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Originally Posted by RueBulmer
As a Catholic kid who was having misgivings about organized religion the Oratory gave me the creeps.
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I think it's easier to wander in and appreciate the architecture when you're not Catholic, as you're at a remove. I enjoy browsing around big old churches and cathedrals in South America and Europe, and the masses themselves seem so impersonal and institutional that they don't bother me if I happen upon a service in progress (respectively looking on from the back).
It's those smaller, more intimate proceedings in the Protestant tradition that give me the willies...