From: GEVANS613-AT-aol.com
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 06:43:26 EDT
Subject: Inflatable Church.



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A man demonstrates the inflatable church.

Designer wants to sell one to pope

A German designer who made a market success out of  producing and selling 
inflatable versions of Nazi philosopher Martin Heidegger's famous 
mountainside hut and selling them to European right wing parties for use as 
weatherproof shelters for their military-style camps, has made what he says 
is the world's first inflatable church -- a grey plastic building with a 
blow-up organ, pulpit, altar, Gothic arches and fake stained glass windows. 
The inventor says the church, which stands 47 feet high to the tip of its 
steeple, could sell well in Britain and  revolutionise the Anglican Church, 
suffering from dwindling attendance for years. Vicars could carry it around 
with them on the back of a truck and set it up on patches of grass or in 
village squares for impromptu services, he said. "This could change the whole 
perception of what the Church of England stands for." 
Like Heidegger's blow-up hut, which comes complete with a picture of Adolf 
Hitler hanging on the rubberised wall and an old style gramophone with a 
33-rpm recording of the "Horst Wessel Song," the inflatable church is 
revolutionary. It's moving with the 21st century." "If people won't go to 
church then the church needs to go to the people," he said. "This is one way 
of doing it." The inventor says he plans to unveil the church at an 
exhibition near Berlin next month and has already had inquiries about it from 
religious leaders as diverse as  the Pope, the Dalai Lama and Jerry Falwell. 
The church is hand-painted and has windows made from coloured PVC. "They 
filter the light perfectly, just like real stained glass windows," he said.  
If the church is a success, he plans to diversify into inflatable Hindu 
Temples and Mosques. 
    


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