(June 1, 2010 at 2:56 pm)bozo Wrote: Temples and the like being nice to look at is all well and good, but I still will call them monstrous because of what they are about.
Put another way, if execution and torture were being carried out in them, does that make a difference to their appeal? I think it does. Sort of guilt by association.
Lets look at it this way. The Kremlin in Moscow is a spectacularly beautiful group of buildings:
![[Image: 429620-Moscow_Kremlin_Moscow.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=cache.virtualtourist.com%2F429620-Moscow_Kremlin_Moscow.jpg)
But to say that bad things have happened in the Kremlin would be a very big understatement. Mass murder has been plotted within the Kremlin walls repeatedly.
But its still really pretty, at least I think it is. I love Byzantine and old Russian architecture, and old Russian architecture doesn't come any better than this. So I guess I don't buy into guilt by association.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Mikhail Bakunin
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mikhail Bakunin
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche
