1 posted on
07/12/2014 2:56:37 PM PDT by
NYer
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2 posted on
07/12/2014 2:57:14 PM PDT by
NYer
("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
To: NYer
The first one looks like the dump Godzilla took after he ate Tokyo.
3 posted on
07/12/2014 2:59:27 PM PDT by
Argus
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4 posted on
07/12/2014 3:03:24 PM PDT by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
5 posted on
07/12/2014 3:03:27 PM PDT by
Baynative
(How much longer will the media be able to prop up this administration?)
To: NYer
The physical reflects the spiritual. Those beautiful cathedrals of yesteryear have given place to the darkened minds of popular culture which confuses bad taste and misery for beauty and happiness.
6 posted on
07/12/2014 3:03:54 PM PDT by
PapaNew
To: NYer
Solid Rock Church in Monroe, Ohio
Nondenominational
Iglesia de la Consolación in Córdoba, Spain
Roman Catholic
8 posted on
07/12/2014 3:04:39 PM PDT by
NYer
("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
To: NYer
OOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo, OOOOOGLY!!
Where is that infamous "crystal palace"??
I can't believe that they were designed and built TO BE Catholic Churches.
They belong to the Churches of Bad Taste!!
To: NYer
The first four look like Star Wars transports.
12 posted on
07/12/2014 3:06:37 PM PDT by
ConservingFreedom
(A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
To: NYer
Thanks for posting this, one or two were not so, so bad.
I am aware of the controversy over the Christian Scientist place in DC. Supposedly it’s one of the best examples of Brutalist Architecture around.
I wondered if they’d have my old church, you probably know it NYer, Epiphany on 2nd Avenue and 22nd Street.
Beautiful old church burned down in the 60s, very shortly before Christmas iirc, shocking news it made the front page of the Sunday Times, above the fold with a big picture, again iirc.
Then for a while we went to Mass in an empty store front in Stuyvesant Town, I guess it had been a Whelan’s (remember those?) because we called it St. Whelan’s.
Then they built a hideous, gray, modern monstrosity.
Ah, the sixties.....a time of ruination and destruction. No wonder people got into drugs.
17 posted on
07/12/2014 3:12:06 PM PDT by
jocon307
(These people are (some Polish word) crazy)
To: NYer
These buildings go far beyond "ugly" - they are truly hideous!
"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"
Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
21 posted on
07/12/2014 3:18:10 PM PDT by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
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You can argue the architectural merits of any of these buildings. Some are good, others, not so much.
The common denominator to most all of them though is that they are “self referential.” In my opinion this is not appropriate to a house of worship - especially a Catholic church which should be sacramental.
22 posted on
07/12/2014 3:18:46 PM PDT by
Ouchthatonehurt
("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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25 posted on
07/12/2014 3:27:55 PM PDT by
tflabo
(Truth or tryranny)
To: NYer
I kinda like the one that resembles Stonehenge, but the third one looks like it’s flipping the bird (sorry). Very unattractive.
26 posted on
07/12/2014 3:28:30 PM PDT by
Fast Moving Angel
(It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
To: NYer
The last one is labeled in what appears to be Thai. Is it a Buddhist temple, or some other church in Thailand?
27 posted on
07/12/2014 3:30:36 PM PDT by
JoeFromSidney
(Book: Resistance to Tyranny. Buy from Amazon.)
To: NYer
This one reminds me, in a very bad way, of a closed-in and jumbled Stonehenge. I'll take the original please!
28 posted on
07/12/2014 3:30:49 PM PDT by
SES1066
(Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
To: NYer
I didn’t knoe Borg was a religion.
30 posted on
07/12/2014 3:32:56 PM PDT by
CrazyIvan
(I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
To: NYer
The ugly Catholic ones are probably all post-Vatican II, when the Modernizers decided to throw away everything from the past and start over. As an example of where this notion can lead, there's a hideously "modern" Lutheran church in Finland, which dates to the independence of Finland early in the 20th Century. It's built into a hillside, and the "walls" are the stone layers in the interior of the hill. With independence, the Finns decided to go "modern" with a vengeance.
33 posted on
07/12/2014 3:35:11 PM PDT by
JoeFromSidney
(Book: Resistance to Tyranny. Buy from Amazon.)
To: NYer
All beauties compared to Mecca.
34 posted on
07/12/2014 3:35:47 PM PDT by
Dagnabitt
(Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
To: NYer
So glad I live in Manhattan where most of the churches are very old and have deep roots in European beauty. I loathe ugly churches of any denomination. And I don’t like the modern synagogues (shuls) in my neighborhood, either. I long ago gave up on the gymnasiums that pass for Protestant churches.
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Christ Lutheran Church (formerly St. Stephen's) in Chino, California. Where the cross is now on the building was once a Chi-Rho symbol. My boyhood church, I was a founding member along with the rest of my family.
38 posted on
07/12/2014 3:42:06 PM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
(The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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