No doubt.
However although I don’t view the buildings as holy, I have a great respect for the unique aesthetic, and architectural language that is unique to Churches. For me in particular the Byzantine and it’s many orthodox revolutions.
This thread is not about theology. Please take that elsewhere. It is about art.
Actually, you have it backwards. People who truly respect and admire architecture understand it is the "art" of matching form to function. Churches, believe it or not (that's a pun, FYI), have a function - to provide a place for the worship of God.
And Jesus (the particular focus of virtually ALL churches), declared that the Kindom of God is within the human being.
Now follow me here, because this next step is really tricky - that means human beings are the original "churches."
And whaddya know, great cathedrals have been even laid out in the human form.
So I'll tellya what - you take your artistic sneers elsewhere. Put on your black leather jacket over your black t-shirt with your black jeans and black boots, go have a frappachino and do some research. Then when you come back, you can re-read my post with an undestanding of it's artistic, architectually appropriate meaning.
But I do feel for you - imagine someone bringing up God in an artistic discussion about churches! What knuckledraggers some people are!