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I think that the artistic decay of the Christian community has more to do with the decay of Christianity than the advance of Science. The backlash against the lavish churches of the roman catholic church has led to some churches being so minimal that they rely only on words to try to inspire people. Preachers who are not poets speak to people who have no appreciation of art who stand up and sing songs horribly out of key because the church organ is considered part of that "wrong" old school approach. So they don't sing songs written by Bach, they sing songs written by some fucking hick from teh 1960s.
Personally I want imagery. I relate art very closely to God. Walking through an old Eastern Orthodox church in greece and visiting the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque in Turkey and seeing David in Florence were by far much more religious experiences to me than going to youth group at age 15 and singing bullshit like "God makes the sky blue, God saves me and God saves you" monotonously because I had never heard the song (not that I'd ever want to.)
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