Posted on 04/18/2019 7:11:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It's hard to tell sometimes if liberals are saying something because they really mean it or whether they're just trolling the right, trying to get a rise out.
I say this because it's hard to imagine anyone being serious about rebuilding Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and not wanting to recreate its sacred past.
But the discussion is already underway to rebuild the structure along more secular, "modern" lines.
Over the course of the past few centuries, the cathedral has played a role in major historical events, from the coronation of kings to the crowning of Napoleon to the requiem mass of President Charles de Gaulle. And Notre Dame has served as a symbol of not just French historical identity, but Catholicism in general. "It has a double meaning," says Jean-Robert Armogathe, a French Catholic priest and historian who served as the chaplain at Notre Dame from 1980 to 1985. "It has been the center of Catholic life and of France for 800 years." As Armogathe points out, it is also quite literally the center of Paris: a gold star outside the cathedral marks Point Zero, the supposed center of the city.
But for some people in France, Notre Dame has also served as a deep-seated symbol of resentment, a monument to a deeply flawed institution and an idealized Christian European France that arguably never existed in the first place. "The building was so overburdened with meaning that its burning feels like an act of liberation," says Patricio del Real, an architecture historian at Harvard University. If nothing else, the cathedral has been viewed by some as a stodgy reminder of "the old city — the embodiment of the Paris of stone and faith —
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I have had it with this neoliberal garbage.
Build it back the way it was. No...wait...not the way it was.
Scrap that Cranmerian dinner table, have Mass at the high altar, tell the Republic to go get stuffed, and bring back the monarchy. Altar and throne, and if they have a problem with it, they can go cry to the goddess Reason.
That’s where I’m at.
If the liberals had their way they’d turn the nave into a whore house, with an abortion clinic and bathhouse in the transepts.
I would think the Catholic church should have something to say about that.
It would really be a shame if the yellow vests smashed the windows on all of the Moslem-owned businesses in Paris this weekend. Sure would hate to see that. In Minecraft, of course.
If not rebuilt as an iconic Christian shrine of sorts, the rebuild would be a fraud. Why go to all the trouble and sink vast sums of money into such an intellectually vacant endeavor. It was Christ, Christianity, the beliefs, commitments and a way of life that motivated its original construction. Once again, satanic forces want the world to exchange the truth for a lie,
Right.
It really should be rebuilt as a nice little wine bistro.
The Left would have no objection if it was torn down and replaced with a mosque. They’d be happy.
The Pope has been curiously undistressed about this.
Methinks if this had been a mosque fire, we would be hearing quite a lot more from His Holiness.
You’d think so, but the church hierarchy is infested with liberal modernists right now. They will go right along with it.
Bishops have wrecked *their own* cathedrals with no help from the government. What Mahoney did in Los Angeles was an abomination.
The only hope is if the French trad orders (SSPX, FSSP) team up with enough artists and medievalists to put a stop to any wreckovation.
In lieu of the number of Muslims there are in France, perhaps they will propose that a Mosque would be built in its place. The Saudis would be glad to pay for it and a mosque being built over the ruins of a Church is standard operating procedure. //Sarc//
Natch!
In contrast, these same people have absolutely no objection to the “Muslim meaning” of the Mosques and Madrassas that are popping up like toadstools all over France and the rest of Europe.
F*** them.
Quelle surprise.
This is the dumbest suggestion I’ve ever read.
It’s a church, not a fricking airport terminal.
It’s none of my business as a Jewish guy, but I am outraged at this suggestion.
Resist this crap.
Take away the religious significance and you have a pile of stones. I doubt the original builders had that intent and instead built to honor God.
and tell me, who did not see this coming
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