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02.2002
In Hawthorn’s “The Scarlet Letter” he describes how we, as a society, build our societies. The first structure to be raised is the church, shortly followed by the cemetery and then ultimately the prison. This pattern is indicative of the sheer importance of the church in the life of a local community. A church’s primary objective is to preach the morals to the people, in order to make the people act right. But does the structure of the church have anything to do with the relay of morals onto society? Does having an elaborate and immaculate structure dedicated to the supreme being of your choice, in our case the Christian God, complicate the basic church function of supplying the populous with moral stability? In this example, I will compare the structure versus functionality differences using a Roman Catholic, and a small Episcopal church.
Thesis:
The design and construction of the Roman-Catholic church complicates the typical role that the church plays in society. With its immaculate statues, and stunning artwork the church must be maintained and supported, requiring the church to function much more as a business than as the typical preacher of morals.
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