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Giant elaborate churches are a substitute for faith and an overcompensation for a lack of faith.
>but muh beauty
Irrelevant
>muh feelings
You're feeling the demons possessing the idols there.
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>>17430069
By your logic, humanity shouldn't do *anything* cool because it might be construed as showboating.
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>>17430069
You are correct that building and maintaining beautiful churches is not a substitute for faith, but to suggest it is idolatry is absurd.
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This is just done to keep the peasants busy and in awe and the tradesmen happy.
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It is my opinion the tech these churches used to have could heal. Not only through music but whatever else there was that was powered through the aether.
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>>17430069
It is the house of God, a fortress for his respite and for him to deliberate regarding his will for the earth, a bulwark against the dark which seeks his destruction.
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Protestants now have to claim the Middle Ages lacked faith because admitting to how much their movement secularized Europe would be too much for them to handle.
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>>17430069
God is beautiful
Beauty is an attribute of God
If churches are beautiful people think of beauty
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>>17430069
>Beauty is irrelevant
Die.
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>>17430108
>but to suggest it is idolatry is absurd.
Nobody in their right mind suggested that.



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