Why are Roman Catholics so organized? (Earth, church, muslim, Mormon)

[Djamila]

Reza took a few photos of southern Bosnia, via helicopter - and they're awesome, but something really strikes me: why are Roman Catholics so organized?

Muslim towns:




Roman Catholic Towns:




They look the same to me from the ground, I don't know. But looking at it from the air, it seems so different?

[SoyLeche]

You haven't seen any Mormon towns, have you? They are the most organized that I've ever seen.

Could it have anything to do with the geography that they had to work with? It's harder to orgainize on hills than it is on plains.

[Halcyon]

Originally Posted by Djamila

Reza took a few photos of southern Bosnia, via helicopter - and they're awesome, but something really strikes me: why are Roman Catholics so organized?

Maybe it stems from an architectural link to the Roman Empire?

I think aesthetically, that i prefer the look of the top two towns, straight lines and geometric shapes don't really do it for me, i prefer the freeform villagesque look.

[Random]

Catholics have a strong sense of order and many of the worlds greatest most inventive architects were RC. They're just naturally neat and tidy, methinks.

[PureX]

Symetry and heirarchy are traits shared by the Romans and the Roman Catholic Church's architects. They were never big on living with nature, or allowing natural processes to choose their own course. They preferred the very masculine method of interacting with the world around them: force and domination. And from as far back as the Greeks, mathematics and geometry were considered "divine" while the chaos of nature was viewed as ignorance and desire sort of run amok. Western culture in general reflects this masculine will to dominate the environment through logic and reason, etc., rather than to tak the more feminine course of living with the Earth instead of on it.