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La Basilica Di San Pietro

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jpgvm ◴[] No.42196357[source]
Seeing a digital version of it in such detail only further reinforces how important it is to experience it in person.

Few sights of man-made things have instilled as much awe in me as La Basilica Di San Pietro and most of them are also in Rome (namely the Pantheon and Moses @ Basilica di San Pietro in Vincoli).

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UncleOxidant ◴[] No.42197909[source]
You can't understand the scale of it until you experience it in person. The way I thought of it was that it is a cathedral made for giants.
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1. rvnx ◴[] No.42198374[source]
It's also a symbol of all the money and gold, the real values and the secrets of the church...

If God exists, you think he would want you to sacrifice and spend it all on gold and salaries of locals ?

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2. Tabular-Iceberg ◴[] No.42198640[source]
Clearly yes if we go by the Bible. Then we should be happy to get away with just gold and labor and not our children like Isaac.