Ah ok so your thesis is that after the reformation the Catholics build more beautiful churches than the Lutherans?
No. I’m saying protestant churches built like 200 years ago are much more barebones than the ones preceding the great reform. Protestantism also values humility, which is sort of why. But I can see value in awesome places despite them also signaling probably quite a corrupt clergy usually.
But in Finland we have quite a lot of stone churches built before the reform and while they’re not exactly flashy papidt churches, they’re clearly a bit flashier than the lots of wooden churches we have, and I just think the impressive stone ones are much more effective at generating awe. Which I feel is kind of a function of religion, if you’re into that. And I’m not and I still enjoy being awed, for whatever reason.
The written Finnish language is literally from the same time as the reformation, so I don’t think we can be considered to have ever really been properly catholic in the first place. The first ever Finnic text of any sort recorded is from the 13th century and the first ever recorded Finnish is apparently this:
The first known written example of Finnish itself is found in a German travel journal dating back to c. 1450: Mÿnna tachton gernast spuho sommen gelen Emÿna daÿda (Modern Finnish: “Minä tahdon kernaasti puhua suomen kielen, [mutta] en minä taida;” English: “I want to speak Finnish, [but] I am not able to”).
I just wanted to put that here for any Finns who might be reading. It’s like reading Old English. Weird, but ~readable. Sorry for the tangent.
No. I’m saying protestant churches built like 200 years ago are much more barebones than the ones preceding the great reform. Protestantism also values humility, which is sort of why. But I can see value in awesome places despite them also signaling probably quite a corrupt clergy usually.
But in Finland we have quite a lot of stone churches built before the reform and while they’re not exactly flashy papidt churches, they’re clearly a bit flashier than the lots of wooden churches we have, and I just think the impressive stone ones are much more effective at generating awe. Which I feel is kind of a function of religion, if you’re into that. And I’m not and I still enjoy being awed, for whatever reason.
The written Finnish language is literally from the same time as the reformation, so I don’t think we can be considered to have ever really been properly catholic in the first place. The first ever Finnic text of any sort recorded is from the 13th century and the first ever recorded Finnish is apparently this:
I just wanted to put that here for any Finns who might be reading. It’s like reading Old English. Weird, but ~readable. Sorry for the tangent.