Franco did not want to get into churches, and some bishops and other member of the Catalan Church organized republican and demcoratic gatherings where people could speak in catalan, and freely ad against fascism.
So, the word church of people has very nice connotation in Spaim.. actually more than church the word "community" was used from the catholic "communion".
The same word can have very very different connotation to very different people. for example, the present Spanish church is so disgustng I would not like to ahve even a name associated with it.. but the catalan and Southern and northern Spanish had chruch communities durign franco times that were the encarnation of "good".
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
(the word had positive connotations for me anyway, because i love architecture and am fascinated by natural acoustics.)
churches are only really enjoyable when they're empty, that way you can whistle and sing to your heart's content.
i had an american friend who, whenever he was looking for a bottle opener, would say 'anyone have a church key?'
it'd be nice if the word could lose its negative image and become more like the way sven uses it here, and eventually reactions like poemless's would become obsolete.
'catholic' is another one of these double-meaning words.
if catholics were more catholic, they wouldn't be catholic at all...
it's very strange what happens when you repeat a word often enough till a part of your brain starts to deconstruct its semantic self.
my dream is that all the beautiful, crumbling, ancient churches could be restored and used for community theatre and spectacle.
which is probaly what they were originally, before the men-in-black, dog-botherers showed up to spoil the fun/ inject some moralisation into the decadent populus...
it must be a bit embarassing for the vatican to see how empty the churches are becoming.
sven is such a master of irony, i would never get offended by anything he writes...
ET as a place to test reverb.....GOOD!
ET as place where we get 'churched'...not so much.
more of a revival tent, anyway, lol. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
