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[quote name='Apotheoun' date='15 October 2009 - 07:24 PM' timestamp='1255652642' post='1986169']
Wow. That looks like a Methodist Church.
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Yep. pretty much. That's kinda my point. Catholic Churches have been almost entirely protestantized. Once the tabernacle is moved out of the Church proper and the statues are all removed....it's basically a protestant church replete with golden banners and nice choral equipment.

Fortunately St. Philip installed kneelers unlike a few of the other Churches in our diocese. Funny that the GIRM says to kneel but the architecture and furniture would tell you otherwise.

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[quote name='Veridicus' date='15 October 2009 - 06:35 PM' timestamp='1255653318' post='1986179']
Yep. pretty much. That's kinda my point. Catholic Churches have been almost entirely protestantized. Once the tabernacle is moved out of the Church proper and the statues are all removed....it's basically a protestant church replete with golden banners and nice choral equipment.
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You are overlooking the importance of having a holographic risen Christ in the community worship center! :)

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[quote name='Apotheoun' date='15 October 2009 - 07:37 PM' timestamp='1255653456' post='1986181']
You are overlooking the importance of having a holographic risen Christ in the community worship center! :)
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Haha. Didn't John's Apocalypse describe a holographic Jesus and all of the spaceship-shaped Catholic Churches taking flight toward the mothership? Or was that the Book of Mormon?

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[quote name='Veridicus' date='15 October 2009 - 06:39 PM' timestamp='1255653559' post='1986184']
:blink: I wonder if heaven is beige?
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Yes, as far as the renovation team at QAS is concerned, heaven is beige, but more importantly it is holographic.

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[quote name='Apotheoun' date='15 October 2009 - 07:41 PM' timestamp='1255653710' post='1986190']
Yes, as far as the renovation team at QAS is concerned, heaven is beige, but more importantly it is holographic.
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So heaven is visible so long as the antimatter containment field is maintained? I sure hope Satan doesn't sabatoge the dilithium crystals in the warpcore or Jesus might disappear.

Holograms speak to people these days Todd. You just don't get it. Jesus is like so now. He's as hip as chipotle-flavored fast-food specials, vampire teen flicks, and remakes of 60s space fantasies. He's like all those things hybridized and wrapped in beige goodness. Only banners and holograms can contain his refulgence.

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[quote name='Veridicus' date='15 October 2009 - 09:45 PM' timestamp='1255653924' post='1986195']
Holograms speak to people these days Todd. You just don't get it. Jesus is like so now. He's as hip as chipotle-flavored fast-food specials, vampire teen flicks, and remakes of 60s space fantasies. He's like all those things hybridized and wrapped in beige goodness. Only banners and holograms can contain his refulgence.
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Phatmass Quote of the Day Award.

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[quote name='Apotheoun' date='15 October 2009 - 07:51 PM' timestamp='1255654284' post='1986202']
The best thing about the holographic risen Christ at QAS is that the cross rotates to reveal a crucifix.
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It rotates? Like on a timer? or all the time?!?!? So it's like hologram...then you blink...then crucifix....then hologram. That's trippy.

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[quote name='Brother Adam' date='15 October 2009 - 07:50 PM' timestamp='1255654216' post='1986200']
Phatmass Quote of the Day Award.
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Haha. I'd like to thank the Holographic Jesus for all his support and etherealness.

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[quote name='Veridicus' date='15 October 2009 - 06:45 PM' timestamp='1255653924' post='1986195']
Holograms speak to people these days Todd.
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Always remember the words of Capt. Picard . . . "even a holographic bullet can kill."

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[quote name='Apotheoun' date='15 October 2009 - 07:55 PM' timestamp='1255654510' post='1986206']
Always remember the words of Capt. Picard . . . "even a holographic bullet can kill."
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Indeed. Unless you're an android and then it just means some of your systems are no longer functioning within established parameters.

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What can a resurrection cross do (apart from astound people by what an oxymoron its existence is?)

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[quote name='tinytherese' date='15 October 2009 - 08:06 PM' timestamp='1255655208' post='1986213']
What can a resurrection cross do (apart from astound people by what an oxymoron its existence is?)
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A resurrection cross might actually be a more orthodox attempt at the paschal mystery than a holographic cross. According to Ratzinger's "Spirit of the Liturgy", part of the power of our iconography is its ability to draw us into the fullness of the paschal mystery with an awareness of the the suffering, death, AND resurrection of Christ. I don't like resurrection crosses, but they does sort of unite the crucifix to Easter Sunday in a way.

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