[Alberta's Child]

Comparing churches built on either side of 1964, an archaeologist a thousand years from now would have to conclude that fundamental beliefs had changed.

Comparing churches built on either side of 1964, an archaeologist a thousand years from now would conclude that one religious organization ceased to exist and was replaced by another one.

What I find interesting is that this phenomenon of silly modern churches seems to be almost exclusively a North American issue. Maybe I'm just not exposed to stories like this from other places. But everything I've read and heard about Europe suggests that the Catholic faith went right from "traditional" to non-existent without going through this intermediate fixation on a "New Age" type of worship.

Maybe that's more an indication of our monetary wealth and lack of intelligence here than anything else. Maybe we're the only people on the planet who would waste our money building idiotic churches, and then waste our time showing up on Sundays to take part in some kind of idiotic rituals inside them.

[livius]

Comparing churches built on either side of 1964, an archaeologist a thousand years from now would conclude that one religious organization ceased to exist and was replaced by another one.

Well put.