Plans to erect 250-ft. crucifix

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by DinoDoc


Your circle aquaintences sounds a bit insecure in thier beliefs systems if a mere statue can inspire such insipid passive-aggressive desires.

Oh come now, DinoDoc. I know you're smart enough to recognize jokes when you see them. (faded glory, well, that's another story.)

[Zealot]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
I think that there are already giant crosses in Rio de Janerio and in Barcelona. I don't know their dimensions though.

I never noticed one in Barcelona, but I know that there's one in Lisbon!

What a waste of money and a "stain" on the landscape view...

[DanS]

A cross could be done quite tastefully and have architectural significance even at 20 stories, but I'm afraid that Texas cross is plain ugly. There is no inherent ugliness problem in a 20 story cross, though.

It reminds me of the 12 story basket office building that Longaberger built in Newark, Ohio (near my hometown). No accounting for taste...

[Tingkai]

DanS: I never would have believe it if I hadn't seen the pic. That's F'n funny.

Guynemer: This could be a chance to make some money. All you need is some seed money and a partner who is black, assuming you're not.

When the cross goes up, property prices near it will plummet. You buy a house next door and get your black friend to move in the family. That'll piss off the white neighbors and faster than you can shake a bedsheet, the Klan will come in and torch the cross. When the cross is gone, property prices shoot back up and you sell the house for a quick profit.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Tingkai
DanS: I never would have believe it if I hadn't seen the pic. That's F'n funny.

Guynemer: This could be a chance to make some money. All you need is some seed money and a partner who is black, assuming you're not.

When the cross goes up, property prices near it will plummet. You buy a house next door and get your black friend to move in the family. That'll piss off the white neighbors and faster than you can shake a bedsheet, the Klan will come in and torch the cross. When the cross is gone, property prices shoot back up and you sell the house for a quick profit.

The proposed site is not immediately near a residential area; he wants to build it at the future site of Ave Maria (what he hopes will be the future site, anyway), which at the moment is just some land surrounded by office buildings, stores, businesses, etc.

DanS, re: the basket--

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Victor Galis
Yeah, but this would be in Ann Arbor. Would you erect a 200ft. Buddha in Jerusalem?

I don't get your point. Israel is predominantly Jewish, so erecting a Buddha would sorta cut across the grain of the community at large. In most parts of the USA Christians (Catholic and Protestant) constitute a clear majority. Is Ann Arbor a particularily non-Christian town? If not, a more appropriate analogy would be for someone to erect a 200 foot tall Star of David outside of Jerusalem.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove


I don't get your point. Israel is predominantly Jewish, so erecting a Buddha would sorta cut across the grain of the community at large. In most parts of the USA Christians (Catholic and Protestant) constitute a clear majority. Is Ann Arbor a particularily non-Christian town? If not, a more appropriate analogy would be for someone to erect a 200 foot tall Star of David outside of Jerusalem.

"Predominantly Catholic" would rank around #9,758,487 of phrases used to describe Ann Arbor, right below "capital of Kerplakistan".

[Victor Galis]

Strangelove, your analogy would be correct if by "outside Jerusalem" you mean several miles to the East of it

[Provost Harrison]

Well wouldn't that thing be a little 'top heavy' you know. Sheesh, if that thing fell on someone, you'd be in serious trouble.

[November Adam]

This really isn't that different then the Sphinxes, or giant statues of Budda that were torn down in ? Afghanistan ? .

Granted a 250 ft crucific is kinda grotesque in my opinion.

[WhiteElephants]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
I don't get your point. Israel is predominantly Jewish, so erecting a Buddha would sorta cut across the grain of the community at large. In most parts of the USA Christians (Catholic and Protestant) constitute a clear majority. Is Ann Arbor a particularily non-Christian town? If not, a more appropriate analogy would be for someone to erect a 200 foot tall Star of David outside of Jerusalem.

Well, you're quite right, but Ann Arborians pride themselves on their liberal radicalism. It's not so much a poke in the eye of the local environment, but more of a unerving reminder to the local proto-liberals who ironically enough come from many of the $200,000 plus conservative households that cluster the south eastern Michigan country side.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by WhiteElephants


Well, you're quite right, but Ann Arborians pride themselves on their liberal radicalism.

Actually, we Ann ArborITES also pride ourselves on our pedantry.

And let me be clear. I don't think it should be illegal to build this thing. I just think it would be the most hideous monument ever erected by man, and I'd prefer not to live within one mile of an object with that distinction.

[Grrr]

Say Stefu, why is your avatar crushing victor galis?

[WhiteElephants]

Originally posted by Guynemer
And let me be clear. I don't think it should be illegal to build this thing. I just think it would be the most hideous monument ever erected by man, and I'd prefer not to live within one mile of an object with that distinction.

Oh come on, admit that you're frazzled by it being an icon of Christianity more so than anything else. For instance, if it was a 250 foot bong there'd be dancing in the streets, no?

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by WhiteElephants


Oh come on, admit that you're frazzled by it being an icon of Christianity more so than anything else. For instance, if it was a 250 foot bong there'd be dancing in the streets, no?

There probably would be dancing in the streets, but not from me. I'm frazzled by the possibility of a monstrously-huge depiction of a dead body nailed of an even more gangantuan cross. Would you want that in your backyard?

On a tangent, a 40-foot tall man nailed to a 250-foot tall cross... that's the equivalent of a 5'6" man on a 34'5" cross. How the hell was he supposed to drag that mother****er around town?