Why do churches frighten me?

That’s so remarkably inaccurate I almost can’t believe you said it. And I say that as an Atheist. Churches (of the more grand catholic cathedral style you seem to be referring to) are specifically designed to evoke a powerful will of spirit. The architecture is meant to uplift, always adorned with bright beautiful arrays of artwork. It’s also specifically designed to have perfect, reverb-filled acoustics to allow the music services to offer a sense of transcendence.

The idea that they’re designed to “frighten” you is simply and amazingly not true. Even just a cursory introduction into world history studies would inform you of how untrue that is.

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