This church on Steeled in Toronto must have caused big bucks. Why couldn't they just meet in a park and have their service. The money spent on this church could have gone a long way to help the poor and homeless. Isn't that the Christian thing to do?
If one looks at a majority of main stream religions it is noticeable that the places of worship are often massive, imposing, with an outward sense of power. All of this in intended....it's basic advertising principals for a product.
I was brought up in the Catholic Church and I am a survivor. I still remember to this day the explicit defining moment my eyes were opened. I was a young teenager in Church and there was a family there who were poor. We use to collect odd mittens at the school (during my elementary school years) so that the kids of this family had warm gloves for winter. I sat in the church and looked at the gold chalices, crosses and other props, the priestly clothing sewn with gold threads, the stained glass windows worth thousands upon thousands, the massive wealth surrounding me including the priests brand new Cadillac sitting in the driveway beside the church. This was not right, not the way it should be or was even meant to be if one looks at the the written history of Christ himself. I never went back to church except on one occasion and even that time just reconfirmed what I had believed.
For the most part, religion is a scam, a cult and just another venue for the powerful (both priestly and followers) to lord over people through the indoctrination of eternal fear.
