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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Were this a non-confessional private school, would you feel the same way? I guess your complaint raises into question precisely what is "needed" in any venue. The link you provided is for a Christian High School, and while it is a very impressive looking facility, to me, it looks like any number of high schools in and throughout the Lower Mainland where I live. Is the new, publicly funded and equally impressive looking Yarrow Elementary School also guilty of the same extravagance?
Most churches that have the funds to build large buildings tend to do so in part as a matter of public trust. Large church buildings very frequently serve as meeting places and venues for a variety of non-religious community activities, in the same manner that schools and community centres do, despite the fact that they are always privately funded. Do churches bear some added responsibility in their construction projects to minimize their "display of wealth"? Even for those structures that help to facilitate the community on a large scale? |
I have never walked the campus of Yarrow, but I have walked Valour.
This photo hardly does justice to the opulance of the school.
Would I care is if was a private school. No.
Should "the church" be using secular benchmarks to grade/measure itself....No. Someone once said "be in the world but not of the world".
This high school is a perfect example of segment of "the church" that appears intent on showing off its wealth.
I agree that "the church" and their buildings provide a meeting place for secular organizations. I often wonder if those buildings could just as easily been built do less money and the savings passed those that might need it. The First Alliance in Calgary is an example:
Look don't get me wrong, I know the church does a lot of good work in society. I was raised in a very religous family. My grandparents were ministers, my grandma actively ministered till she was dead @ 97.
I me it appears that segmants (that make it more palatable) of "the church" are focused on image and displays of wealth.
I know you will disagree with me, and that's fine. The beauty of opinions is everyone has them.