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Haven't the churches been [historically] oppressive?
I get that it's popular to hate on religion too ;), so I suppose that's ironic to some.
Shouldn't churches evoke feelings of divinity instead of oppression? (I know it's popular to hate on brutalist architecture, but really isn't a place of worship the last place you'd want it?)
Why are you finding brutalist architecture oppressive?
The example brutalist churches in another post here look like someone doing a horrible experiment in the Sims made buildings without bothering to use anything but some default wall texture they found buried in the dev tools that doesn’t even tile very well, because they just needed a place to torture Sims in and don’t care what it looks like.
Yeah, that comes off as oppressive.
By the way, it's a great sci-fi show and I was very saddened when I heard HBO Max canceled it (during its transition to Max). I unsubscribed from them and I'm boycotting them due to this hostility.
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I get that it's popular to hate on religion too ;), so I suppose that's ironic to some.
is it though like really? >6 billion people in the world actively identify with one religion or another but in terms of ratio there are more memes on social media about athesim than religions at least on my AI curated feed
https://modernmooch.com/2018/08/19/trinity-united-reform-chu...
Somewhat terrifying when they light up the front in red at night.
These all look like churches that I would encounter with blood everywhere in the middle of a first-person shooter. They also look like total acoustical nightmares. All that echo-ey concrete, yikes.
Others are so badly designed you need literally millions in audio equipment to have a simple choir.
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Why are you finding brutalist architecture oppressive?
They tend to look like something someone who didn’t give a shit made. “I just need a box for people to be in, who cares what it looks like?” The example brutalist churches in another post here look like someone doing a horrible experiment in the Sims made buildings without bothering to use anything but some default wall texture they found buried in the dev tools that doesn’t even tile very well, because they just nee…
Early modern churches direct you to the preacher.
Modern churches direct you to the architect. (Or building repair services depending on whom you ask.)
It seems like most new churches in Finland are brutalist concrete slabs at least from outside. They are called "defense bunkers against devil" Some pictures: https://twitter.com/sorjonen_fi/status/916606080154767361 https://twitter.com/ArtoNatkynmaki/status/168386825764259020... https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/piruntorjuntabunkkeri#/media/...
However there's also the church in the rock which is absolutely stunning and worth a visit. https://www.temppeliaukionkirkko.fi/en/index/nimi.html#