I call your attention, paradoxically, to Larkin's, Church Going, for what is more than aesthetic & which is never obsolete, or so I think.
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What is that? I'm not sure it will apply to me.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5aKknj-q3o … If you've got a spare 4:05, enjoy.
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But this is what I mean by the aesthetic of churches. The atmosphere. The feel of them.
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Afraid you'd think that. He starts there, but then doesn't it shift to the deeper, essential resonance of purpose & connectedness?
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Sure. The psychological & social needs filled by religion are well-known.
@Goddoesnt wrote a book about it. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B016TX3RP6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 … -
Not proselytizing, just quibbling w/ the seemingly dismissive, "aesthetic thing." Partial to churches - like to see them get their due:)
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I just mean that the pleasure taken in a church is not as important as the ethical thing of people being killed in it.
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Yes, aesthetic - but also, to me, there's a powerful poignance in the energy invested in making, say medieval churches, by people who ...
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... believed, simply or otherwise - or, let's face it, many not really at all - in the theological ideas associated with it. It's like ...
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... the memory of a kindness by a parent who really, at the time, didn't understand the problem they were trying to solve, but the effort...
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... was heartfelt and serious.
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Yes, I think that's the aesthetic pleasure in a church. The history & the care that's gone into it & the beauty of the building.
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This is nitpicking, but what I'm talking about is probably even better expressed in a badly-made building than a high-medieval masterpiece.
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Ah. There we part ways. I have felt no reverence for a church which was essentially a concrete block that ppl held religious meetings in.
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I know what u mean. If the place is v. old, tho, I think the combination of the gulf of time/understanding with architectural simplicity...
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