Posted on 02/10/2014 8:24:34 PM PST by Epistolizer
The pediment of The Cathedral Church Of St. Paul in Boston has stood empty for 190 years, as the builders of the impressive Greek Revival structure ran out of money during the initial construction phase. It was finally completed in May of 2013, but since then it's come under fire for its unusual design, which features a backlit nautilus sculpture.
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I’m mildly curious to see the offending statue on this church from a religion no else likes anyway, but I don’t click on Huffington.
Many Italian churches built over the last 1600 or so years feature very disturbing decor pieces.
The front wall of the Sistine Chapel is a good example, including Michelangelo’s self-portrait of himself as an empty skin signifying how he felt after dealing with the church during his work on the chapel.
The good news is that none of this has the slightest thing to do with one’s salvation.
“self-portrait of himself”
Very poor and redundant writing, Sister Mary Joseph (were she still with us) would kick my butt for that one.
Rap on the knuckles! RAP! No dangling participles. No errors in sentence structure! It was rapped away.
The embrace of episcopalianism as practiced would.
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