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Originally Posted by theWestisDead
Nothing says 'religious pilgrimage' like praying within a sea of skyscrapers and neon lights...might as well put a mat down in central park.
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And what about the pilgrims 500 years ago trekking to Chartres Cathedral, or Notre Dame, or the Milan Duomo?
Medieval cathedrals were hardly exercises in humility, solemnity and deference to a creator. They were and still are among the most ostentatious, over-the-top, even garish paeans to any god. Certainly not humble. And the benevolent Catholic Church built these extraordinarily expensive houses of worship to tower above the hovels and shanties and straw huts of the poorest, most destitute serfs in Europe.
We love those buildings and loathe this one, and yet there is no reasonable argument I've heard for how this is any different.