That sounds like something I’d like to tear down.
Holy crap. Well, maybe I shouldn’t say that or next thing you know there will be a turd temple popping up in Seattle. It’s like churches are actively trying to turn away anyone with actual morality.
If Wilde were around today, he would eviscerate them with a one-liner.
Oscar Wilde never met a boy he didn’t like. He was scum.
>>At the Oscar Wilde Temple, a religiously themed installation project by McDermott & McGough
Any taxpayer/NEA funds behind this art installation project?
They could do worse, and will.
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So the ACLU is okay with government funds for religious works as long as they are homofascist in nature.
“On your knees...”
So a Mathodist group is claiming a Catholic (Wilde converted on his death bed) as a saint?
Wilde had a deathbed conversion. He may very well be a saint, but not as the hedonists would have him be.
Methodists don’t recognize saints and I have never before heard of a Methodist house of worship calling itself a temple.
Powerful elements in the United Methodist church have been actively nurturing and supporting homosexual lifestyles and politics for at least 4 decades. Whenever possible they have destroyed ministers and many powerful Christian ministries by deceit and slander. Satan is thriving in this once devout church.
A great wit/ writer yes. But a life unbefitting sainthood or Veneration. These homosexuals are making themselves look very foolish indeed. And if their “church” allows this, they’d be well advised to find another church
Nietzsche wrote (I’m paraphrasing) that Shakespeare was a sentimental buffoon, but that he himself would rather be a buffoon than a saint. Wilde would probably have agreed.
The United Church of Christ also used a quotation from the great comedienne Gracie Allen as their official slogan, “Never place a period where God has placed a comma.”
She was Catholic (her husband was famously Jewish), not a Congregationalist/UCCer.
Wilde had one of the famous last lines ever: The wallpaper and I are having a battle. Either it has to go, or I have to go.” (IIRC)
Wilde knew what he was doing was wrong. As a consequence he was able to write about evil (The Picture of Dorian Grey) in an honest and powerful way.
As a Catholic convert, Wilde would probably get a kick out of being made a saint but I think he would have hated the low-class gay rights movement.
Upstairs, in the attic, is a picture of that chapel, which shows what it REALLY is.