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submitted 3 days ago by als to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

This is the Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul in Pléneuf-Val-André, France

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[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 days ago

I'm not religious, but it seems like a fair deal. The phone companies like to install their antennae on tall towers, they usually make them or have them made by contractors, I suppose. Having them affixed to an existing structure just makes sense. It doesn't particularly matter that it's a church, except the phone companies whose networks are served by those antennae (which I admit I can't see in the photo) would be paying the owner of the building/land, and we left-leaning folks generally don't like money flowing into churches and whatnot, but it still makes good business sense. Tall buildings come with costs, and if those can be mitigated by leasing the height to cell phone companies, I don't see a problem. It's not like the church is censoring (or even monitoring) cellular communications routed through those antennae. Most likely they don't even have access to the data.

[-] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 days ago

which I admit I can't see in the photo

[-] kubica@fedia.io 7 points 3 days ago

Nah, that's a dual exhaust.

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

Thanks. Seeing the writes helped. They blend in well.

[-] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

I don't think that there's a problem with private money flowing into churches. It's the public money and lack of tax payment that ikrs me, personally.

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