Go to really nice looking cathedral in town

>Go to really nice looking cathedral in town
>There's a fucking giftshop in it
>They're also literally charging you to look around

Anglicanism.
Not even once.

Cathedrals and churches are expensive to maintain. To the tune of several thousand a day.

I think the major ones are free, but the more minor ones are self-funded, so you can't really begrudge them their continued existence and upkeep.

What is a purpose of a cathedral? Why someone can't pray on a hill or a small mountain, created, as they think, by God, instead of using a house created by humans?

Priest said so, fedora cuck.

they're testaments to the ingenuity and accomplishment of mankind

even if we all unanimously decided there was no God it would be worth preserving cathedrals as cultural treasures

art

this. but for god's sake find a different way to maintain it than a fucking gift shop

cathredals should be owned by the state and funded with tax money

>Go to really nice looking cathedral in town
>There's a shop where you can buy candles in it
>There's a gallery of Icons in the crypt bellow it
>Ask a really polite abbot if I could go to the bell tower
>He says it's off limits but leads me there anyway.
>No charge whatsoever

Why is Orthodoxy so biased Veeky Forums?

>biased
You mean based?

to create AWE

Yeah, obviously "based" isn't a word my auto correct is familiar with so "biased" it is

>Find a different way than a gift shop
I'm sure they're open to suggestions oh wise one.

It's £10 to enter York Minster
I heard £18 for St Paul's

A woman on Tripadvisor has written a review for York Minster, claiming a worker there said "Catholic Churches get funding from Rome!"
That made me laugh, and I'm an Anglican (thinking of going full-Papist though)

They say it's for people who're there to admire the architecture, etc, not the devotees, but it makes you feel compelled to give donations

Also, as a minority church, surely they should be making themselves attractive to Catholics/Orthodox/etc?

They're between the devil and the deep blue sea - too liberal and progressive to be even considered Christian, but too conservative for da yoof. Visiting an Anglican church is like attending a tea party for gays and grannies. It's all OAPs and camp vicars. I've even heard some of them discuss whether God even exists, as if that's normal for a man peddling God's [apparently] divine word.

>go to the small town church
>a little shop that sells icons and candles too
>greeted by the priest who knows me since I was born
>knows my family and pretty much everyone in town
>talk to him about collage and how I'm doing there
>gives me a small wooden cross and tells me it will help me study
>I thank him

Ah Orthodoxy

as I understand it european churches don't have much in the way of parishioners so of course there isn't anyone that feels compelled to support their upkeep

Dude if this is St Anne's in Belfast let me tell you a tale

Be me
>Christian
>Hard 5 years
>Dad gets sick
>Church goes through civil war
>Get dumped
>Missionary work dream falls apart.
>Pretty much collapse mentally
>Stumble into St Annes for solace
>Go to the chapel of unity
>Literally cry my self hoarse
>Pray and ask God for strenght
>Visit St Annes habitually
>Pray and give God thanks
>Get new GF
>Want to propose somewhere special
>St Anne's
>Buy ring get dressed up real nice
>Enter St Annes
>About to take her into the chapel of unity to propose
>Palms are sweaty etc
>Some guy "Er you need to pay."
>COSTS ME 20 NOTES TO PROPOSE
>Says yes tho

Churches of historical or artistic significance should get some kind of state maintenance grants.

High Anglican reporting in. OP is a butt mad papist

different user but they could improve their evangelism so people would freely choose to tithe them

That pic is missing the Anglican priest's boyfriend.

Good point. I'll update the pic so that the Anglican has a boyfriend... oh and I might as well throw in the little boy that the papist is molesting as well!

glad it worked out user

AND IT WAS PREDESTINED THAT THE DISSENTERS WOULD REMAIN PURE.

Oy vey, that would violate the separation of church and state goy!

It is expensive and they aren't aided like the Catholic Church is.

That's what they get for being schismatics.

and his boyfriend's wife's son