The dying churches in Sweden

I came across this article about many church buildings being in an acute need of renovation, from the very grounds. The floors are poor, rotten, moldy, and the air in the churches is dangerous for the visitors.

There was even a picture of a church interior, with a floor taken away, during the replacement process. The problem with these types of needs is of a financial nature - it costs millions of Swedish crowns and the local churches are not able to cover those costs by themselves.

I found it very symptomatic and metaphorical, this subject of dying churches in Sweden. Somebody, the author, is very concerned about preserving the pieces of architecture and the monuments of culture for the future generations. I wonder, why.

I bet the same author would not give one thought to the more serious problem, but one that could have the very same title, "The dying churches in Sweden", only this time not dealing with the architecture, but with the very essence of those churches, the very reason they were once built. The sad reality of the Church of Sweden is that it is a dying institution, already being a spiritually dead church. By choosing to be a church universal and open to everything politically correct, it opened its door to any kind of abomination possible. I have taken it up many times before on this blog. I do not think that Spirit of God lives in this place. And this place is dead, fills up with people for few times every year. Nobody cares...

So why suddenly bother about walls and floors? To preserve what and why? Christianity in Sweden has become a historicaly past phenomenon, something to show to children in a museum, to condescendingly point modern fingers at the old-fashioned way of life and say some nice formulas about it, how grateful we all are to Luther and King Gustav Vasa and the language reform, how wonderful it was to have those churches once in time to gather people in and teach them the law, and look now how great it is to look back and remember, but oh how much more free we are without all this bubble about God and sin and punishment...

Swedes do not strike me as people caring a lot about their artifacts. If something is old and ugly, it goes. If something costs too much to restore, it is not worth the trouble. They pride themselves in being modern and 'of today'. So I do not believe those old churches stand much chance in remaining where they are, and getting some face lifting done. Many of them are doomed, some may be bought and remade into villas, a few may become mosques... And those few that will be lucky shall play a very dubious role in this country of feminism, of money and of humanism, in this country that rejected God and made itself an idol...