Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:38:11 +0100, D wrote:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
St._Francis_Xavier_Church_(Missoula,_Montana)

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Now we're talking!!

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Leaving theology entirely aside Catholics always had a much better
aesthetic sense than Protestants. The protestants even parsed the
decalogue to wind up with "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"
rather than "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain"
that the Catholics and Lutherans use.  Bunch of damn dour Taliban types.

This is the truth!

Statues! Candles! Incense! Paintings! A church isn't supposed to look like
a barn!

Have a look at Quaker churches and weep. ;)

Of course, the Catholics seem determined to give that all away. Francis X
has streaming video of the Mass. I watched once and hardly recognized it.

Yeah... he's not my favourite pope. I wonder if there will be a huge backlash and a super conservative pope when it's time for him to go? I heard rumours that one contender for the papacy is the only swedish cardinal Anders (?) Arborelius.
Yesterday, he purchased a church from the swedish church since they do no longer have the funds to care for and renovate the church. So instead of it just slowly deteriorating, the catholic church acquired it, and the swedish church still gets some usage rights.
Here it is:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankt_Johannes_kyrka,_Stockholm
Soon to be catholic.