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Tattoo artist: where do you want it?
Me: cracks ribcage open Fuck me up fam.
In fairness, lots of Protestant churches have very plain furnishings as a direct reaction to this kind of opulence. Personally I’m torn. Cathedrals are beautiful to visit, but I don’t think I could ever actually attend somewhere that imposing without being constantly distracted by it. Now some Evangelicals have gone full-circle with megachurches that are even worse…
It made sense centuries ago. Imagine living a simple peasant life being a dirt farmer or whatever, then entering a building full of stained glass, precious metals, and/or tile mosaics that glow in the sunlight. It would make you feel like you’d entered a divine realm. I mean, it still can, but we get pretty calloused to that stuff after being immersed in modern technology.
Don’t forget that the very idea of such extravagance is pretty antithetical to the bible AND they used funds that could have actually helped people in order to do it. Surface beauty like that is too dishonest for me to find beautiful; the best I can manage is a “neat, but I wish they hadn’t”.
Now some Evangelicals have gone full-circle with megachurches that are even worse…
A crucifix plated in gold and stained glass windows? wipes brow No, this sort of op-yulence will not do for mah church.
Only a wooden cross is what we need. Build it 100 feet tall so that it can fill up this entire AUDITORIUM um um um…
“My body is a Lutheran church” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it
The Lutheran church of Sibiu, Romania :-)
My body is a temple, everyone is welcome to worship (in) it
Anymore it’s like: Tattoos? No thanks, I’m not a dad.
I just don’t care about anything enough to have it permanently inscribed on my body.
Those images are easy removable. Tattoos are not. That’s the difference :)
Not if they’re frescos!
frescos
Amateur! Just hammer it off (seriously, they use special rubber mallets for that purpose)
Probably more destructive to the temple than tattoo removal though!
Slapping down a coat of paint on top isn’t removal, it’s a coverup. And it’s probably not as easy as you’re imagining.
Removal is removal. I don’t talk about covering up. I talk about removal. And I don’t talk about cheese. I talk about pictures, frescos, etc. No, taxes aren’t the topic I discuss. Removal is what I am talking about. Removal results in removing something, not adding and that is why I say removal while talking about removal of removable things during the removal process of removing removable things. Not adding, mind you, but removal.
Sorry for assuming you were a normal person. I hope that weird pedantic rant made you feel good, because it certainly didn’t do you any favors otherwise.
What did you expect by not willing to read the context? Nobody talked here about “covering up”. You just pulled it out out of nowhere and start arguing with that. It is not how “normal persons” behave. Go to ignore, normal person.
The difference is one is controlled by those that want to control those with the latter through guilt, shame, and fear.
Are we still talking about pictures?
