A beautiful monument though understandably anaethma to the Western liberal, particularly the American. The Church is actually a chimera, a fusion of the Byzantine State-Church with the Leninist Party-State into a Russian Party-State-Church in a sumptuous art-deco style. It's very
existence is should be an abomination to someone who conceptualizes all three as separate entities. Though in practice the West functionally operates a trinity in the same manner already, just without any Gods, so I suspect the true sin is not Heresy but Idolatry.
The eternal Puritan sits in judgement over the Roman for daring to display icons of their God and their natural iconoclasm makes their fingers twitch for a sledgehammer.
