[Buckeye McFrog]

It kind of disturbs me that they would want a building this ostentatious while at the same time preaching humility to the flock.

[Jeff Chandler]

They were in need of a cathedral for the diocese. I don't know how the cost of building one compares to the cost of acquiring this one.

I don't like it personally. It looks like it was transported from Krypton. Which, I suppose, is better than the Prison Nouveau cathedral down Interstate 5

[svcw]

I read once that churches centuries ago were built like this (or other magnificent building) as a representation of heaven.
Pictures and tapestries were used to teach Bible as most people were unable to read.
Do not know if that’s correct, it does make sense though

[Dutchboy88]

"It kind of disturbs me that they would want a building this ostentatious while at the same time preaching humility to the flock."

Schuller was never about the Gospel. He was a protege of Norman Vincent Peale and the Power of Positive Thinking, a cult almost as kooky as Rome. So, it just went from one circus to another.

[Mrs. Don-o]

What?? Bishop Vann is preaching humility now? Tell me about it.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***It kind of disturbs me that they would want a building this ostentatious****

It was designed to take some architectural award the year it was built. It lost to the small THORNCROWN CHAPEL in Eureka Springs, AR.

[fabian]

Waste of the flocks money...devil is in the church big time.

[vladimir998]

“It kind of disturbs me that they would want a building this ostentatious while at the same time preaching humility to the flock.”

Gee, you mean like the Temple God ordered to be built?