It's not a church it's a symbol of national identity that makes people feel less insignificant. If they have one less symbol of themselves then they are less of themselves then they were the day before. Without those things we'd all be living in soviet housing blocks eating gruel.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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