RE: Decline of religion
September 20, 2024 at 3:19 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2024 at 3:20 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Why are England’s great cathedrals becoming nightclubs?
Despite widespread criticism and a petition reaching over 3,000 signatures, there was yet a further disco held at Canterbury Cathedral, on none other than the Feast of the Assumption, along with tens of other similar events across the country.
Peterborough Cathedral, the resting place of Catherine of Aragon, will be hosting not one but two club nights in November. The first event – “Ibiza Classics” – takes place on All Souls Day. You will notice they’ve now dropped the pretence of these events being “silent”.
It appears as if the powers that be have decided that the future of these ancient sacred spaces should be one of laser lights and rowdy raves.
Earlier this year, the cathedral hosted gothic rock band Corpus Delicti whose song lyrics are so vulgar they belong in Dante’s seventh circle of hell, rather than in a 15th-century cathedral.
Let’s face it, the Church of England has dwindling numbers but valuable assets, so why not cash in on these? Well, if you’re going to do that, just be honest about what you’re doing.
These old cathedrals are expensive to maintain and declining numbers of Anglican Sunday worshipers mean they are unlikely to be financially sustainable in the long term. So, a partial change of use is not entirely surprising. But, if you asked the general public to give a creative list of alternative uses for these cathedrals, I doubt many, even the ardent atheist would put nightclubs at the top of their list.
https://catholicherald.co.uk/why-werent-...ightclubs/
Despite widespread criticism and a petition reaching over 3,000 signatures, there was yet a further disco held at Canterbury Cathedral, on none other than the Feast of the Assumption, along with tens of other similar events across the country.
Peterborough Cathedral, the resting place of Catherine of Aragon, will be hosting not one but two club nights in November. The first event – “Ibiza Classics” – takes place on All Souls Day. You will notice they’ve now dropped the pretence of these events being “silent”.
It appears as if the powers that be have decided that the future of these ancient sacred spaces should be one of laser lights and rowdy raves.
Earlier this year, the cathedral hosted gothic rock band Corpus Delicti whose song lyrics are so vulgar they belong in Dante’s seventh circle of hell, rather than in a 15th-century cathedral.
Let’s face it, the Church of England has dwindling numbers but valuable assets, so why not cash in on these? Well, if you’re going to do that, just be honest about what you’re doing.
These old cathedrals are expensive to maintain and declining numbers of Anglican Sunday worshipers mean they are unlikely to be financially sustainable in the long term. So, a partial change of use is not entirely surprising. But, if you asked the general public to give a creative list of alternative uses for these cathedrals, I doubt many, even the ardent atheist would put nightclubs at the top of their list.
https://catholicherald.co.uk/why-werent-...ightclubs/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
