[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“What a crock!”

No, it is true. History makes that obvious: literally millions of acts of Protestant iconclasm, Puritan dourness and the Puritan confusion of plainnes with simpleness, the barrenness of most Protestant churches, the blandness of most modern Protestant music (which has unfortunately crept into the Catholic parish in the last 45 years), etc.

[BnBlFlag]

You wrote:

“What a crock!”

No, it is true. History makes that obvious: literally millions of acts of Protestant iconclasm, Puritan dourness and the Puritan confusion of plainnes with simpleness, the barrenness of most Protestant churches, the blandness of most modern Protestant music (which has unfortunately crept into the Catholic parish in the last 45 years), etc.

I happen to be a Lutheran - Missouri Synod and was raised an Episcopalian. You are painting with an awfully large brush! The Episcopal Churches I have belonged to or visited have been every bit as beautiful if not more so than the Catholic Churches. And the services are more beautiful (And tradtitional - Rite 1). And the Lutheran Church - MS can hold it’s own.
And the music is infinitely better.

[boatbums]

So, of course, because “your” church is the prettiest, the fanciest, the best musically, the purest liturgically, the closest to “heaven-like”, the sweetest smelling, the...., it is therefore, the most true?

Who do you think is most impressed by the grandeur? God or man???

Psalm 51:16-17
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.