I do not agree (see below) that the churches are the least productive industry. I believe that by being morale boosters and uplifting the human spirit enabling it to work and live in harmony with one another, enabling increased productivity and better performance, that the church is possibly the most productive industry known to man and one that is supported voluntarily by its constituents unlike the government which taxes it citizens to death and beyond.
It is the church, not the government, that compassionately and ethically cares about newborns, the dying and the dead, and all in between birth and death. The church more than any other organization known to man in all of his history has promoted and preserved art and artists, and not just in any one mode of expression of art, but all art in the world.
Sex was God's gift to man, Love was God's gift to woman. (you may quote me). It is the church, not the government, that compassionately and ethically cares about newborns, the dying and the dead, and all in between birth and death. The church more than any other organization known to man in all of his history has promoted and preserved art and artists, and not just in any one mode of expression of art, but all art in the world.
From: Robert N. Eaton
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: Art and the Church, My Photography and Video of St. Francis Xavier during Lent
Catholic churches have typically been beautiful, even ornately beautiful. The feeling was, and I think still is, that this is where a common (poor) parishioner may come and be surrounded, even overwhelmed, by beauty. It is certainly nicer looking than his often squalid home, and he forgets that he is paying for all this finery by his tithes.
Then the people who inhabit this beautiful building gather together to tell him that his common thoughts and very human actions are bad, sinful. If he has any hope of a heaven, which they promote as everlasting life in paradise, he must pray, confess his sins (of which they convince him he has many,) do penance, and tithe, tithe, tithe to support the church in the manner it would like to become accustomed.
Quoting Robert A. Heinlein The Notebook of Lazarus Long:
The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.
He follows this note with:
The second most preposterous notion is that copulation is inherently sinful.
Then the people who inhabit this beautiful building gather together to tell him that his common thoughts and very human actions are bad, sinful. If he has any hope of a heaven, which they promote as everlasting life in paradise, he must pray, confess his sins (of which they convince him he has many,) do penance, and tithe, tithe, tithe to support the church in the manner it would like to become accustomed.
Quoting Robert A. Heinlein The Notebook of Lazarus Long:
The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.
He follows this note with:
The second most preposterous notion is that copulation is inherently sinful.
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