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Originally Posted by blazey
Its a real shame all the churches are being knocked down and replaced with offices and supermarkets or being sold to convert to houses 
Thankfully my church has what I call a decent sized congregation so I dont think it will be proposed to shut it down.
I dont get time to go like I used to at school, I used to sing in the choirs. I would hate it if my church got knocked down just to build a shop or something there.
As already said though the main problem is with church attendance figures and its not just happening in accy, its happening all over the country. The best thing to do about it is to attend a church regularly, otherwise all they'll do is keep knocking them down. |
But there is an unsettling irony in this. The reason that people are not going to church is that they no longer believe. And one of the major reasons for this death of belief is the carnage of WW1. It is no accident that the growth of existentialism roughly coincides with the war. The major rhetorical question on the minds of the people who lived thro' it goes something like "how can one believe in the existence of a benevolent god, when one has seen hell run unchecked on earth?" One Job we can accept, but not tens of millions. And what happens twenty years after the war to end all wars? Real evil, with a disarmingly silly tache, again runs amok.
But the irony is that the church which contains the memorial to the Pals may become a casualty of the war in which the Pals fought so bravely.