Building a Temple to AtheismFebruary 3, 2012
"...a temple can be built to anything that’s positive and good; a temple to love, friendship, calm or perspective.
The Temple to Anything Positive and Good is the first proposed temple that will rise 150 feet over central London. According to architect Tom Greenall, the concrete tower would be built slowly over a period of years with 1 centimeter for every million years of the earth’s existence. A gold band of less than a millimeter would be inscribed in the interior of the tower one meter from the ground to represent the short extent of human life on earth. Greenhall said that everything below the band is the future."
Alain de Botton reveals plans for 'temple to atheism' in heart of London26 January 2012
The Guardian
"The idea has echoes of earlier atheist spaces, ranging from churches converted to "temples of reason" during the French revolution to the Conway Hall in London which is run by the humanist South Place Ethical Society."
"...Anglican, the Rev George Pitcher, a priest at St Bride's, Fleet Street, and a former adviser to the archbishop of Canterbury, "rejoiced" in the idea. "He is referring to a sense of human transcendence, that there is something more than our visceral existence," Pitcher said. "Building a monument acknowledges that we are more than dust. Whether we come at that through secular means or a religious narrative, it is the same game.""
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