monocot wrote:
Oh come on,anyone who lived in Jax for any amount of time knows about FBC. If you haven't, you weren't paying attention. For those who live elsewhere, think of them as the Jacksonville version of "Focus on the family" I always hated that odious lighthouse they installed downtown with full lights blazing all night long to crash ship... er draw in the faithful..
Here's an example of some of the crap they pull:
http://www.jacksonville.com/news/column ... _troubling Posters from Jax who somehow heard about FBC in 2006 and are not syuni:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/archive/i ... 38134.htmlWikipedia has heard of FBC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_G._Lindsay,_Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Bapt ... cksonvilleIf you did live in Jacksonville, I don't know how you missed them.
Is this a joke? Your first link is the only one that hints of the vast government/church cabal that Syuni references. I can give you link upon link of corrupt large churches. There are churches in Atlanta with pastors driving Rolls Royces and under indictment. No evidence of shady, hypocritical assholes running churches proves Syuni's point that FBC "runs" Jacksonville. Does that mean those churches run Atlanta? Will I be pulled over by the ATL PD because I'm daring to speak out against religious intolerance?
The second link blames FBC for Jacksonville's infrastructure, which is laughable. Furthermore, the second link is a comment from a visitor. Shall I find similar comments about every city in America? But I'll humor you and take on each of the points one by one.
Jax beach held up as the epitome of proper development - have you ever been there? Jax beach is a *shit hole*. Fernandina, St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra, basically every beach surrounding Jax Beach is far nicer.
The Landing? Really? Town Center is an example of how to do shopping properly, not the landing. The landing has nothing going on, is completely empty all of the time and is a huge failure. THAT's the example the poster uses of "good" downtown development?
Last but not least, the most laughable part is where the poster blamed FBC for the fact that Jax could not handle the Super Bowl. Pro tip - if your plans involves shipping in cruise ships because your city doesn't have the hotel rooms to host the super bowl - perhaps you're just not quite ready for it yet.
Again, who is it that isn't connected to Jacksonville? The fact you posted a link with those comments is eye opening. Your other two links are what lead me to believe you're trolling. One is a wikipedia link with no data.
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Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name.
The second is a boilerplate wikipedia entry for the church itself, but contains nothing about.. anything. It's a standard wikipedia page. Many churches have that - who cares? My church with 380 Sunday attendance has a wikipedia page.