Bearing in mind who's house a church is, and who creates lightning....................
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2007-12-25 22:22:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Remember, God is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent!
2007-12-26 05:07:40 · update #1
(you cannot separate the building from the GOD - do you understand? anything at all?)
2007-12-26 05:08:31 · update #2
IF you build a house of God on a Hill to be Closer to God, then Leaving off the conductor and being struck by lightening would be considered rather more honest and less hypocritical don't you think?
2007-12-26 05:10:12 · update #3
LOL, I never thought about that one...
2007-12-25 22:26:11 · answer #1 · answered by dtewsacrificial 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Churches are traditionally built on the highest point in the village or town with the steeple making them definitely the highest point so they can be seen from a long way away. This makes them vulnerable to lightning and churches were always being hit by lightning while the pubs and brothels down in the valley never were. Lightning is no respecter of buildings so a lightning conductor is a good investment.
Whether or not you install a lightning conductor on your steeple depends on whether you belong to the :"Trust in the Lord" school or "The Lord helps those who help themselves" school. The latter tend not to lose their steeples.
As an aside, the fact that steeples could be seen from a long way away led to the race called the steeplechase. A group of riders, often after a hunt, would pick a distant steeple and race to it over fences and ditches. The name of the race persists but the finishing posts are not steeples any more.
2007-12-26 06:36:12 · answer #2 · answered by tentofield 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The building is just that------a building. The church, I am told, is the people. Any tall building, or steeple, can be hit by lightening.
2007-12-26 10:17:43 · answer #3 · answered by Shossi 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You're forgetting lightening without the steeple...GOD needs no conductor.
2007-12-26 06:27:10 · answer #4 · answered by Mizz SJG 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
So they don't get struck by lightning, and...
Not all churches are houses of God.
2007-12-26 06:26:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
So, god doesn't trust itself? Power in the wrong hands can be a dangerous thing, after all.
2007-12-26 06:31:24 · answer #6 · answered by jung_son24 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I think I know what you are referring to. Something about how religion opposes science and yet they have lighting rods on churches.
2007-12-26 08:04:44 · answer #7 · answered by Imagine No Religion 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
just in case
2007-12-26 06:25:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
all tall struchers do.
2007-12-26 06:31:17 · answer #9 · answered by vintagemale1951 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋