If I Gave You a Church...

[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.

[Hat]

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

[Will]

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.

[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...

[Ihateyoumike]

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.

[thiolsulfate]

I take back my previous proposal.

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

[curiosityandthecat]

I take back my previous proposal.

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

*ding dong*  

[Zeru]

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 ..."

[Heretical Rants]

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.

[Pineapple]

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

[Chimera]

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!

[Tom62]

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.

[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.

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

[karadan]

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

[curiosityandthecat]

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.