It's much harder to molest your choir boys in a crystal church.

how many meals/medical supplies/clothes could $57M buy?

ginandbacon: Are there enough Catholics in Orange County to fill that thing?


Enough holes to fill the Albert Hall!

oldfarthenry: Is that the one Homer Simpson dragged his naked ass across while being pulled by a hot air balloon?

Eyes on the floor. Always on God's floor.

As an ex-Catholic, I give you a +1 subster

/Also, you're going to hell. The nuns in my head told me.

Subby, you have my compliments on a finely crafted headline.

ultraholland: how many meals/medical supplies/clothes could $57M buy?

Agrees.

ultraholland: how many meals/medical supplies/clothes could $57M buy?

ultraholland: how many meals/medical supplies/clothes could $57M buy?

I know this will stun you but while religions do charitable works, that is not all they do.

I just hope they post the video of exorcising the place.

Please use the correct name: "The Robert Schuller Memorial to God"

I think I know why business went downhill at the Crystal Cathedral in the past few years:

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There's been a few suicides in that building since then, but I'm sure the Catholics will be good enough to remind everyone that anyone who commits suicide aren't saved.

ultraholland: how many meals/medical supplies/clothes could $57M buy?

Shhhh. That sounds like something Jesus would do.

/I used to be Irish-Catholic, now I'm and American..
//man I miss Carlin. :(

please, someone post the pic of homers ass squeaking across the glass cathedral.

The renovations include enlarging the glory holes in the confessionals.

My father-in-law insisted on going to Mass when visiting, so I figured we might as well check out the Co-Cathedral in downtown Houston.

Could have fed a lot of poor people with the money it took to build that thing...

halfof33: I know this will stun you but while religions do charitable works, that is not all they do.

Oh, I know. They also do things like encourage people in areas with extremely high rates of HIV to not use condoms, on top of not fulfilling charitable obligations. They're a busy bunch.

I would love to know the value of all of the real estate, gold priceless art, etc the church has sponged up over the last 2000 years. I always envision the whole of Vatican City sitting atop a Scrooge McDuck style money bin.

I've always been sure that Christ would be pleased by multi-million dollar palaces in His name. He was all about the bling, yo.

God Is My Co-Pirate: oldfarthenry: Is that the one Homer Simpson dragged his naked ass across while being pulled by a hot air balloon?

Eyes on the floor. Always on God's floor.

ultraholland: Oh, I know. They also do things like encourage people in areas with extremely high rates of HIV to not use condoms, on top of not fulfilling charitable obligations. They're a busy bunch.

Remember. Abstaining from sex is the best way to keep from catching HIV. But if you DO catch HIV, you can get rid of it by having sex with a virgin.

/yes, people really believe that.

halfof33: ultraholland: how many meals/medical supplies/clothes could $57M buy?

I know this will stun you but while religions do charitable works, that is not all they do.

Yes, they also do other wonderful things with their money, like shuffling pedophilic priests around, funding anti-gay marriage movements, and encouraging Africans to avoid condoms so they won't get AIDS.

So where's that charitable work you mentioned?

Philip Johnson was famously as queer as a three dollar bill, not that there's anything wrong with that. I wonder if Schuller knew this when he hired Johnson to design the Cathedral. If he did, how did reconcile that lifestyle with the Biblical teachings alleged to tell us homosexuality is an abomination? Was Schuller star struck by getting a genius like Johnson to work for him?

My mother adored Schuller and sent him money for the Cathedral - money I should have inherited. I used to tweak her about how the building contained secret homosexual message in its design.

ultraholland: on top of not fulfilling charitable obligations

On top of what? I'm sorry, did you say that they are not fulfilling their charitable obligations? Well, you seem to have jumped to quite a conclusion there!

That's cool, it is a Catholic thread on fark, it is like a Klan convention after all.

GAT_00: ultraholland: how many meals/medical supplies/clothes could $57M buy?

Woah now, a church helping people? WTF are you on?

LMMFAO....thanks for that, you are a scholar and a gentleman.

kevinatilusa: ultraholland: how many meals/medical supplies/clothes could $57M buy?

Agrees.

The Church is not Christ.

/ex-catholic
//every RC i've talked to is pissed off at this acquisition, 570M could buy5.7 Billion pounds of food according to the collection for the poor each weak at church.

halfof33: ultraholland: on top of not fulfilling charitable obligations

On top of what? I'm sorry, did you say that they are not fulfilling their charitable obligations? Well, you seem to have jumped to quite a conclusion there!

That's cool, it is a Catholic thread on fark, it is like a Klan convention after all.

Yes. Obligations. To be charitable and good to your fellow man.

You, that whole thing Jesus talked about, at length?

How about 'people shouldn't throw stones

It's just bad behavior

illicit: So where's that charitable work you mentioned?

Oh, right here:

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It is Fifth on the list.

I'm surprised you hadn't heard of it?

Thats cool, niether has the Westboro Baptists.

$57 mil could resurrect a lot of fig trees.

halfof33: ultraholland: how many meals/medical supplies/clothes could $57M buy?

I know this will stun you but while religions do charitable works, that is not all they do.

Yeah, they also buy extravagant bullshiat and rape children.

SageC: I think I know why business went downhill at the Crystal Cathedral in the past few years:

Link (new window)

There's been a few suicides in that building since then, but I'm sure the Catholics will be good enough to remind everyone that anyone who commits suicide aren't saved.


So, what will the Catholic Church do with a massive, see-through cathedral?




/Obvious

It is nice to know that a non-Christian group is purchasing the church and plans to keep it relatively unmolested in their converting it to a place of pagan worship.

illicit: You, that whole thing Jesus talked about, at length?

Yeah, Catholic Charities, fifth largest charity in the Country?

Doesn't include Catholic Hospital Systems, individual Religious Orders, and several others.

Anyway, you were all lecturing us on Charity? Do continue.

halfof33: illicit: So where's that charitable work you mentioned?

Oh, right here:

Link (new window)

It is Fifth on the list.

I'm surprised you hadn't heard of it?

Thats cool, niether has the Westboro Baptists.

With as much money as the Church makes, they should be #1, and not any lower.

Jesus Christ wasn't big on the whole "worldly possessions" thing. Funny how much of what their founder taught was quickly lost on them.

People need to stop living for a life that they think exists and start living a life they know exists.

illicit:
With as much money as the Church makes, they should be #1, and not any lower.

Jesus Christ wasn't big on the whole "worldly possessions" thing. Funny how much of what their founder taught was quickly lost on them.

So they SHOULD be doing better.

Hey, here is another link, why don't you go down and tell them they ain't doing enough and that they are not following "their founder"!

Link (new window)

halfof33: That's cool, it is a Catholic thread on fark, it is like a Klan convention after all.

You want us to be nice to an organization that covers up and enables child rape?

Just a few more Catholics not pulling their weight!

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they probably won't have a Chapter at the new Church, right guys?