Nah, it’s erosion
Well now that’s just silly. Why would God build a cathedral upside-down and buried in the ground?
(Not knocking the protecting public and indigenous lands part. Just saying a big hole in the ground doesn’t have to be “God”‘s doing. Shout out to the Colorado River here; peace be upon it, or what’s left of it.)
“God’s Cathedral” sounds more odd the more I think about it. What are all those other cathedrals about, then? Aren’t they all “God’s cathedrals”? Or is the canyon a place for God to worship himself?
I mean, I get that he finds the Grand Canyon “sublime” and “spiritual” and all that, and I gather a cathedral is also a supremely “sublime” and “spiritual” place for him, but to me a cathedral is a beautiful building, made by people for a purpose. I can’t attach that purpose to the Grand Canyon.
Maybe it means what a cathedral would look like if God built it? But then, again…why so upside down and hard to get to?
Workforce of zero, no blueprint, no budget. I think He did a pretty good job. Though it does make me wonder why He covered the Mid Atlantic Ridge with water and why He built Valles Marineris on Mars. Given the timescales involved, construction of God’s Cathedral makes Sagrada Famillia and all those medieval piles look like slap-dash, fly-by-night, hack-jobs.
I guess there is entry and exit from the level of the river, and from there it could look like a lot of towers and spires. Or something.
If that is God’s cathedral, you’d think he’d want to brag about it. I mean, it’s an impressive bit of architecture; the architect should feel proud. And yet he didn’t even reveal his existence to the locals until the Europeans started showing up a few hundred years ago.
But then God seems reluctant to reveal himself to anyone these days. I’m beginning to think that he’s pathologically reticent.