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sunny-dave | 17:57 Tue 06th Oct 2015 | ChatterBank
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I was in France last week - wonderful break full of wine and good food and culture.

Whilst there I visited Conques - a beautiful mediaeval village in the Lot valley - and had a look round the Abbey and its exhibition of 'treasures'.

The Tresor was just awe-inspiring - work from over 1,000 years ago that was beyond belief in terms of its skill and artistic (as well as monetary) value. I was genuinely moved to tears by some of the pieces.

But none of it would have been created (or survived) without the Roman Catholic Church - an organisation almost without parallel in terms of the damage it has done to the world over the last two millennia.

So should I have even visited the Tresor? I'd be a poorer person for not having seen it - but ultimately I've been supporting an organisation I would rather see expunged from history.

Tricky :(
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Amazing craftmanship and a quandary indeed. I'd be in the same position. I would go, look, be awestruck and then wish it wasn't what it was.
Agree, at what cost were these treasures acquired!
It is a tricky one, Dave....I have been there and been in awe of the workmanship and probably love that was put into these treasures.....but my dislike of....well hatred for...the RC church puts me in a quandary too...x
I've never been there but have been to the Valley of the Fallen in Spain and, what a revelation that was. Have rarely been reduced to tears in my life but, that place did it to me. So much so, I know I could never revisit.

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