Doesn't a church steeple with a lightning rod on top show a lack of confidence?

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Answer 1

No.
Have you ever heard of a thing called insurance? You must have one to get it.

But I do congratulate you, you finally figured out how to ask a question.

Answer 2

hahaha. No not a lack of confidence. Back when Ben Franklin invented/discovered the lightening rod, he learned that it worked best when it was up high. At the time, the tallest buildings in town were churches, so quite naturally the townsfolk chose to put it at the top of the church. There was some controversy about this decision, but it made so much sense, that it soon became the norm. Now days, even though most churches are not the tallest building in town, the tradition remains.
Ten years ago there was a church building that was newly built in the town I now live in who refused to put a steeple on their building saying it was unnecessary because a water tower was a few blocks away and would attract any lightening that may be in the area. This went on for a few years, but people kept thinking the building was a business because it just didn't look like a church. Now it has a steeple and a lightening rod.

Answer 3

No. A church steeple without a lightning rod on top would show a lack of intelligence.

Answer 4

I know I dont want my steeple to get blown up by lightning...if I had one, thats money that could have helped the church elsewhere.

Answer 5

Actually, it is a remnant of the obelisk...once and still used by pagans as a phallic symbol....RCC uses it a lot, and unfortunately it is also on most churches....

As for faith in weather conditions...I've seen our church be saved from tornados heading for it, have a friend who's church was saved from 3 tornados one after another heading directly for it. During each instance, the congregation was inside, and fervently praying. I'd feel safer in church than anywhere else during bad weather.

Answer 6

HA! NO! Lightning exists and ought to hit any shape. church residences are full of sinners - we are all sinners. no person is appropriate and holy. it rather is why we bypass to church, to locate salvation. God hasn't used lightning to take lives (yet). He used water and fireside. If my church have been given struck it ought to correctly be by using actuality it did no longer have lightning rods on good of it, no longer by using actuality God grew to alter into into smiting us. Get authentic!

Answer 7

It shows people are sensible, and whatever their misguided theology of divine omnipotence, they understand tacitly that the natural world works the way it does independently of human weal.

Your question leads naturally into the topic of theodicy, which is where you should really be concentrating your efforts. Unfortunately, there are theists who have taken atheistic critiques of traditional theodicy into account, and offer cogent forms of theism which elude those critiques. Check this out:

Answer 8

LOL

Good one - In fact, when Benjamin Franklin first invented the lightning arrester, the church was against it !

Answer 9

One of the greates gifts God gave man was a BRAIN! God did not give mankind a brain to use as skull filler but to USE.
Hello? Anybody home?

Lightening rods are a sound idea.

Answer 10

I agree with that statement, but its like the people who live in tornado row, they know ones coming, but refuse to move. I guess they have "faith", but last time i checked, faith cant stop a fire from spreading throughout a building.