Why do churches sometimes have stained glass windows?
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Sometimes? Where have you been.  Almost all churches have stained glass windows!
985053
With a hot directed flame you can shape glass and make the lab equipment that you need. In a glass factory glass is made into all different shapes. Glass tht we know is really a liquid. You cansee this in an old window that has become rippled.
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Believe it or not, glass is actually considered a liquid.  But, it flows very very very slowly over time.  That is why, eventually, windows and mirrors are a bit thicker at the bottom than at the top.
511662
AN interesting point!\n\nWhich is probably why churches are barely holding their own in the 'self sufficient' countries whilst in the third world churches are growing in numbers like wildfire.
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It's there to keep the environment in the display case humid. It helps when you're displaying gems and especially pearls, which need humidity to retain its lustre.
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As a pastor, I appreciate it when people wear clothes to church.  If people came naked, it would distract others from paying attention to my preaching.  \n\nMany churches do not care what type of clothes you wear to church, just that you wear something and that you come to church.  God doesn't care about our filthiest rags or our finest suits, He loves us for what's on the inside, not what's on the outside.
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Glass has been around for a long time and it is possible that someone fashioned a "lens" and did tricks with it (and was burned at the stake?).  More likely, tricks were done with campfire light and shadows on cave walls to form rabbits, gulls (or dinosaurs?).  Still a great way to entertain children, right?
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Because they need lots of rivers for baptizing.\n\nI'm a baptist and our church is built near a river.
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Most churches (methodist, episcopal, presbyterian), broke away from the catholic church at one time or another over traditions, ceremonies and beliefs that were added to what the Bible taught. Everybody had their on idea of how to do it. The Baptist and Congregational churches separated from them because we accept only the Bible as our guide - traditions are not as important as the Bible.  And we believe that a personal relationship with Jesus is what makes one a Christian - not being a member of a church.
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I think they forget that their windows aren't tinted.  Doncha just love sitting at a long light and your only entertainment is that person next to you digging out that buried treasure and trying to figure out what to do with it?  Have ya ever seen 'em stare at it almost lovingly like it is a long lost relative?
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Why do you think there are so many different types of churches.
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I like to go to my church really early in the morning when it's dark, or after Sunday night mass when it's really dark and just  think about things or look around at the empty church. It's really special because i can look up at the cross and see Jesus and it's only Him and me in the church and I can pray aloud. It's a touching experience.
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Church is the place where people in formal cloth do a brainwash to a foolish people\nhttp://wade3.jeeran.com/How.htm
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Wow, what a cool hobby!  I don't know how many people engage in it.  You may have to start a club - or at least advertise for a companion.  Why don't you publish exactly what you wrote in "details" in your local paper, in the classifieds?  Someone could be just dying to meet you.\n\nOther option - find a book on stained glass windows and see who did the photograpy... contact them and see if there are any existing groups that share your interest.
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It's a variation of the classic double hung style -- instead of two window sashes, it has three. Here's a photo that will show you more easily than it can be explained:\nhttp://www.buildme.net/Photo%20Library/shakerweb/images/shaker-04.jpg
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These windows are not as low as they appear.  And unless they area left open on a dowmpour, the entire areas are sealed to prevent water penetration.  The foundation of a building is often waterproofed with asphalt, similar to the roofing material, to protect it from humidity.  Otherwise, our houses would rot within a couple of years.
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Sadly, and I can't understand why, but it seems to me that most churches do more to segregate people than to bring them together.\n\nMaybe it has to do with our use of language in church?  We use language that is usually used for real concrete things to talk about vast incomprehesible things.  This confusion creates conflict.  This conflict creates schism.  The schism creates different churches.  \n\nThe different churches despite appearances are jealous of and in conflict with each other.  Each church develops their own set of rules to try to define why it is that they are right with the result being that they exclude others.\n\nThe basic good person is left confused as to why everybody is fighting.