Blog Topic: Phenology of Prayer I
I found it interesting reading about the four axioms of
sacred places. I couldn’t help but think about my time in Europe last year. I
spent a lot of my time visiting old churches and admiring their breathe-taking
structures and hear their stories, but I didn’t even feel like I was in a
church. I used to consider myself religious, but I no longer do, so being in
these churches wasn’t a religious experience for me. I was merely there to look
at the crazy architecture. I know I never entered the sacred place, but I also
know that people around me had entered. There were always people scattered
around the church kneeling in prayer. It’s weird how these axioms can separate
an average place from a sacred place for certain people. There were those who
did enter, who prayed and worshiped, while there were also those who just had
their cameras out, myself included, and didn’t think twice of the religious
significance these old buildings held to some current day people.
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