Things Seen on the Road - World’s Largest Cross
I love leaving the comfy ideological lock-step of California to see how the universe is organised outside. While my home city and state are by no manner deprived of religion, or even the “extreme religion” of the truly devout, Christianity’s oddities in California have an outpost quality. I look at my road trips as an opportunity to explore the head-space of my fellows, something that’s difficult to do unless you experience the environments that shape their lives.
While it’s certainly not threatening, there’s something very alien to urban me about places that are religiously homogeneous.
There’s nothing like this back home, a 2-300′ white metal cross, on a tiny hill (hillock perhaps?), surrounded by an assortment of other crosses. You can’t see them here, but there’s always a crowd of folks milling about at the bottom, looking tiny and almost mysteriously reverent at the foot of the symbol of their god. I love how the giant cross mirrors the telephone and electrical poles that run along the highway. Someone should build the “World’s Biggest Telephone/Electrical Pole” with giant Dale Chihuly sculpted resistors.
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July 1st, 2007 at
Oh man, Mike and I drove by that thing in an insane blizzard. It loomed up ahead, actually looking black in the storm, and all these cars were swerved off the side of the road, stuck in snow banks. It was all so apocalyptic. In the storm, I didn’t see all the other little crosses– only the great big one.