I fully agree with you—1600 might have been a little too on the long side, but I’d put the burning down the house moment in terms of the culture from 1789-1791. 1400 or 1500 years might have been a better choice of time.
Notre Dame is the fruit of the culture at its maturity, and it has stood as a witness as the culture decayed.
I hate to see it go, but in some ways it is poetically fitting.
We can build neither the buildings nor the culture that our forebears did. Sometimes it is good to be reminded of this.
This is a tragedy because the Cathedral simply cannot be rebuilt in it’s former glory. The history is destroyed.
Modern buildings are soulless monstrosities. The original Notre Dame is irreplaceable. This isn’t just some little storefront church that could be easily replaced.
Shepherd Smith and Neil Cavuto should be suspended or fired for their outrageous behavior today when a guest actually had the nerve to suggest arson.
Faux News is just as bad as CNN.