{"id":20666,"date":"2013-04-04T17:42:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T17:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=20666"},"modified":"2013-04-04T17:42:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T17:42:59","slug":"airdropping-the-church-militant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=20666","title":{"rendered":"Airdropping the Church Militant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; out of the clear blue&#8230; ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SPEC-flying-church.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SPEC-flying-church.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC flying church\" width=\"593\" height=\"621\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SPEC-flying-church.png 593w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SPEC-flying-church-286x300.png 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I suppose you could think of this double image as representing &#8220;the ideal&#8221; (above) and &#8220;the real&#8221; (below).  In actuality, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/seeking_synergy\/photos\/35661937#%7B%22ImageId%22%3A35661937%7D\">upper image<\/a> is of &#8220;Cathedral Balloon @ Balloon Fiesta &#8217;08&#8221; &#8212; while the lower image is of an actual Russian army chapel, of which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/architecture-design-blog\/2013\/apr\/02\/russian-army-flying-church\">the Guardian notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The latest addition to the Russian military arsenal takes the form of an airborne church complete with parachuting priests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Fr <strong>John Peck<\/strong> over at <a href=\"http:\/\/frjohnpeck.com\/flying-chapels-and-parachuting-priests\/\">The Orthodox Church of Tomorrow<\/a> gleefully tosses us this image from the <strong>Russian Airborne Force Press-Service<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cartoon-parachuting-priests1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cartoon-parachuting-priests1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20671\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Not until that rather boxy parachuting chapel equals and indeed surpasses the great mediaeval cathedrals in splendor will we begin to be on our way to Revelation 21.21:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Hat-tip to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mchlrbnsnblogs\">Michael Robinson<\/a><\/strong>, my &#8220;go to&#8221; source (what an abysmal phrase, but language is never static. eh?) for all things antiquarian, aesthetic and ecclesial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; out of the clear blue&#8230; ] . I suppose you could think of this double image as representing &#8220;the ideal&#8221; (above) and &#8220;the real&#8221; (below). In actuality, the upper image is of &#8220;Cathedral Balloon @ Balloon Fiesta &#8217;08&#8221; &#8212; while the lower image is of an actual Russian army chapel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,497,635,39,91,676,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-israel","category-military","category-russia","category-scriptures","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20666"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20681,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20666\/revisions\/20681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}