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La Basilica Di San Pietro

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145 points geox | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 15:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.25s | source
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jpgvm ◴[20 Nov 24 17:40 UTC] 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 ◴[20 Nov 24 20:43 UTC] 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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rvnx ◴[20 Nov 24 21:38 UTC] 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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Tabular-Iceberg ◴[20 Nov 24 22:11 UTC] 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.
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graemep ◴[21 Nov 24 13:35 UTC] No.42204174[source]▶
The entire point of the story was that God did NOT want a child sacrifice.

In the historical context of other religions in the region demanding human sacrifices that is the message of the story.

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1. Tabular-Iceberg ◴[21 Nov 24 15:25 UTC] No.42205196[source]▶
Yes, but then the entire rest of it is all about every other type of sacrifice, culminating with that of God himself on the cross, and the Catholic mass is a continuation of that exact sacrifice.

And almost every other religion also practices sacrifice in one form of the other, so if God exists, the one thing that we can be sure about is that he does expect sacrifice.