{"id":3945,"date":"2007-04-28T14:02:09","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T19:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/04\/28\/you-got-to-be-kidding-me\/"},"modified":"2007-04-28T14:02:09","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T19:02:09","slug":"you-got-to-be-kidding-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/04\/you-got-to-be-kidding-me\/","title":{"rendered":"You got to be kidding me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faithfulrebel.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/perhaps-ugliest-catholic-church-in.html\">Faithful Rebel points to what<\/a> he calls perhaps the Ugliest Catholic Church in History- &#8220;Peter and Paul&#8221; Catholic Church in Maassluis, Holland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/%7Ecurtjester\/Maassluis_PeterPaulChurch.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"181\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">For me it doesn&#8217;t strike me enough to elicit ugly, but it certainly doesn&#8217;t raise my mind up to God other than the phrase god-awful. It looks more like a discarded should be joint from some gigantic robot. Maybe it is a transformer church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Transformers churches<br \/>\nMore than meets the eye<br \/>\nTransformers churches<br \/>\nChurches in Disguise<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Though looking at the Transformers theme I didn&#8217;t realize how filled with the Gospel it was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">To stand divided we will surely fall<br \/>\nUntil our darkest hour<br \/>\nWhen the light will save us all<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appp.nl\/doc.php?id=33\">This page shows the construction<\/a> and the interior. Some of the statues inside are quite nice. Others leave something to be desired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/%7Ecurtjester\/Maassluis_PeterPaulChurch_cruicifix.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Something about the proportions of this crucifix seem off to me. Maybe it is the people standing next to me, but I associate alien with it and that one of Jesus&#8217;s last words was &quot;Phone home.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Though nothing prepared me for what is probably the most unfortunate statue in history to reside in a Catholic Church. In addition the eyes really creep me out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/%7Ecurtjester\/Maassluis_PeterPaulChurch_statue.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Quite as unfortunate as <a href=\"http:\/\/uccatholic.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/friends-dont-let-friends-do-stained.html\">this stained glass window<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faithful Rebel points to what he calls perhaps the Ugliest Catholic Church in History- &#8220;Peter and Paul&#8221; Catholic Church in Maassluis, Holland. For me it doesn&#8217;t strike me enough to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}