Posted on 04/15/2019 10:33:16 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
Notre Dame cathedral has caught fire, according to the Parisian fire service and eyewitnesses.
Footage posted online shows a large fire engulfing the upper part of the cathedral, with the flames licking around its two bell towers.
A major operation was under way, the fire department added, while a city hall spokesman said on Twitter that the area was being cleared.
Officials in Paris said the fire could be linked to renovation works being carried out at the cathedral.
It comes after France's Saint Sulpice church , used in the filming of Dan Brown’s ‘Da Vinci Code’ thriller, caught fire in March.
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Nice tagline.
The stone layer the old artisan builders put up in the vault actually helped save the building. They did it in case a lightning strike caused a roof fire. While some of the roof did collapse, much of it held as they thought it would. Very clever and thoughtful of the builders and planners in days of yore.
That’s largely what I think. That, or worse; some kind of vigilante or “expel” movement. I don’t think they can allow that conclusion to be reached, even if it’s true.
Thanks gleeaikin.
My ain’t right meter is pegging on this one, especially after all of the money poured in to help restore it. It appears to me that the salvation of so many “artifacts”, a “hero” priest saving the fake crown of thorns and all - it was planned. We will never know the truth on this one. But, the money that the catholic church has in the Vatican to rebuild this building which will never be used, nor the funds from visitation by tourists (where did ALL of those funds go?) just makes this all smell to high Heaven.
I agree, but I still do not think an arson conclusion will be reached, and I don’t think the calculus is even that hard. An arson conclusion possibly brings down the Macron gov’t. French billionaires have already pledged perhaps $1/2 bn in rebuild funds, the Vatican will not be spending a penny not made up in zillions of small collection plate donations around the world. An arson conclusion probably sets off several hundred million in Muslim street riots. The rebuild process and publicity surrounding same will probably generate increased tourism (whereas an arson finding might well discourage same) There’s no upside whatsoever in an arson finding. Absolutely none, zero. Like it or not. Indeed, there’s considerable downside, with possible vigilante activity in France and whatever Muslim riots THAT would set off. The truth could not be more irrelevant; and it IS possible it was an accident. I don’t see any way in the entire universe the French gov’t arrives at an arson finding.
But elevating demonic graven images on a church building is simply not the way to remind people of that, unless it is a satanic church.
By chance are you against the Statue of Liberty as well? There are different ways of construing various passages originally written in Hebrew, and yours seems to be tending towards the iconoclastic/Islamic version (the extreme Islamic version came first, and then dribbled into Judaism and Christianity).
The universe is given to us to remind us of various things, some good, some not so good, because we need to be reminded of them.
Otherwise, God would have created Berkley and have been done with it. (The wacko 18th century Anglican Bishop-Philosopher, not to be confused with the California city named in his honour, or the school located there.)
No pagan graven image is to be set up in the context of worship including a place of worship, much less a demonic image, as such gives honor and invites worship. Such are found in pagan temples but are nowhere to be found in churches calling themselves Christian. It is hard enough to even justify any graven image made under the prerogative of man (versus commanded by God), let alone grotesque demonic creatures. And even when expressly commanded by God then you see the proclivity of man:
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. (2 Kings 18:4)
The universe is given to us to remind us of various things, some good, some not so good, because we need to be reminded of them.
And why stop there? A church building is not to be a museum of horrors or demonic creatures. Give it up.
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