{"id":3380,"date":"2020-09-14T10:44:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T09:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2023-09-19T15:00:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T14:00:25","slug":"building-blasphemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/building-blasphemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Blasphemy?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The news this weekend, at least in my part of the Christian internet, was dominated by a coordinated PR blitz on behalf of ‘The Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer’. While you may have noticed it, with it’s striking design, in your newspaper of choice, for the sake of clarity, you can read all about the project on their website<\/a>. Ever since I heard about this project, a few years ago now, I felt a sense of unease about it, and not just at the cost.<\/p>\n There are two big reasons why I think this is a\u00a0bad idea<\/strong>. I say this as someone who, by any theological and sociological definition, is pretty ‘out there’: I believe God is real, answers prayer, does miracles today, cares about every aspect of our strange little lives, created everything, loves to see creativity being excercised by us, and will one day make everything new. In short, there is a lot of the spirit and vision of this project that I could quite easily sign up to. But I can’t, and I don’t think you should too. This post is aimed at Christians – but I hope anyone reading it who wouldn’t call themselves a follower of Jesus can follow the logic, and see that just because someone has paid for good media coverage, doesn’t mean that all Christians, even all Christians of a certain kind, think the thing being covered in the media is a good thing. Anyway, here are two reasons why this is a bad idea.<\/p>\n Let’s start with the simple one.<\/p>\n Firstly and most simply, though less importantly, this is a hubristic project that goes against several of the key commands of Scriptures, and the mission that God invites his people on.<\/p>\n Consider these verses from Amos 5:<\/p>\n This is what the\u00a0Lord<\/span>\u00a0says to Israel:<\/span><\/p>\n