The church is to me not some symbol of repression, ignorance, and backwardness, but rather an impressive sophistication of manners. The church signals the maturity of the human spirit, its adulthood not its infancy. It is one of the great products of the human heart, intellect, and imagination.
Still, not sure how even a rudimentary temple -- forget something so grand and complicated -- could be constructed without the sort of technologies only produced by generations of intellectual labor. And how could such specialized activities occur except within the confines of a rooted society? Seems sort of cart-before-horse.
Even so, this is a pretty incredible find: A vast, beautiful temple complex predating the great pyramids by many thousands of years. A magnificent testament to human existential angst and ecstasy and our need for the organized working out of such. If worship sparked civilization, is it not essential sustenance?
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