What an amazing building. Does anyone else feel that from both inside and out, it looks and feels like a wingless aircraft? Or at least like some form of vehicle...a giant Chinook or C17, from the inside.
If I were a person of faith, I might be embarrased or shocked by this enterprise.
The immortal words "God has sent me a vision...we must build an (insert deified non-random project here)" must've echoed down the building plots of time. My fevered insanity is my certainty, and yours is currently yours. But, if I attract more adherents than you, mine becomes an establishment orthodoxy, your's becomes a heresy. I can build temples to a civic monopolised set-style, shaped like an animal/bird/aircraft, within which people are 'born'/married/'die', and it becomes a franchise. Everyone that is part of that belief-clan can never see the shape of the church building they are in, because it is part of them....almost the Church of McDonalds. And those non-believers, the Chicken Churchers of KFC (blessed be the Colonel, and his secret recipe), over the next hill, they will never see the hallowed golden arches. No-one comes to the father except via Ronald.....
Note that the shape of the bird building is still vaguely church-like....no steeple, but a head for a tower. No wings or 'wings' (apse/nave), but I wonder if it was built along quasi-pagan Judeo- Christian compass alignments (such as facing sunrise on Beltaine, or suchlike?)