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I think the very effort, the manual investment, was a form of sacrifice and honouring of god in itself. Ergo, this would be cheating. (atheist)
by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
I think the very effort, the manual investment, was a form of sacrifice and honouring of god in itself. Ergo, this would be cheating.
(atheist)
- TheCleric 3y agoI think either way this takes investment and effort. Just because you’re not chiseling it yourself doesn’t make it easy. As well one other factor is that the Carmelites are traditionally a “contemplative” order, so it may be very in line with their traditions to devote their time to God even if it’s via doing it via CAD/CAM. (Christian, non-Catholic)
- imtringued 3y agoI'm not convinced an atheist would write this comment. I mean, you are literally writing about your own religious standards.
- _a_a_a_ 3y agoPoster here - I am an atheist. I can still be sympathetic to and to an extent even understand others' belief without sharing them.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoIt's not as if cathedral designers did it themselves manually. They'd farm it out to legions of "biorobots", not all of whom did it solely for the love of God (not only did stonemasons like to feed their families, occasionally, though not that often, workers could even be prisoners of war). Obviously it was eventually done manually, with some animal effort, out of necessity, but I strongly doubt no computers, hydraulics, electrical power, carbide tips or pneumatics would have been used, had they been available.