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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a lovely and historic place. Hopefully they can save quite a bit of the art. I know they are trying. But it’s not a tragedy. It’s a building. Lives lost are tragic. [/quote]

Why can’t human death AND the loss of a cultural icon both be tragic? [/quote]

Because I think had the church spent more of that money helping the common folk instead of building iconic churches then perhaps the institutions would have themselves been better organizations. Just my two cents. [/quote]

Yikes.  Way to be totally ignorant of history. The Gothic cathedrals were vehicles for teaching the illiterate masses about the Gospels and the glory of God.  The notion of "helping the common folk" was just not in play then.  Feudalism was the prevailing way of society when the Gothic cathedrals were built.  The Protestant Reformation changed some things for lower caste folk, but "helping" them didn't enter into the picture until hundreds of years later.[/quote]

I’m not ignorant of history. You just made my point. Churches like that were built for mens’ egos  [/quote]

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