Anyone else spotted the Freudian undertones?

Question

Is it just me or is modern religion more about the glorification of phallic shaped buildings run by sexually oppressed men?

Every church trying to have a bigger spire than the last, other than that i cant really see a need for elevating the d**n things so high. It's not like bells don't function closer to the ground.

(The spell checker wanted to change 'dont' to 'dint'? Is it mocking my inability to use punctuation?)

Or perhaps i have a great deal more time on my hands than I'm willing to accept?

Answer 1

Sometimes the spire is just a spire.  The phallic reference is yours alone.

Answer 2

The height of cathedral building was in the Medieval times. The old spires put the new to shame. No Freudian undertone implied.

Answer 3

Just like in The Little Mermaid.

But uhh I don't really think so.  Maybe you just have that time on your hands like you suggested.

Answer 4

Considering that Christianity is just an amalgam of pagan religions, and that pagan religions would often use fertility idols such as a phallus, it seems only natural that clergy would want to *ahem* erect  a large, sturdy looking steeple to represent what they hope will be a fertile parish.

Answer 5

It's the striving of churches to create the tallest Tower of Babel. Are you taking cultural anthro and psychology this semester?

Answer 6

I think your last line nailed it. BTW, a higher bell can be heard further across the countryside. Not needed anymore, but that is the reason for the altitude.

Answer 7

Mysticism is often inversely related to a level of sexual inhibition and repression.  

Answer 8

It is just you, or at least not me. I do not follow your thought line

Answer 9

sounds like you are the phallic-minded to me!

;)

Answer 10

You are speaking of Pagans,must be very very old Church