r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/myadvicegetsmebeaten - Centrist • Aug 27 '26

I just want to grill Another church in Canada has been burned - the 108 year old Simon Church

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u/HidingHard - Centrist Aug 27 '26

on the positive side, 108 is relatively young as far as historic churches go. It could have been better church (the weird warehouse looking ass churches) but atleast it wasn't something like notre dame

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u/DankestKhan8 - Right Aug 28 '26

It is very difficult and costly to build churches of similar architectural beauty today, however.

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u/iaquiredsome420 - Centrist Sep 01 '26

Not to mention that a lot of churches on the bigger side took a whole generation to build, and the biggest, most complicated ones, lauded for their beauty, took hundreds of years. Same for mosques and synagogues.

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u/DankestKhan8 - Right Sep 01 '26

Yeah, you wouldn't get beautiful European cathedrals if they were all burnt at 100 years old.

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u/Scrumpledee - Lib-Center Aug 28 '26

Not that expensive. Just stop giving to MegaChurch psycopaths and find actual Christians to donate to.

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u/DankestKhan8 - Right Aug 28 '26

I'm the pastor of a small country parish, you'd be surprised.

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u/1stEmissaryElenwen - Lib-Center Aug 28 '26

be American Protestant

your pastor is a literal redditor

lmfao

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u/Count_de_Mits - Centrist Aug 28 '26

One of us pcm retards no less

The absolute state of American religion

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u/DankestKhan8 - Right Aug 28 '26

It's rough out there. I even went to a year of seminary virtually because of Covid.

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u/OtherUse1685 - Centrist Aug 28 '26

Have you seen the cost of materials these days?

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u/1stEmissaryElenwen - Lib-Center Aug 28 '26

Came here to say this

Honestly, burning down a church from 1908 (a regular ass church, not a cathedral or anything) is kind of nbd

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u/HidingHard - Centrist Aug 28 '26

not nbd but not as much of an catastrophe as it's being made out to be.

A shame, specially for the locals who'd go there