I'm no longer a virgin!
This weekend has been the "Xavi and the Catholics" thing.
First of all, I did something I had never done before. Being born and raised in this city, which I love but which sometimes I loathe, I visited the Sagrada Família for the first time. Dominique (neoclyps ) made me do this! As a revenge, he says that I should ask him to go to the highest point open to the public on the Eiffel Tower. But it's not exactly the same.
Well, I took exactly two pictures but I don't know where I put the camera cable.
My impressions? First of all: this is a classic "meapilas" (despective word for churchgoers) project. Which has turned out to be the most important monument here. I concede that it's impressive - but I guess that finishing it using all kinds of modern concrete and over "reconstructed" designs and pictures is not what Gaudí wanted. Or maybe yes. You never know - This Gaudí is being brought to the Altars now.
Secondly, I was sick to see not one but five posters complaining about the rail tunnel which is going to pass by. Considering that the construction company has been BANNED a few times to check the works so they can assess if the tunnel makes a damage afterwards, they have no respect from my side.
Then paying €10 euros to visit the works and then additional €2.50 for every elevator up the bell towers well... I will go up because I want to see the city from there, but it's just outrageous as a visit you can do in 30 minutes, or 2 hours if you check the museum which is indeed, the most interesting part of the church.
Then there's the usual question: when is it going to be finished? It's halfway through, so I guess we need to wait for 120 more years
And continuing about the hate the Church weekend I had, I'm so eager to see the following film (my roomate tried to download a screener and save the movie ticket, but I think I'm going to see it). It's the story of an Opus Dei family girl who has a tremendous cancer that leaves her crippled and dying. Yet she's happy because she's going to see god very soon. Of course, besides the innocence or the faith of this girl there's the horrible and powerful Opus Dei behind, who has been using her story to show off the power of "Faith and Love." This girl is also being taken to the altars. The film story is not exactly what the story of the girl is about, but an exaggerated version of it.
I love the quote "So do you want me to pray for you to die as well?"
I've seen this attitude in quite a number of family with serious health issues. I know at least 5 of them which are very good Christians (in the Catholic way) because they have a child with Down's Syndrome and I've got even a relative somewhere who had a very painful illness related to the spine (I can't precise, I was too young) and he was praying all day long. And I've seen a couple of coaches driving people with all kind of illnesses to Lourdes and Fatima to see if the virging can cure them.
One of the things I hate from my own country (Spain or Catalonia, or both) is the tremendous power of the Catholic Church and the Opus Dei. As if more than 1000 years of ruling hadn't hurt us enough. Take two of the latest:
- "Moral assistants" in public Hospitals in Madrid condemned and got doctors almost in prison for applying extreme paliative oilment to people who were almost dying because "it was covered euthanasia". As I live in a left-ish region, that figure doesn't exist. Madrid is privatizing it's public healthcare as well. So as you can see, it all goes in the same package.
-A judge in Spain has accepted families to dig out communal graves from the Spanish Civil War. Now, DNA techniques may allow thousands of families to recover their decessed relatives, who were usually shot by the fascists at the verge of the Civil War. But, and this is something I know from my own family, the Church had a very important role as well: The testimony of the local priest counted as a judge. Therefore, people who had only been affiliated to unions were shot because priests told they were "reds" (communists, leftist, whatever). And what does the Church say now? "The past should be left where it is". Of course they're not speaking about they own dead people, whom they're taking to the altars in Rome. Hipocrisy anyone?
I really hate the Church. All of them.
First of all, I did something I had never done before. Being born and raised in this city, which I love but which sometimes I loathe, I visited the Sagrada Família for the first time. Dominique (neoclyps ) made me do this! As a revenge, he says that I should ask him to go to the highest point open to the public on the Eiffel Tower. But it's not exactly the same.
Well, I took exactly two pictures but I don't know where I put the camera cable.
My impressions? First of all: this is a classic "meapilas" (despective word for churchgoers) project. Which has turned out to be the most important monument here. I concede that it's impressive - but I guess that finishing it using all kinds of modern concrete and over "reconstructed" designs and pictures is not what Gaudí wanted. Or maybe yes. You never know - This Gaudí is being brought to the Altars now.
Secondly, I was sick to see not one but five posters complaining about the rail tunnel which is going to pass by. Considering that the construction company has been BANNED a few times to check the works so they can assess if the tunnel makes a damage afterwards, they have no respect from my side.
Then paying €10 euros to visit the works and then additional €2.50 for every elevator up the bell towers well... I will go up because I want to see the city from there, but it's just outrageous as a visit you can do in 30 minutes, or 2 hours if you check the museum which is indeed, the most interesting part of the church.
Then there's the usual question: when is it going to be finished? It's halfway through, so I guess we need to wait for 120 more years
And continuing about the hate the Church weekend I had, I'm so eager to see the following film (my roomate tried to download a screener and save the movie ticket, but I think I'm going to see it). It's the story of an Opus Dei family girl who has a tremendous cancer that leaves her crippled and dying. Yet she's happy because she's going to see god very soon. Of course, besides the innocence or the faith of this girl there's the horrible and powerful Opus Dei behind, who has been using her story to show off the power of "Faith and Love." This girl is also being taken to the altars. The film story is not exactly what the story of the girl is about, but an exaggerated version of it.
Click to viewI love the quote "So do you want me to pray for you to die as well?"
I've seen this attitude in quite a number of family with serious health issues. I know at least 5 of them which are very good Christians (in the Catholic way) because they have a child with Down's Syndrome and I've got even a relative somewhere who had a very painful illness related to the spine (I can't precise, I was too young) and he was praying all day long. And I've seen a couple of coaches driving people with all kind of illnesses to Lourdes and Fatima to see if the virging can cure them.
One of the things I hate from my own country (Spain or Catalonia, or both) is the tremendous power of the Catholic Church and the Opus Dei. As if more than 1000 years of ruling hadn't hurt us enough. Take two of the latest:
- "Moral assistants" in public Hospitals in Madrid condemned and got doctors almost in prison for applying extreme paliative oilment to people who were almost dying because "it was covered euthanasia". As I live in a left-ish region, that figure doesn't exist. Madrid is privatizing it's public healthcare as well. So as you can see, it all goes in the same package.
-A judge in Spain has accepted families to dig out communal graves from the Spanish Civil War. Now, DNA techniques may allow thousands of families to recover their decessed relatives, who were usually shot by the fascists at the verge of the Civil War. But, and this is something I know from my own family, the Church had a very important role as well: The testimony of the local priest counted as a judge. Therefore, people who had only been affiliated to unions were shot because priests told they were "reds" (communists, leftist, whatever). And what does the Church say now? "The past should be left where it is". Of course they're not speaking about they own dead people, whom they're taking to the altars in Rome. Hipocrisy anyone?
I really hate the Church. All of them.