Need to pray? 5€, please.
I am not a religious person.
I don’t know if I should consider myself a pure Atheist, since now and then I do wonder who or what might be behind the creation of our universe and everything I care about, but let’s just say, the Church and their silly propaganda never managed to convince me in the slightest.
Even worse, when I see scenarios like the one in the picture below, it makes my stomach twist in anger like nothing else:
Apologies for the flash, but I had no chance to take another picture (I was almost kicked out for doing this).
What you see here is the entrance of the Cathedral of Our Lady, in Antwerp, Belgium.
Going in more detail, this is a CASH DESK positioned at the entrance of the Cathedral, charging everyone that wanted to enter the church five euros.
Now, am I the only one that thinks this is immoral, disgusting, and just painfully wrong?
I don’t care if the maintenance of the Church costs 1.5 million euros per year.
Ask the vatican for support, or let the priests do the maintenance themselves like the Benedictine monks do in their monasteries, instead of charging people for their right to pray in the house of a God they believe in.
Shame on you all.
In other news, this was the only bad element of an otherwise fantastic weekend spent with my girlfriend, we drove all the way to the medieval town of Bouillon, spent there the night and then visited Antwerp on our way back.
Will add pictures on my Facebook page soon!
November 2nd, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Same shit happens in Corsica
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:36 am
The same shit happens in Russia and I’m pretty sure in other places. But it is not about Church and faith. It’s about human nature – everything is on sale. And people pay! There was a queue! But we just went to eat a pizza :)