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>This is going to be controversial, but in the west, the ultimate cause of the decline in objective beauty is a rejection of Christianity, which, for millenia i
by AussieWog93 5y ago
>This is going to be controversial, but in the west, the ultimate cause of the decline in objective beauty is a rejection of Christianity, which, for millenia in the west, has insisted that there is such a thing as objective beauty.
Just to play Devil's advocate, if that theory held up you'd expect there to be a correlation between how religious people in a given area are and how much they value architecture.
Yet, for example, the Deep South in the USA is not known for it's architecture, whereas parts of continental Europe are (even today).
- iammisc 5y agoNo not really. Protestantism is so divorced from traditional Christianity as to be something else. Half the gospel preached is terrible new age nonsense bearing no resemblance to Christianity. If we look at more catholic countries in the Americas, the middle class neighborhoods do look nicer in my opinion. Edit: I should specify I don't believe this is specific to catholicism. Other religions also embrace beauty, like Islam and Hinduism. Protestantism by and large rejects the idea that material goods can embrace God, in their rejection of icons for examplr
- AussieWog93 5y agoFair enough. Any Irish people reading this? Which areas are more architecturally beautiful? Catholic or Protestant?
- fgnbdfgx 5y agoAre you trying to start something?
- AussieWog93 5y agoIf I was, I picked the wrong topic. Far more likely to start a punch-up here by mentioning affirmative action, US partisan politics or Rust.