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....what would you turn it into? Just for fun  

I'd turn it into a school and forum (the real world version). I'd hire capable teachers of biology, physics, chemistry, technology, philosophy, logic, history, and art, invite people in off the street to be a part of bettering themselves. There would be knowing debates held by average people on any and every subject in the spirit of personal and intellectual growth and honesty.

I'd call it The Forum, and I'd live in a cot in the back and love every day of the rest of my life.

Will's idea is excellent and something like that would be my preference too.

I would be tempted to turn it into a place where volunteer activities are coordinated and a forum where people can exchange ideas. I am strongly in favor of helping people take responsibility for change in their community and beyond. I think that what we are responsible for, i.e. what we do, is all that defines us.

I know this will ruin my credibility again but I can't resist... If it isn't being used as a place of worship, what makes it a church? It seems that if it isn't being used as a place of worship it is simply a building.

I'd go for either a school or a volunteer organization. Maybe a shelter for victims of domestic abuse or children in need. Maybe a shelter/school?  

I would make it a strip-joint, or a brothel. Something that really benefits humanity.  

Quote from: "Sophus"....what would you turn it into? Just for fun  

an animal shelter. Something like a mini SPCA I see on animal planet. I am sick of finding injured animals and not knowing where to take them.

Tongue firmly in cheek, Christian themed restaurant.

"..I'll have a side order of Garlic Body of Christ and could I see the Blood of Christ list please?"

I'd turn it into a spaghetti restaurant.

-- or bulldoze it and make a park

Many churches trying to keep their building are doing what Will, Alp, Chimera have suggested. Well maybe not Will. His ideas would be more that they could handle.

My dad almost bought a church for $6,000.

Wide open rooms, kitchens, bathrooms...
I think his idea was puppet theater.



I would probably make it into a gym:
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Tongue firmly in cheek, Christian themed restaurant.

"..I'll have a side order of Garlic Body of Christ and could I see the Blood of Christ list please?"

I love it!!!! Don't forget the dead fig appetizers.

...I'd return the burnt rubble.

I'd knock it down and build a football (soccer) stadium...

Brothel.  

Quote from: "Will"I'd turn it into a school and forum (the real world version). I'd hire capable teachers of biology, physics, chemistry, technology, philosophy, logic, history, and art, invite people in off the street to be a part of bettering themselves. There would be knowing debates held by average people on any and every subject in the spirit of personal and intellectual growth and honesty.

I'd call it The Forum, and I'd live in a cot in the back and love every day of the rest of my life.

I'd love to do something like that. I live near Los Alamos, and I'd like to see if i could tap the various researchers up there to do free lectures on whatever scientific subject they are experts in they want to wax simple about. Perhaps hook up with the local community college too.

*sigh* If only.

Will has a very good idea, I would only add that if the surrounding land could then be bought it could be turned into a place of serene beauty. I would like it to be a place where people could share their thoughts together in a beautiful place.

I wanted to type something like all the good Ideas everyone else had but...Honestly? If it were me?

I'd renovate the entire inside to have a huge TV and a bunch of comfy chairs and a few big wardrobes for my games collection. Maybe add in a little kitchen and a bathroom somewhere...possibly a bed or two as well in the upper section. I'd make it like my own little hideout or something. Sneak off there whenever I want and chill out. No one would dare bother me either because from the outside it would look like a dodgy, run down church so it would be the last place anyone would expect to find me. Man that would be so cool |D

Quote from: "Dragon_Of_Heavon"Will has a very good idea, I would only add that if the surrounding land could then be bought it could be turned into a place of serene beauty. I would like it to be a place where people could share their thoughts together in a beautiful place.

Oh, I like that! Build an organic garden and beyond that a tea garden or nature reserve. I'm sure people interested in botany could utilize such a place and others could simply find some peace away from the distractions of normal life.

A concert hall of course! Tss tss, a shelter indeed: did you ever try to sleep in a church? Drafts and cold stone. No good, no good. Have music lovers pay for concerts, pay for a proper shelter with the proceeds, and triple the good you will do by converting the building...

Quote from: "samiahurst"did you ever try to sleep in a church?

Only every Sunday for the first 18 years of my life until I was awoken by a slap to the back of the head from my Mom.

I take back my previous proposal.

I'd paint the bell tower like a giant penis.

Quote from: "thiolsulfate"I take back my previous proposal.

I'd paint the bell tower like a giant penis.

*ding dong*  

Quote from: "samiahurst"A concert hall of course! Tss tss, a shelter indeed: did you ever try to sleep in a church? Drafts and cold stone. No good, no good. Have music lovers pay for concerts, pay for a proper shelter with the proceeds, and triple the good you will do by converting the building...

I second this one, though the ideas for education and community sound pretty good also..  

Something that completely undermines what the church was originally built for does give me a delicious sense of thrill though.  Biology, anthropology, sociology, any other sciences.  Lectures and discussions and other such godless revelry.

Ah, another idea: Turn it into a museum for what should be a dying religion.  Treat the church like a curious historical site in the grand timeline of human delusion.  Someday your great grandchildren can take a tour and be amazed at the idiocy and primitivism of their ancestors.  

"...and on your left you can see an original communion wafer which was ..."

For the museum idea, all you have to do is go into a real church and pretend the reverend/pastor/mullah/whatever is a robot.

I think a Catholic church with a bell tower would make for an amazing paintball scenario.

Quote from: "Pineapple"I think a Catholic church with a bell tower would make for an amazing paintball scenario.

*Imagines running around Notre Dame in Paris shooting paintballs at people*

I like it!

Quote from: "Pineapple"I think a Catholic church with a bell tower would make for an amazing paintball scenario.

Cool idea. I'd love to see the pope's white robe being splattered with paint.

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Quote from: "Pineapple"I think a Catholic church with a bell tower would make for an amazing paintball scenario.

Cool idea. I'd love to see the pope's white robe being splattered with paint.

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Built with faith in mind.
Like for when he gets attacked by angry atheist paintballers.

A really really big fire. I'd put a Guy fawkes on the spire and set it alight on the 5th November.  

Quote from: "Pineapple"I think a Catholic church with a bell tower would make for an amazing paintball scenario.

Kind of like the cathedral scene in Resistance: Fall of Man.   Some churchy types were piiiiiissed.