Tweet of the Day, You Will Not Make It To The End Without Losing It edition.

Even if you’re a Catholic. Especially if you’re a Catholic, honestly. Because many of us have been there, and thinking If we make sure to get everybody out first, surely God will forgive us. There’s no way He can approve of this architectural monstrosity…

6 thoughts on “Tweet of the Day, You Will Not Make It To The End Without Losing It edition.”

  1. They do inspire prayer in their own way: “Dear Lord, What were they thinking?!?”
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    Fire of the Holy Spirit indeed…

  2. I can spot 1970s Catholic architecture .. it’s kind of useful, if the church looks like the architect was hallucinating, it’s probably Catholic….
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    I prefer the Episcopalian pseudo-fortress architecture from the same era, but that’s just personal preference.
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    I also respect both groups for supporting architects … even if it sometimes resulted in seriously weird buildings. Way better than cookie-cutter white clapboard Baptist boxes or may-as-well-be-an-office-building Methodists.
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    Mew
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    p.s. props to the U.U.s for their commitment to mad gothic designs; not as pretty as the Episcopalians, but cool.

  3. That last one, plane-boat. I liked that one – playground of the Holy Ghost.

  4. I’ve moved around alot, so I’ve seen my fair share of ugly churches, my stand outs:
    1) Sterling Hts MI: Looks like a factory with a cross on top. (Classic 70s energy crisis, no windows)
    2) Naperville IL: Saucer section of the Enterprise, just missing the warp cores.
    3) Norton Shores MI: Giant cement ark that gives you vertigo when inside looking towards the alter. We actually stopped going to the that one, the towering cement walls gave my wife panic attacks.

  5. Odd they left out the semi-new Cathedral in downtown Los Angeles http://www.olacathedral.org . It’s seriously a case of what are they thinking of. Of course, rich influential Los Angeles Catholics already bought the crypt space underneath the place for their semi-eternal rest.

  6. The professor who designed that Brutalist pile needs a lengthy interrogation by the Holy Office, after which we can weld him up and give him a touching funeral. I’m thinking immolation in the burning pile of the cathedral would be apropos…and the crypts would still be intact for the donors! :v

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