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What I Don’t Believe but Know
Why beliefs are not facts.
Colored windows and bling
Outside of Orthodox and Catholic churches, chapels, basilicas, and cathedrals, Jainist, Buddhist, and Hindu temples, and the who-can-top-whom mosques in the Arab world, the desire to decorate interiors to the hilt is found most often in rooms designed for royalty or casino high rollers.
The 15th Rawat of Deogarh asked to meet me during a visit to his city. He offered an opportunity to visit the private apartment built by his great-grandfather. It is a jewel box at the top of the palace-turned hotel.
The space is a bit kitschy compared to houses of worship. Nonetheless, the opulence has the same aim: the glorification of a higher power.
As ancient Egyptian temples attest, magnificence in architecture has long been a trademark of believers wanting to demonstrate just how much they believe in their gods.
Defining belief
Human beings are incapable of knowing an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent being or force or whatever without…
