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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
It's sort of ironic....if you had asked me in 1990 that in 17 years the church would be starting an unprecedented building effort costing something like a billion dollars, I would have thought it would be the New Jerusalem.
And not a mall.
It's time to realize that SLC is something to be left behind.
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Seriously, this seems very strange to me. Spend $2 billion to attract heathens to Mecca, surrounding the sanctum sanctorum with all the glitz and latest trappings of popular Western culture--fancy hand bag shops, multi-plexes, sushi bars, bars. It sums up LDS culture's myriad contraditions. It actually reminds me of some ill-fated Soviet initiative in Siberia.
My vision for downtown Salt Lake: Erect high stone walls around it, fill it will huge, magnificent buildings (that even dwarf the temple) of awe inspiring beauty built to last the ages, cover their interiors with the finest frescos ever created by man, go all across the earth and buy up the greatest paintings and sculptures of the Rennaisance and the Classical and Enlightenment ages to cover the unfrescoed walls and fill the open spaces, and open all edifices to the public. Then the heathens will come, in droves, and they'll feel the spirit of God.
I should be running things down there.