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[[Wikipedia]], a [[wiki]] founded by [[Atheism|atheist]] and [[agnosticism|agnostic]], has articles on "Early Christian art and architecture" and "Church architecture". The closest article Wikipedia has on "atheist architecture is an article on "[[Postmodernism|Postmodern]] architecture".
[[Wikipedia]], a [[wiki]] founded by [[Atheism|atheist]] and [[agnosticism|agnostic]], has articles on "Early Christian art and architecture" and "Church architecture". The closest article Wikipedia has on "atheist architecture is an article on "[[Postmodernism|Postmodern]] architecture".
I remember lecturing at Ohio State University, one of the largest universities in this country. I was minutes away from beginning my lecture, and my host was driving me past a new building called the Wexner Center for the Performing Arts.
He said, “This is America’s first postmodern building.”
I was startled for a moment and I said, “What is a postmodern building?”
He said, “Well, the architect said that he designed this building with no design in mind. When the architect was asked, ‘Why?’ he said, ‘If life itself is capricious, why should our buildings have any design and any meaning?’ So he has pillars that have no purpose. He has stairways that go nowhere. He has a senseless building built and somebody has paid for it.”
I said, “So his argument was that if life has no purpose and design, why should the building have any design?”
He said, “That is correct.”
I said, “Did he do the same with the foundation?”
All of a sudden there was silence.
You see, you and I can fool with the infrastructure as much as we would like, but we dare not fool with the foundation because it will call our bluff in a hurry.
The [[Soviet Union]] closed down many churches and converted some of them into Museums of Atheism rather than build magnificent buildings dedicated to promoting atheistic ideology.<ref>[http://www.presentpasts.info/articles/10.5334/pp.13/ Militant Atheist Objects: Anti-Religion Museums in the Soviet Union] by Crispin Paine</ref>
The [[Soviet Union]] closed down many churches and converted some of them into Museums of Atheism rather than build magnificent buildings dedicated to promoting atheistic ideology.<ref>[http://www.presentpasts.info/articles/10.5334/pp.13/ Militant Atheist Objects: Anti-Religion Museums in the Soviet Union] by Crispin Paine</ref>