I was talking to a friend about what we should do with churches

in many places they're already being repurposed as housing, restaurants, bars, museums, etc.

>>2508277
The Japanese still have shinto shrines despite the fact hardly anyone believes in the gods. They are just part of the local tradition and the local families of means support them for it.

Thats what should happen in the west

>>2508277
>bulldoze them to the ground
kys

>>2508277
Reuse them as Museum
Religious structures are often the most beautiful achievement of a civilisation, why would you destroy it?
Unless you really hate religion

>religion becomes extinct
Fuck off,f delusional fedora.
>>2508314
Because Mommy made him go to church so he replaced the temple in his heart with a fucking ugly meme hat.

>>2508277
Make them into museums, destroying all the precious art, sculpture, and architecture would be a waste.

>>2508293
Western post modernism doesn't revere or respect their past, in fact they despise it.

>>2508277
Tell your friend he is arguing with the dumbest human being he's come into contact with.

Jesus, you're an idiot.

>>2508277
Even if you hate religion, they're based buildings. Sell them to private owners. Can you imagine how badass an old cathedral would be as a nightclub?

Like, set up the DJ's booth up on that raised pulpit off to the side and have a U-shaped bar around the altar.

They have awesome acoustics. They could be and are used for concerts.

Many will have to be bulldozed because they are not economically viable though.

>>2508339
if youre constantly looking back, youll never move forward.

Look at Europe.

>>2508618
And if you forget where you came from, you'll never know where you're going.

>>2508636
thats completely false.

>>2508643
No it isn't.

I'll even break the stream of retarded and meaningless aphorisms and explain why: How the fuck can you "move forward" (That is, """"""""""""progress"""""""""""") as a society if you don't know where you're coming from? If you don't understand WHAT YOU'RE PROGRESSING AWAY FROM in the first place? What happens when worshiping Jeff Goldblum as our lord and savior becomes the norm? What happens when slavery is "progressive" and a way to "fight inequality"?

Understanding history - which is what you're arguing against at its core - is crucial for any goal because you not only don't know what's already been tried, but have no reference for where you'll end up.

>>2508658
> this is what conservashits actually belive

>>2508748
Conservatards btfo! How will they ever recover>

>>2508643

Then why the fuck are you in /his/?

You're either new or just being pedantic.

>>2508277

The art inside and the architecture is reason enough to keep them around.

But religion is becoming more common not less. Not even a christcuck.

>>2508322
Its already happened in many European countries, and places like Japan. In China and Korea actual religious beliefs are basically non-existent, only ancestor worship and traditionalism remain.

>>2508277
Homeless shelters or crack dens

>>2508277
Libraries.

>>2509170
Not every church is the sistine chapel

Most are pretty small and kind of ugly.

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turn them into book stores (pic related), or reading rooms/ libraries if on a university campus.

If they are important enough, turn them into museums like Hagia Sophia

>>2509219

Even the places you haven't heard of from a long time ago have nice art.

>>2509260
Well the presbyterian place down the street doesn't.

>>2508277
museums, hospitals

>>2509226
Hideous.

Beats tearing them down I guess.

>>2509309
The places that look like office buildings can be turned into office buildings.

They are going to be repourpused as "universities" so le black science man and others can easily educate the masses into "science", nothing like a religion.

>>2508636
>I'm on the road to Dublin.
>Every five meters there's a signpost that says Dublin and pointing towards the city.
>eventually forget what village I left from, I still know I'm walking towards Dublin though

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>>2508618
>>2508636

>>2509196
Atheism is the fastest shrinking religion in the world
>massive population growth in pious regions (India, ME, Sub-Saharan Africa)
>rubberband effect of state atheism in Eastern Europe

>>2509545
nice alternative facts
now go look at some actual numbers

>>2509552
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippling/2016/04/16/non-religious-shrinking-the-world-is-going-to-become-more-religious/

>Atheists, agnostics and other people who do not affiliate with any religion – though increasing in countries such as the United States and France – will make up a declining share of the world’s total population.

>>2509567

I mean, it makes sense. Poor brown people breed like rabbits.

Here's from the Pew study:

At the same time, however, the unaffiliated are expected to continue to increase as a share of the population in much of Europe and North America. In the United States, for example, the unaffiliated are projected to grow from an estimated 16% of the total population (including children) in 2010 to 26% in 2050.

>>2508490
Heretic, you're gonna burn all right

>>2509500
ON THE ROCKY ROAD TO DUBALIN 1 2 3 4 5

>>2509219
Maybe in America
They're the oldest buildings in any village in Europe, and each one is unique

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>>2508748

>>2508277
>when religion inevitably becomes extinct

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAA

>inevitably
You truly live in an alternate reality.

>>2508490
>, set up the DJ's booth up on that raised pulpit off to the side and have a U-shaped bar around the altar.
Kys.Like for real

>>2508277

Is that a mosque that looks like a church or a church that looks like a mosque?

>>2508277
>we should just bulldoze them to the ground

Yeah, let's just bulldoze important pieces of our cultures and humanity to the ground. I hope you're baiting.

>>2509821
A church that looks like a church.
are you American?

>>2509825
>buildings voluntarily abandoned
>important pieces of our cultures and humanity

>>2509821
>>2509834
Mosque remodelled into church, kinda common in Spain.

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>>2509834

>hurrrrr

I thought it might have been a converted mosque from Sicily or Spain

>>2509868
That is actually the Pisa Cathedral, never used as a mosque.

>implying religion will extinct

That'll never happen as long as man remains the way he is.

>>2508277
If we reach the point where such old structures no longer serve a purpose, they can be treated as cultural heritage sites or something similar.

Not sure about all churches, but certainly the older ones should be, they really are works of art.