The Kaaba of Limburg.

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The german bishop of Limburg Tebartz van Elst has been in the german press recently for his luxury lifestyle. Not only does he travel on first class flights to "charity" events, but also drives a luxurious car and built his own private luxurious "palace" with private chapple and private park for an estemated 5.5 million euros.
This grotesk black thing he calles a chapple now sits in the center of the town of Limburg and because of it`s ugly black apperance was named "The Kaaba of Limburg" by the towns inhabitants.
His behavoir has been critizsed by several members of his parish but his behavior seems to be accepted by high rancing members of the catholic church.

The Kabaa of Limburg:



The Bishop of Limburg:



His luxurious recently built compound:



I recently found out that one of my favorit german press outlets also publishes in english language.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germ...51707.html

Traveling first class to the slums? That's even difficult for this status-conscious church dignitary, who holds both Lufthansa "Senator" and frequent-flyer cards, to explain. ("Senator" status with Lufthansa requires at least 100,000 annual status miles.)
The clerics also enjoyed first class service on the flight home. The total value of the ticket price and mileage upgrade for the outbound and return flights for both men: roughly €7,000 each.

Holy Hypocrisy?

Bishop Tebartz-van Elst, 52, doesn't only embrace luxury when he travels to India to visit poor children and nuns. He also puts a premium on a pleasant standard of living back home in Limburg, one that befits his status. His new, multi-million-euro bishop's residence right next to the city's cathedral is about to be finished. But the complex has sparked a mix of amazement, rage and resignation among the 600,000 Catholics in the diocese. Many cannot comprehend how they are supposed to live in want while their bishop splurges.
Tebartz-van Elst preaches to his flock to sate their thirst with water not wine. "Renewal begins where the efforts toward making due with less are made," he has instructed them. "The person of faith is dirt poor and rich in mercy," he once said in a Christmas sermon. And on the Assumption, he declared: "Whoever experiences poverty in person will discover the true greatness of God."
Meanwhile, funds are tight or insufficient across the diocese. There isn't enough money for the upkeep of churches, parishes are being consolidated and funding for Catholic day care centers is being slashed. All of this is part of the bishop's tough cost-cutting measures.

Tebartz-van Elst's predecessor, Franz Kamphaus, lived in a markedly different way. He once moved into modest lodgings in a seminary for priests so that asylum-seekers could be housed in the bishop's residence. Although the elements of the new property are built close together, the current bishop will still have plenty of space for contemplation and ostentation. Indeed, the difference between a shepherd who is close to his flock and a church dignitary enamored of his status could not be greater.
Although the cathedral lies just a short walk away, the new estate has a private bishop's chapel that looks like a jet-black monolith. The building has appalled local residents, architects and historical-preservation officials alike. People in the city have already come to disparage it as the "Kaaba of Limburg" because some think it resembles the huge sacred cubical stone structure in Mecca.

funny, how the catholic church is suprised that so manny of it`s german members leave that church.

Limburg's Catholics don't want to follow their bishop anymore. Berthold Nebgen, 69, the longest-serving acolyte at the cathedral, says the bishop himself has "lost all sense of reality." He calls the bishop's private chapel an "eyesore in the heart of the old city," thinks it is "ugly and unneeded" and says it drives "a black wedge between the diocese leadership and the population." He now says he intends to stop performing "all services for the church."
Sigrid Grabmeier, the spokeswoman for the German branch of the international We Are Church initiative, which advocates reforms in the Catholic Church's authority structures, says that the bishop "has apparently lost all sense of the external effects" of his actions.
Opinions about Tebartz-van Elst are also divided among the priests under his control. Huburtus Janssen, 74, a well-known priest in the city, say that "the church's members have a right to transparency."
Frank Speth, a local politician with the center-left Social Democratic Party and a Catholic religion teacher, has also come to sense just how heated the mood has gotten. He received a letter criticizing the diocese's "parallel world of well-filled coffers and secret assets." The very next day, his mailbox held a postcard apparently written by a fanatic supporter of the bishop. It addressed him as "little Frank" and said he wouldn't dare to criticize the Catholic Church if he belonged to a different religion -- because then he would have to "seriously worry about getting a knife between the ribs."

[Tino]

What does Kabaa mean?

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Kabaa is the big black thing in Mecca

Although the cathedral lies just a short walk away, the new estate has a private bishop's chapel that looks like a jet-black monolith. The building has appalled local residents, architects and historical-preservation officials alike. People in the city have already come to disparage it as the "Kaaba of Limburg" because some think it resembles the huge sacred cubical stone structure in Mecca.

[Drich]

Whether you believe in God or not this guy does. The God he believes in is a just God, one that will not be mocked. nor will he let someone entrusted with the care of His flock go unpunished if they are being neglegent with their responsiablities or if they mishandel what has been entrusted to them in any way. We are told those of us who take a position of leadership or responsiablity are judged twice as harshly as the average believer. If this man has abused his authority or power, rest assured he will have Hell to pay.

[Minimalist]

The God he believes in is a just God

There is precious little evidence for that either, drippy.

The sense of entitlement of these cocksuckers is truly amazing. The heads of the megachurches in the US should keep protestants from complaining too much.

[KichigaiNeko]

Actually our government is waging war on the era of entitlement right now. Might go viral ya think?

[Doubting_Thomas]

, rest assured he will have Hell to pay.

No assurance whatsoever. Hell in the sense you are saying doesn't exist, just made up by man. And even if it did exist, why should we be reassured by someone else's suffering when the truly 'just' thing would be for god to intervene in this life and stop the abuse in the first place?

Religious bollox for morons