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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
If anything, I'd say the LDS Church is too pedestrian, cookie cutter, fixated on the practical, unimaginitive, and cheap in its buildings. They are for the most part ugly, in a word. One of Catholicism's great contributions to our civilizatoin has been an indellible aesthetic legacy and sensibility still rife even in popular culture such as Harry Potter. Perhaps more important than helping the poor is a religion's role of making our spirits soar with the grandeur of its symbolism and art. Even the Salt Lake temple is tiny and simple compared to many great European cathedrals and basilicas.
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Of course Catholicsim's greatest monuments were built on the backs of the poor. Not that the poor cared, as most almost certainly believed in what they were doing in a way that is probabyl hard for us with modern senisibioities to understand and appreciate.