(November 10, 2023 at 6:19 am)Belacqua Wrote:(November 9, 2023 at 9:53 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: If we follow Bel's line, could we argue that being religious for a large part of one's life and then being atheist for a large portion, would grant one the best possible appreciation of art?
Interesting. Lol
It might. Though sad to say simply being religious doesn't mean that a person has access to the kind of Christian thought that Dante requires of us. Or Michelangelo, or Bach.
I would say that the deeper our understanding and appreciation for Christian thought is, the more deeply we are able to see into Christian art. This wouldn't necessarily require that a person be a believer himself. Though it would require that one not recoil in disgust from anything non-atheist.
Yeah, I don't even understand that mentality, it's like, you wouldn't even be here if religion wasn't a thing, why do you hate it so much? I mean really, why do you?
"Imagination, life is your creation"
