Monuments to God

People are greedy, especially here in America where everything is about money and how big your house or car is..When I pray for blessings, I pray for an overflow so that I can bless others. The only thing we should have to give to G♥d is ourselves since everything is His anyways..:)

Have you stopped and asked yourself, who built these monuments? all the best urban

I agree with you because it doesn't make any sense to build so many expensive buildings while childrem are in need of food and water. Education should also play an important role to bring solutions to these problems.

Hi Pose123! I am a Roman Catholic. I totally agree with you my friend. I guess the churches have their own reasons and their own ways but I do want to see them more visible in helping the poor and the needy. I hope to see a big change and effect on these people through their help and assistance. I know that there is a big collection on churches every mass and I hope they really are using them to help the needy and the poor but all I can see at the moment are fancy cars and beautiful churches. Just my thoughts. Take care my friend and I hope that I have not offended anyone. Have a nice day. :)

I ask that question all the time! God doesn't care where we worship, just that we do. I have been blessed in more small little nothing building churches and even tent revivals than I have in any big building church. I don't even get much out of a sermon with all that distraction of ornate hoopla in my face

Ah, I remember reading a poem about trees in the forest making a better cathedral than any structure written by man. Religions accumulate money and build structures (or Idols) in order to assist themselves with focusing the people on their particular religious worship. There is something awe-inspiring about these houses of worship which can be employed by the ministers, priests, or prophets to sell their particular theology and .. ergo.. receive more tithes. In the bible, it says that a man cannot have two masters. He must love one and hate the other. Money worms its way into most religions, I fear, and the ministry starts doing things for the sake of improving their income. Like building a church at lavish expense instead of humbly tending to the poor as you suggest. As far as I can see, it cannot be stopped.

Excellent question again Pose, I would love to see what others would react about this. As for my point, it is really sad to see monuments and other structures built in golds and they spent millions of money at building them. I suppose it would be nice if they'd "put their money where their mouth is" and listen to what they preach on others, they should be the one to initialize the step and that is by over-coming hunger and fighting the world's greatest oppressor which is poverty..

An excellent point. In the next town there's a church complex so huge it could easily house ALL the states homeless. I'd hate to see the price tag on that but I'm sure it could have easily funded the counties schools for several years. Really, whats the point of all that? It's not like there's a shortage of seats in the local churches, there's at least one on every block.

Our church has only enough for two hundred people and when there are about twice as many, then we plant a church somewhere else in the city so those people do not need to drive out so far. God does not need a large building nor fancy decorations such as stained glass windows. When we give our offerings, they go to the poor. I will not abandon churches nor should you encourage people to just give their wealth to the poor and hungry. Man needs spiritual comfort as well as material needs.

Good point!! Instead of spending billions on a building, use that money to help out homeless, build a shelter, set up funding to help ppl get back on their feet when tradgedy hits, set up a soup kitchen. There are hundreds of things that can be done with the money other than building a bigger and bigger building with all the fancy trimmings. As the quote says "It isn't how much you have, but what you do with it". "COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS" **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

Exactly! Why is it necessary? and these massive monuments were built on the backs of the poorest people. Before you become a supporter of an organised religion take some time to think it over. 40,000 people die of starvation in this world every day, and nobody does anything about it. Religion is the best money-making business in the world, and getting richer every day. When will the Religious come to their senses and see the Light before their eyes?

You are right again... and always.

This is a very good point and one that helps me realize some things I have been wondering about religion, god, etc...it is very true that there are people hurting in this world and they money we spend building these "monunments" could help these people. A caring god would not let this happen, he would say forget the useless, expensive monuments for me and focus on helping my people who are suffering...geez my thoughts on religion just keep taking a nosedive more and more everyday the more I realize what is going on!!

Yes, I think you are right. Some people show their faith in god by building big monuments and statues on the name of god. Instead of doing all this they must help poor children. The money they invest in all this can also be utilized in providing education and other useful things to poor children and other people that need help to survive on this Earth..... After all, God is everywhere. God dont want that we should pray him by building monuments and buildings, he wants that we should help each other in correct manner!