

FINALLY finished this lineart. I've been working on it all day.

Nice, thanks for sharing.

[Stagnant Axon Terminal]

FINALLY finished this lineart. I've been working on it all day.

Nice, thanks for sharing.

idk if that was sincere or not
but im going to assume so

[Dylar]

Fucking gaudy and ostentatious.

[Kannap]

Fucking gaudy and ostentatious.

^this

[Kannap]

Fucking gaudy and ostentatious.

[Dylar]

It'd be better if there was a tabernacle, at least a couple paintings of Christ and stained glass windows of Saints

[Ethel mermania]

I thought that was 33 Thompson street in the city. The att long lines building. It was built to withstand a nuclear attack, during the cold war it literally was ground zero.

Thomas street. Place I am talking about is in New Jersey.

Thomas street is where the nsa is, yes.

What I'm getting from this is, AT&T has some weird obsession with making their important buildings really, really strange.

And their original headquarters 195 broadway has one of the most gorgeous lobbies I have ever seen

http://www.gabellinisheppard.com/archit ... 5-broadway

[Kannap]

It'd be better if there was a tabernacle, at least a couple paintings of Christ and stained glass windows of Saints

Nah, its perfect the way it is. Nothing distracting congregants from the worship service.

[Dylar]

It'd be better if there was a tabernacle, at least a couple paintings of Christ and stained glass windows of Saints

Nah, its perfect the way it is. Nothing distracting congregants from the worship service.

What you view as distracting, I view as helping the congregation worship.

[Heloin]

It'd be better if there was a tabernacle, at least a couple paintings of Christ and stained glass windows of Saints

Nah, its perfect the way it is. Nothing distracting congregants from the worship service.

Something to look at when you get bored.

[Grenartia]

Fucking gaudy and ostentatious.

I mean, that's like comparing Trump's gold-plated penthouse in his tower to a shed made out of sticks.

[Neanderthaland]

Fucking gaudy and ostentatious.

I think I bought a Toyota there once.

[Grenartia]

Honestly, it is. Elegant, yet simple. Functional, yet beautiful. It didn't cost $5 billion, and doesn't look like a renovated office (or will be renovated to become one in 5 years). Not that churches that are renovated office spaces aren't valid, they're good for congregations that cannot afford a building of their own.

[Grenartia]

Nah, its perfect the way it is. Nothing distracting congregants from the worship service.

What you view as distracting, I view as helping the congregation worship.

This is the theological equivalent of that time I tried telling my grandparents that having the TV on spongebob while I was doing my homework would help me do it better.

Nah, its perfect the way it is. Nothing distracting congregants from the worship service.

Something to look at when you get bored.

You shouldn't be searching for visual distractions in a church, you should be focusing on the message being preached, and on getting in touch with God.

[Heloin]

Something to look at when you get bored.

You shouldn't be searching for visual distractions in a church, you should be focusing on the message being preached, and on getting in touch with God.

I've never claimed to be a good Christian. I get bored.

[Dylar]

What you view as distracting, I view as helping the congregation worship.

This is the theological equivalent of that time I tried telling my grandparents that having the TV on spongebob while I was doing my homework would help me do it better.

Except that Spongebob isn't related to your homework. What would be a better equivalent is watching Dora the Explorer while working on Spanish homework. The main point of stained glass windows, statues, and paintings were to help the laity understand Scripture. You may argue that it has no place in churches right now, but I would argue that, now, it would serve to help children understand the Mass.

[Valentine Z]

I was finding an entirely different thing and lo and behold!

[Kannap]

You shouldn't be searching for visual distractions in a church, you should be focusing on the message being preached, and on getting in touch with God.

I've never claimed to be a good Christian. I get bored.

One church I went to few a couple years had these absolutely beautiful stain glassed windows and I would always get distracted by them. I can't remember a single thing that pastor ever said to me, but I remember those stained glass windows.

[Kannap]

So I've been binging Avatar the Last Airbender and finally reached Tales of Ba Sing Se and

I'm not crying, you're cr- I'M SOBBING

[Grenartia]

You shouldn't be searching for visual distractions in a church, you should be focusing on the message being preached, and on getting in touch with God.

I've never claimed to be a good Christian. I get bored.

I mean, we're all only human. I have ADHD, so trust me, I know the struggle. But still. Its one thing to not want an utterly drab worship space. Its another altogether to want the medieval equivalent of the Las Vegas Strip.