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I don’t think that’s what was meant, and I don’t think you need to be Christian to feel uneasy seeing a once-venerated place being demolished. Seeing an old temple or synagogue being torn down isn’t preferable, either.
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If it's a sign of spirituality dying perhaps, but if it's a sign of demographic shifts (more christians in the suburbs, more folks of other faiths in the core) then it doesn't really bother me. A dying school is sad in my opinion as it says more about the health of the community, but even that can just be result of improved transit options.
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Originally Posted by HillStreetBlues
But who cares really. It’s just our heritage.
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No, it's just an old building. If you think that a cultural heritage is so weak that tearing a building down can damage it then you don't understand how good most cultures are at grasping on to history. Nomadic peoples who don't build permanent structures can manage rich and vivid cultures. A building is just a building.
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If we really want to see old stuff, we can take a vacation in Europe.
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Yeah, because they actually have old stuff. I said something about Detroit having a historic core to a European and they utterly confused by calling mid 19th to early 20th century historic.
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