Who Loves Creepy Megachurches? Stadium crowds, thousands of rabid devotees, all chugging Jesus like Kool-Aid. Should you be afraid? Mark Morford for SF Chron delves into the new phenomenon of McMegaChurches.
'Should we be afraid' ? Leave it to the cynical elite architecture literatii to 'discover' a building trend years beyond its inception. Mutations (?) not really; if we wanted to be urbanistically prescient we'd buddy up with developers. Like the ubiquitous pointless sub-division bashing professors use to inoculate students in architecture school across the country, this academic tone won't chance cities for the better either.
That was the worst article I've read by any "journalist" anywhere for some time now. The entire thing is unabashedly composed from a combination of ignorance, hate, and preconception. I'm truly sorry you found that worth posting.
Perhaps if our fearless author would have actually visited one of these events, churches, etc. that he seems so bent on condemning, he'd find some actual human beings there that don't fit into his neat little box of inbred backcountry holy rollers and brainless lemmings. He might even have found some intelligent designy types there. Even homosexuals (gasp!)
But alas, he chose to wallow in hateful fantasy and stand on the outside criticizing the unknown based on knowledge gleaned from watching late night televangelists.
By ripping apart the largest of churches based on what are mostly issues of style preference, personality, and fashion, the author has shown a complete lack of substance and demonstrated little hope of ever understanding humanity apart from his narrow sphere of "who is or isn't worth caring about."
it's 'notes and errata' by a columnist!
it's not meant to be balanced & research journalism. it's meant to get a rise outta ya!
i live in a city of 450,000 (metro pop is 750,000) and there's a 10,000+ mcmega here. everyone wants to be invited to or crash the party - sheep is an apt biblical and social metaphor.
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fyi - jeannie kim's studio at columbia is doing megachurches this semester...
'Should we be afraid' ? Leave it to the cynical elite architecture literatii to 'discover' a building trend years beyond its inception. Mutations (?) not really; if we wanted to be urbanistically prescient we'd buddy up with developers. Like the ubiquitous pointless sub-division bashing professors use to inoculate students in architecture school across the country, this academic tone won't chance cities for the better either.
newold, what the f... are you talking about
That was the worst article I've read by any "journalist" anywhere for some time now. The entire thing is unabashedly composed from a combination of ignorance, hate, and preconception. I'm truly sorry you found that worth posting.
Perhaps if our fearless author would have actually visited one of these events, churches, etc. that he seems so bent on condemning, he'd find some actual human beings there that don't fit into his neat little box of inbred backcountry holy rollers and brainless lemmings. He might even have found some intelligent designy types there. Even homosexuals (gasp!)
But alas, he chose to wallow in hateful fantasy and stand on the outside criticizing the unknown based on knowledge gleaned from watching late night televangelists.
By ripping apart the largest of churches based on what are mostly issues of style preference, personality, and fashion, the author has shown a complete lack of substance and demonstrated little hope of ever understanding humanity apart from his narrow sphere of "who is or isn't worth caring about."
it's 'notes and errata' by a columnist!
it's not meant to be balanced & research journalism. it's meant to get a rise outta ya!
i live in a city of 450,000 (metro pop is 750,000) and there's a 10,000+ mcmega here. everyone wants to be invited to or crash the party - sheep is an apt biblical and social metaphor.
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