On his site, find his "projects" link and make your way to his Mega Churches page. Here you will find the surreal world of the over-sized and visually out of touch. Its amazing how these mega-microcosms create their own hierarchical systems of culture, politics and religion (their own regional concoction). To those that worship here consistently, they have no cwalms with the quirkiness and visually inept interiors they move through week by week. To the outsider, and more specifically the unbeliever, the spaces become less like a place of community and more like alien fortresses extracted straight from Salvador Dali's work (minus the artistic prowess and skills in color coordination).
I've been in churches like that. It's...surreal.
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