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Originally Posted by CeratodusDuck
A true shame, regardless of your religion.
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I don't have a religious bone in my body but I still find this a shocking loss to humanity. Along with York Minster, Hagia Sophiaand (and few others I couldn't name) it is one of the world's great buildings. Jacob Bronowski said in The Ascent of Man that such buildings, even though they were built as monuments to God (or Allah or Buddha or whoever), stand as monuments to the people who built them. (And, please, I'm discussing human endeavor and achievement, not religion!)