Holy nosebleed pew, Bibleman! I found this story about Lakewood Church in today's NYT and was floored. Apparently they held their first service on Sunday in their new digs -- the former arena that once hosted the Houston Rockets (capacity 16,000). Do you think they now hang banners with the jersey numbers of the twelve apostles where once hung the retired numbers of old hoops stars?
Don't get me wrong...I am totally open to converting existing secular structures into houses of worship. A house around the corner from my childhood home was turned into a Buddhist temple a few years back, and I hear the services they hold in Union Station AMC movie theater are a lot of fun. But when you turn a stadium into a church, how do you decide who gets to sit in the luxury boxes?
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As always, you are on the pulse of America. How bout old McDonalds being turned into churches? They could somehow change the arches to a cross. Or maybe one day, Wal Marts will have a whole church section where people can pay $1.99 to enter for the daily sermon special.
Check out the communion wafers: http://www.guaposrestaurant.com/nachos.jpg
Ha! Perhaps former Taco Bells would be a good homage to Mecca.
Nachos as communion wafers?!? If it weren't so tactless, I'd say something like "cheesy Jesus"!
And if they turned Taco Bells into houses of the holy it would sure help with the catering costs of many a wedding! Instead of "chicken or fish" it would be "soft or hard" or "regular or diet". Deliciously matrimonious!
But WalMarts as churches??? Elle, you disappoint me. You know you could never shake the devil out of a WalMart!
WalMart loves Jesus...that's why they have all their stupid censorship crap with the magazines and music.
WalMart most certainly is the unholy. Just look what a simple web search dug up!
http://educate-yourself.org/lte/walmartandtargethaulingsmack16jul04.shtml
If it is on the web, it must be true!
By the way, I don't believe the part about Target being involved in shuttling drugs across this great country of ours. That would never happen. Never!
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