So far, I have featured businesses and weapons of mass destruction based on nothing but hot air. This news article I saw on the Sydney Morning Herald web site almost shocked me beyond words.

Fortunately, I was able to recover on time to report.

Michael Gill, a British designer, has created the world’s first inflatable church. This grey plastic building has a blow-up organ, pulpit, altar, Gothic arches, fake stained glass windows and stands at 14m high.

Gill says that if people won’t go to church, the church needs to go to them. Vicars could simply carry one at the back of a truck, and blow it up for impromptu services.

However, Gill’s selfish money-making ambitions were revealed in the article. At first, he was targeting the Anglicans. Then he confessed that he has also written to the Pope to convince him to buy one too. He also plans to market his product to Korea, Belgium and the USA.

You can’t build a church based on hot air. It’s time to get back to some good old fashioned Bible preaching, and Bible-bash some sense into people.