Star: A prayer for the city's great churches

[MisterF]

The French aren't a race, silly.

From Dictionary.com -

race -noun
1. a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.
2. a population so related.

Hiding your racism behind technicalities isn't helping your case.

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

there's only one way to find out if he's really racist.

beez, what do you call "pieces of potato that have been cut into batons and deep-fried" ?

a) french fries

b) freedom fries

c) chips

 

[scarberiankhatru]

If the French are a race, then I'm mixed race. *runs off to apply for vis-min scholarships*

 

[Observer Walt]

I don't know if I've ever seen a thread get so far off topic as this one seems to be.

 

[Admiral Beez]

Sorry Mod for taking the thread off topic. For the record, I'm not intending to insert or introduce topics on race and certainly want to give more than I take from the board.

 

[adma]

The "palace" isn't stranded, rather surrounded by skyscrapers, and it itself was the Stalinist bombast. (Now, Stalin's name isn't even found on the building, the statues which once read "Marx, Lenin, Stalin" now only have the first two names).

You didn't think every building in Warsaw looked like the Palace did you?

Come to think of it, there is something "Downtown Mississauga" about that image;-) (And while it shows how PCS has been brought to "skyline scale", pedestrian scale is another matter; you just can't easily "fix" such a thing. And I *was* referring to the Stalinist bombast in and of itself.)

Brampton isn't a dystopia today, though the sprawling subdivisions. The new church does not look like the Palace of Culture, and it's surrounded by a subdivision where the street names are Polish inspired. The church organizes picnics with music (contemporary, live), dancing, food every Sunday in the summer and hundreds of people show up.

Don't take my comparison too literally; I was alluding more to the cheesiness of the design, in a "what hath Postmodernism wrought" sense...

 

[junctionist]

Importantly though, it doesn't look like a "megachurch".