“Not quite. More to the point, the theological error was part of what had lead them to build a fairly grandiose building in that setting, in the first place.”
And yet smaller presumably less grandiose churches were demolished, one of them Catholic. And no protests were reported. Truly strange, on several levels. For sure.
NonCatholic Christians had a bigger church that was also torn down. They protested it. Like how humans do sometimes. The only explanation was Romanist theological error’ of building a grandiose meeting place which caused them to protest like how someone does when they are riddled with Romanist theological error. It’s the only explanation.
Freegards
Yes. Naturally enough.
Why double up on the Romanist theological error part? Trying to make sure that get's well enough covered? I mean, if you want to get started with that we could be here for days? ;^')
But you are getting warmer, for the error was attributed to being "owned" by Rome, even as it was also acknowledged was present elsewhere too.
Perhaps too entirely blaming the shortcomings of human nature on the Latin church is a bit much? If one thought so, then I can understand that...and readily enough agree. Yet the Romanists did develop a taste for imposing architecture -- to better project a sense of "power" much as governments to this day like to build for themselves domed palaces. ANd then there was that guy in SoCal who had the "Crystal Cathedral" built (with donations from church goers or those otherwise endorsing the idea). Last I heard, the church which built it could not keep up with the maintenance cost so sold the building. The window washing bill must be sky-high?
"Rome" is not alone in this sort of thinking, obviously. Yet the man didn't say it was, even as he did lay that tendency towards the "grandiose" or more precisely perhaps -- the perception that persons were mistaking church buildings or meeting places for that which is gathered therein concerning, as being chiefly "Rome's" theological error.
Is it? Or is it yet another of those mixtures of that which is intended to be "holy", with stuff which isn't so much? Is that part of the "story" of Christianity, or what?