And so while my colleagues were building these cathedrals great and tall and buying property outside of the city and moving their congregations out so that they could create or recreate their cities of God, the social structures in the inner cities were sagging under the weight of all of this violence.
私の同僚が 高くて立派な大聖堂を建てたり 郊外に不動産を買ったり 集会の場所を変えたりして 「神の都市」を作ろうとしていた頃 市街地の社会構造は この暴力の重圧に 押しつぶされていました