It was reported recently that author and entrepreneur Alain de Botton is building an "atheist temple" in London. The questions queue up quickly, do they not: How can he get away with calling it a temple? How do atheists feel about this? What is de Botton getting at? And how come we Christians don't get cool, mind-blowing stuff like this in our churches?
It really is pretty cool. The structure is not what you would normally think of as a temple. According to de zeen, It will be a "huge black tower... measuring 46 meters [150 feet] tall, [representing] the age of the earth, with each centimeter equating to 1 million years and with, at the tower's base, a tiny band of gold a mere millimeter thick standing for mankind's time on earth. The Temple is dedicated to the idea of perspective, which is something we're prone to lose in the midst of our busy modern lives."
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