It's not rational, but I think it's common. Even knowing churches are commissioned and decommissioned like battleships, there's still that used to be God's house shadow. Back home the old Catholic church was a typical New England, white clapboard with a steeple, you'd find in a Norman Rockwell painting. When the congregation outstripped the size, they built a new brick church on the other side of town. Then when somebody converted the old general store into a restaurant and bar, they used some of the pews, stained glass, and the alter rail, in the bar. One guy told me when he was sitting in the pews he couldn't bring himself to order a double.
