Is your house of worship well endowed?

Male gods are showy.

And phallic...drool...

My spire is bigger than yours . . .

neener neener

It's not the size of the chapel that counts, but the way it's hymns are sung. (Or do only gods with small chapels say that?)

The question is: Where or how did the focus on human sexuality become infused into religious architecture?

Perhaps Stonehenge is an astronomy calculator.

Perhaps it is simply an ring of phallic erections.

Oops!

Well, doesn't the focus on sexuality belie the profession of spirituality?

Any steeple worshippers care to respond?

I think that it's an attempt to reach to the heavens, the "realm of the gods." But I don't know anything about the history of steeples.

Are we simply ignoring God's will? (Judges 3:7)

Dauer suggests:



I'm not an expert in the History of Steeples, but I know that during the Dark Ages (and American colonial times) when settlements were sparse, the steeple could be a landmark both for foot travelers and a navigation point for mariners.

Bells need a belfry--and the higher the belfry, the further the sound would carry.

Sometimes early church towers were fortified and used as a sanctuary during bandit raids and Viking invasions. Choosing a steeple over a tower could indicate that peaceful times had arrived.

All sorts of denominations have been known to compete in steeple size, assuming that God is on the side of the biggest erections.

Perhaps the emphasis on sexuality could simply be a Halloween prank played on those religious adherents by the god they worship.