[RitaOK]

“.... the smallest, most impoverished villages in Mexico had the most gilded, lavish Catholc Churches!!”

What? God’s temple should look like a protestant gymnasium?

A peruse through Leviticus 25 might concern you. God was unduly fussy? And, given the travails of the age God should command such riches for the temple?

[zerosix]

No but gilded and precious stone icons, golden chalices, etc. ordaining these sites are not necessary in a village where most of the residents have no indoor running water, no electricity, no toilets nada! Even a Protestant gymnasium would be in excess of these simple people but a galvanized metal building with open ends could certainly offer a place of worship to people who have no roofs over their own homes, sleep on dirt floors and use community ditches as toilets.

I do know all about Leviticus as well as Numbers and Deuteronomy, as well as how God describes "the" Tabernacle in the desert.

Trust me, the Ark of the Covenant, containing the stone tablets with the Law etched on them, the showbread, the Seraphim and Cherubim guarding the Ark in the Holy of Holies, resemble none of the many Cathedrals in impoverished countries around the world, not to mention the Vatican!

Certainly not when the Pope is demanding "those who have, share more of their wealth with the poor!"

It would seem that this leader, like so many liberal Marxists, proclaim "Do as I say, not as I/we do!"