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They've been doing that to cathedrals for 𝚝̶𝚠̶𝚎̶𝚕̶𝚟̶𝚎̶ seventeen centuries, why would they stop doing it now?

• dragonwriter 5y ago
  For reasons of expense (and some others) its usually pretty gradual with cathedrals, plus, most active cathedrals — those that are still operating as episcopal seats — are not owned by a State that wavers between indifferent and actively hostile to the Church. And even modest remodels of cathedrals (or even parish churches, or auxiliary buildings like parish halls) tend to be controversial, without Church-State tension, or larger scale remodeling of the type at issue here.
  • TuringTest 5y ago
    It was not gradual when the cathedral suffered a fire or a collapse. They would rebuild a traditional romanesque basilica in a gothic fantasy of endless towers seeking the sky; or they would install a baroque dome and façade, completely modernising the appearance of the building.
    • dragonwriter 5y ago
      > It was not gradual when the cathedral suffered a fire or a collapse. Yeah, my point is that those are unusual events, resulting in bigger remodels and associated larger controversies, while even the more routine remodels tend to be controversial. That is, while the event precipitating it may be somewhat unusual, the situation resulting from the precipitating event, including the large proposed modernizing remodel and the controversy over it, is not at all an abnormal result of such an event.
• tablespoon 5y ago
  > They've been doing that to cathedrals for 𝚝̶𝚠̶𝚎̶𝚕̶𝚟̶𝚎̶ seventeen centuries, why would they stop doing it now? Because not all "modern contexts" are equivalent. We're at a point now where the "modern context" is so cheap it's become boring and mundane.