Ugh....Spent 3 hours in a church yesterday

[Minimalist]

The Phoenix Symphony did Handel's Messiah in a church. I felt the urge to take a shower when I got home.

On the plus side....it was amusing to see all the pagan decorations sprinkled around the place by the pious fools.

And least the performance was excellent.

[rjh4 is back]

The Phoenix Symphony did Handel's Messiah in a church. I felt the urge to take a shower when I got home.

On the plus side....it was amusing to see all the pagan decorations sprinkled around the place by the pious fools.

And least the performance was excellent.

Why did you go?

[Skipper]

The Phoenix Symphony did Handel's Messiah in a church. I felt the urge to take a shower when I got home.

On the plus side....it was amusing to see all the pagan decorations sprinkled around the place by the pious fools.

And least the performance was excellent.

Why did you go?

"The Phoenix Symphony did Handel's Messiah in a church."

[Minimalist]

The Phoenix Symphony did Handel's Messiah in a church. I felt the urge to take a shower when I got home.

On the plus side....it was amusing to see all the pagan decorations sprinkled around the place by the pious fools.

And least the performance was excellent.

Why did you go?

Because the work is a triumph of Western musical expression....even if the story is bullshit.

[DeistPaladin]

The Phoenix Symphony did Handel's Messiah in a church. I felt the urge to take a shower when I got home.

I love Handel's Messiah. I also love the beauty of the Greek Parthenon. It doesn't mean I think Athena is real or that she was born out of the skull of Zeus.

Appreciation of religious art =/= religious belief

[Welsh cake]

Oh geez, you're either passionate about choral music or a glutton for punishment Minimalist, either way it was three hours too long.

What's next on your agenda? Paper cutting yourself with the Bible over and over? Opening the door to Jehovah's Witnesses on Christmas Day?

[thesummerqueen]

The Phoenix Symphony did Handel's Messiah in a church. I felt the urge to take a shower when I got home.

On the plus side....it was amusing to see all the pagan decorations sprinkled around the place by the pious fools.

And least the performance was excellent.

Why did you go?

Same reason I plan to go to the Sistine Chapel.

[rjh4 is back]

The Phoenix Symphony did Handel's Messiah in a church. I felt the urge to take a shower when I got home.

On the plus side....it was amusing to see all the pagan decorations sprinkled around the place by the pious fools.

And least the performance was excellent.

Why did you go?

Same reason I plan to go to the Sistine Chapel.

Really? I did not know that the Sistine Chapel was "a triumph of Western musical expression". Hmm. You learn something new every day.

By the way, folks, my question was just one of curiosity. It was not filled with some hidden agenda. You may think the answer was obvious, e.g., to hear excellent music. But to me it was not obvious as I would not go somewhere to hear excellent music if I knew I would come home feeling like I had to take a shower, as Min put it. Hence, I thought I would ask to get his perspective about things.

[thesummerqueen]

Really? I did not know that the Sistine Chapel was "a triumph of Western musical expression". Hmm. You learn something new every day.

I meant why anyone would go into a church (and deal with the resulting revulsion) to experience art of some sort that was of the religious persuasion.

I figured Min would probably agree, as some of the most fantastic works of art the Renaissance was capable of producing are housed in Rome, seat of his unholiness the Nazi pope...who apparently defends pedophilia. I'd love to visit Rome, but I'd have to bleach my entire body afterwards. It'd be worth it for art and architecture though.

[rjh4 is back]

Really? I did not know that the Sistine Chapel was "a triumph of Western musical expression". Hmm. You learn something new every day.

I meant why anyone would go into a church (and deal with the resulting revulsion) to experience art of some sort that was of the religious persuasion.

I figured Min would probably agree, as some of the most fantastic works of art the Renaissance was capable of producing are housed in Rome, seat of his unholiness the Nazi pope...who apparently defends pedophilia. I'd love to visit Rome, but I'd have to bleach my entire body afterwards. It'd be worth it for art and architecture though.

You do know I was trying to be funny in the paragraph of mine you quoted, don't you?