The following is an edited transcript from The Michael Knowles Show. * * * Lego has just announced its largest Lego set ever. And in our culture, what would you expect that Lego set to be? The pride progress flag? What would you expect it to be — some big lib thing? Maybe even the “Kamala Sitting Under a Coconut Tree” set? Do you know what it is? It’s a Catholic church. The largest Lego set ever — some 12,060 bricks priced around $600 — is The Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona, Spain. This is good news for the culture. We’re not done yet. The hottest toy that’s coming out this year is of a Catholic church that has been under construction for — what — 140 years now? They started building this thing in March of 1882. It’s not even completed yet. It’s expected to be completed in 2034. This is such good news, in the abstract, that I’m willing to overlook the fact that this church is one of the ugliest buildings ever constructed. It is so bad. I had the privilege of visiting Spain once and got to see The Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona — and it’s pretty ugly. It looks like a melted anthill or some kind of weird distorted honeycomb. It’s supposed to be kind of like a neo-Gothic church, like all those great Gothic churches of Europe. But it’s weird because it’s modern. Construction started in the late 19th century, and then continued for a long time — these cathedrals can take centuries — and as other people took over, it somehow got even worse. Paco Freire/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Now, when you go inside, however, it’s quite stunning. It’s still a little too weird for me to say it’s beautiful, but it is stunning — the way the glass reflects the light. Really stunning. But it’s just ugly to look at. It’s not as ugly as sin, but it’s ugly. And yet — we’ll take the “W”. We’ll take the win. I am confident I will be pilloried from all sides for this — the people who say I’m a Philistine for not appreciating the modern basilica, the people who say I’m too religious not to be focused on a toy church — I don’t care. I’m going to take the win. But let’s not lie to ourselves. Let’s use our our taste, our real intelligence — not artificial intelligence — and say it’s not ugly. Listen, Lego could have done the Cathedral of Chartres. They could have done Notre-Dame de Paris. They could have — But no matter. I’ll take the win.