re: #301 Gretchen G.Tiger

Ignoring Church and it’s history is also ignoring Western History. Not to mention the Arts and Engineering sciences.

I don’t go to church either, but if I have the opportunity to do so in a building that I want to see —I’m more than willing to sit thru the Mass.

I had to do so in D.C. one time. I wanted to see the Bascilica there and the only time we had was on a Sunday morning. IT is beautiful, BTW. I also learned how International Catholics are. I sat in a congregation of people from all over the world. People in their cultural garb, all following different nuances of the same rituals. Everyone knew the Mass, it didn’t matter that it was in English.

It was really very cool—as an educational exercise. Didn’t make me want to take communion or anything, yet I really got a lot out of it. Which is probably the point of it all—regardless of what the fanatics say.

Crawled through half the old churches north of Rome with agnostic eyes. Our village had an ex-Arian Longobard church (still in occasional use) from the sixth century.

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