ALL PIECES CHURCH

… let’s bend and pick up the wreckage, on Lewis street, Minersville, PA, (near-by rear “All Pieces Church”…)

… let’s gather together these pieces, so as to build anew…(all the wretched, church squatters, taggers, street sleepers first concerned ?)

…and … let’s open up this “garage” door… For once, let’s start for a “merry” ride in a New Church …

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francisbatt

If you tell me that you honestly believe the earth is flat, I will mock your silly idea that is quite obviously irrational and wrong.

If you tell me that you honestly believe the earth is a cube that rotates four times in a day, I will mock your silly idea that is quite obviously irrational and wrong.

If you tell me that I better not pout, cry, or shout because you honestly believe some invisible, intangible superman watches me when I am sleeping and when I’m awake and knows if I’ve been bad or good, and will give me presents if he likes what he sees but will barbecue me forever if he doesn’t like what he sees, I will mock your silly idea that is quite obviously irrational and wrong.

If you tell me that you honestly believe Jesus came to you in the potato salad in your refrigerator, I will not only mock your silly, irrational idea, I will suggest you seek professional medical help.

The real issue is that the irrational ideas of the benighted are simply not respectable and should not be respected. It’s not just a matter of shouting down those who would restrict freedoms based on those ideas. And the mocking DOES work… if it didn’t, I don’t think you’d see so much pressure to suppress the mocking. What the benighted want is for everyone else to shut up and go away. That’s their vision of “respect”.

I used to amuse myself with our cats and the reflection of light from my watch face. Cats are convinced that anything small that moves away from them is prey. Some people are convinced that anything that looks vaguely like a religious icon is a miraculous sign.

You could probably make a lot of money sorting broken rocks for suitably “iconic” shapes. Write up a shape recognition program and scan the waste flow from a mining operation, perhaps? This would provide a revenue stream and also, eventually, people will come to realise that this stuff isn’t particularly miraculous.