Church Appearance a Matter of Aesthetics
Our readers wrote letters throughout 1992, expressing their viewpoints on a variety of issues. Here are condensed versions of some of those letters to help us remember the events that mattered to Orange County readers this past year. We would like to thank the readers who took the time to share their views, and we look forward to hearing from them and others in 1992.
The great Oxford don, C.S. Lewis, once quipped that he preferred his Christianity like he preferred his whiskey--straight. To be sure, our society, for quite some time, has been busy taking the “bite” out of religion by watering it down with all sorts of admixtures.
But let’s get one thing straight: When upstanding citizens like Daniel Rasmussen request the city of Irvine to spend a few bucks blunting the adverse aesthetic impact of a towering, Byzantine-like edifice by planting a few trees, such a request hardly reflects an increasing tide of secularism (or) hostility to churches.
The issue is not religion versus establishments. The issue is aesthetics. So let’s all sober up!
DAVID G. HAGOPIAN
Rancho Santa Margarita
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