More of Iglesia Ni Cristo’s “Play on Words”

by Lance • July 4, 2014 • 0 Comments

On July 27th, 2014, the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ) in the Philippines unveiled The Philippine Arena. With a seating capacity near 55,000, it is being touted as the largest domed Arena in the world. Knowing this to be a pure bullshit claim. I decided to do a little homework to confirm what I already knew.

First! The key word here folks is Arena. If we replace it with the word Complex, the rules change drastically, and their careful play-on-words is seen for what it actually is. And much like their founder, Felix Manalo. It’s pure cultist bullshit.

So rather than go through a long, lengthy argument, here are the key specifications on the INC dome. The roof spans some 160 meters in diameter and the arena itself is 62 meters in height, and has a dome of 36,000 square meters. Sure sounds big, doesn’t it.

The New Orleans Superdome at night

And now we can end this little claim-to-fame with something that has been around for nearly 40 years. The New Orleans Superdome my friends.

Its steel frame covers a 13-acre (5.3 ha) expanse. Its 273-foot (83 m) dome is made of a lamellar multi-ringed frame and has a diameter of 680 feet (210 m), making it the largest fixed domed structure in the world. It also has a seating capacity of between 73,000 – 76,000, depending on the sporting event.

INC seems to constantly be concerned with grabbing attention or making sure it appears to be better than everyone else. Recently they held a “Worldwide Walk” fund raiser for the victims of Typhoon Yolanda.

Reports claim something like 170,000+ members were involved in the Philippines. And a supposed global number close to 500,000 were involved. When it was over, INC, with their famous word-play, saw to it that everyone knew they had entered the Guinness World Records as the “the largest number of participants in a charity walk.” In fact, they kept reminding us about it, for nearly a week after the event was over. And yet, they made no mention of how much money had been raised for the Typhoon victims. But I discovered that whatever money they had raised, found its way into a housing project for the Yolanda victims. Iglesia Ni Cristo, Yolanda victims.

People in Philadelphia join hands

Once again, with a little homework, we find that INC is full of shit. I guess they figured no one would remember (let alone heard of) the “Hands Across America” fund raiser.

On the afternoon of Sunday, May 25, 1986, for 15 minutes, almost seven million people joined hands to form a line that stretched 4,152 miles (6,682 km) – from New York City’s Battery Park to the RMS Queen Mary pier in Long Beach, California.

Afterwards, no one involved with the event was concerned about getting into the Guinness record books. But they did want everyone to know they had raised over $34 million for homeless charities around the United States.

So before you get sucked into any more of INC’s cultist bullshit, take the time to do a little homework on this bunch.