I used to work in churches quite a bit and it’s truly fascinating. The one where i live was build in 1810. It’s pretty impressive, just to think that this is one of the first things they build back then, and how much labour and dangerous work and money and resurces went into it and how much better it could’ve been spend. I know it was a different time and having a clock tower and a place to meet people was probably important.
Going in there now is just odd.
30 years ago i didn’t know a single person who went to church for their beliefs and as for right now, not a single person goes to church, and hasn’t for maybe 10 or 15 years. Even as a 8 year old, i found it hard to believe that people really do believe all that, and going in there now, in the year 2024 it’s insane. They have all these elaborate paintings with these different saints who have all these very specific super powers. A guy is there to find lost sheeps for example. How can you look at it and don’t realise that these were just the first pretty lame avengers.
Historically, Christianity originated in pagan and polytheistic times. I believe saints being associated with this or that specific topic is to give familiarity to new converts from polytheistic faiths. Basically, there’s only one god, but this saintly specialist will put in a good word for you to him on this topic they’re a specialist on.
I used to work in churches quite a bit and it’s truly fascinating. The one where i live was build in 1810. It’s pretty impressive, just to think that this is one of the first things they build back then, and how much labour and dangerous work and money and resurces went into it and how much better it could’ve been spend. I know it was a different time and having a clock tower and a place to meet people was probably important.
Going in there now is just odd.
30 years ago i didn’t know a single person who went to church for their beliefs and as for right now, not a single person goes to church, and hasn’t for maybe 10 or 15 years. Even as a 8 year old, i found it hard to believe that people really do believe all that, and going in there now, in the year 2024 it’s insane. They have all these elaborate paintings with these different saints who have all these very specific super powers. A guy is there to find lost sheeps for example. How can you look at it and don’t realise that these were just the first pretty lame avengers.
Historically, Christianity originated in pagan and polytheistic times. I believe saints being associated with this or that specific topic is to give familiarity to new converts from polytheistic faiths. Basically, there’s only one god, but this saintly specialist will put in a good word for you to him on this topic they’re a specialist on.