Right, they squander the money on the things of this life that have no eternal value. IIRC, that welcome center in the pix above is newly built and perhaps got into MORE debt over that. But they sold property, the article stated for $55M and they are still in major debt.
I didn’t complete the article. Did it say if that property is for sale?
So I suppose the same must be said about Westminster Abbey, St. Peter’s, the Duomo in Milan and St. Isaac’s in St. Petersburg — all massive megalith wastes of money that could have been better spent elsewhere. Sorry, i see them the same way I see the Crystal Cathedral - a building created by man to glorify God with soaring spires, grand internal spaces and architectural artwork telling us humans that there are better things that the mundane to worship and aspire to.