As someone who has seen the distorting mirror of religion close up, and the way it informs behaviour and opinion, often for the worse, I still say a building is just a building. No-one should have preconceptions about my views because I inhabit their space and I accept no top-down edicts on what I should think or do because someone in fancy clothes says so.

If I have a gripe it's about the way all belief has been placed in the bogeyman category, especially since 9/11 and the proselytising of pseudo-skeptics and politicians for a new and better way. Neither do I recognise the They're Out To Get You evangelism of atheist folk lore. Apart from some smartly dressed Jehovah's witnesses who come round every three years nobody ever tries to evangelise me an I go into religious buildings of various kinds regularly. If they did I'd put their pitch on the same level as an advert for a new car, i.e. I'm sure it's very nice but no thanks.

Belief in things, capitalism, science, politics, religion are inately human traits but a building is just bricks and wood.