Posted on 04/22/2019 2:39:13 PM PDT by robowombat
Christian Europe has been dead a very long time. When godless Bolsheviks successfully took over Russia. When the Fascisti took over Italy and locked the Church behind the walls of the Vatican. When the perversions of Weimar’s culture devolved into a pagan ritual of National Socialism and took the once Christian and scholarly German People into an abyss of hatred of all things Western.
If you were to ask me, I would say Gavril Princip ended Christian Europe.
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“What would have prevented terrorists from infiltrating the Notre Dame construction crew for the purpose of sabotage by fire”
What would have prevented terrorists from infiltrating the French Military, and launching their nukes?
While this piece is about Notre Dame what is of concern is the fragmented reports about the Sri Lanka bombings. The targets if religious, which were only 3 reported thus far, their affiliation and identity has been left unidentified and only the location (town) named. The hotels named but the function they were holding which was the target of the bombing activity goes unmentioned. Hope some FR picks up on this we really shout have a full report on both Notre Dame and Sri Lanka
Jesus and His second coming can not come quick enough.
That may be the beginning of the anti-Islam Resistance, but it will require an army from the outside to complete the task. The logical source would be from the east, an allied force combining Russia and the former Iron Curtain countries, a kind of battle of Vienna in reverse, with the Christians pushing from the east and the Muslims defending from the west--perhaps after a Urban II-like call from the successor of the present pope. Unlike us, whoever is the successor to Putin in Russia will not be reticent about using atomic weapons to flatten Muslim strongholds in Europe, since he will see it as the first step in establishing Russian hegemony. The two groups who have wanted Europe for the last 1000 years have been the Muslims and the Orthodox, and it wouldn't be illogical that the battle would be between the two.
That's OK, they are only Easter worshippers. (/sarc)
The NYSlimes is calling Christians far right now.
Wait til they do the Vatican with a couple hundred pounds of gelignite. On Easter.
Or fire and brimstone ala Sodom and Gomorah
They knew early on what happened. The fire alarms were triggered quickly. It could even be a matter where someone went directly to the source but was unable to put out the blaze. Fires in remodel jobs are very plausible if not probable in this case.
The people singing hymns while the Cathedral burned remind me of Psalm 137:
“By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.”
In both cases they were singing about something that used to be, but is no longer.
Well worth the read. “an additional sign of an “irreversible decadence”” my take as well and not just France.
I can't see far enough ahead to envision what is coming, but you are correct in that eventually all these rag tag anti-Islamic fighters will have to coalesce into a group and find counties who will support them.
I don't have a good enough grasp on what is going on in Russia to know how that country will play out.
Oh I think it’s a safe bet that Tamil separatists aren’t responsible for the Sri Lankan bombings. They were crushed ten years ago.
Pray that the truth comes out.
I'm not going to take one data point and say that it disputes the above, but my family and I visited Paris last year, and attended Mass at Sacre Couer, located in the Montmartre neighborhood. The Mass was very well attended, even as tourists walked around the perimeter of the church, observing us like some kind of bugs under a microscope.
We visited Notre Dame, St. Chappelle, and a number of other churches--all were heavily visited by tourists while we were there. There certainly seems to be an interest in French churches, at least in the more notable churches around Paris. In other towns, I could not say.
No, the Catholic Faith is very much alive and well in France. The French have the most beautiful hymns to Our Lady. France is indeed the Eldest Daughter of the Church.
However, the life of the Church is found in the Catholics who attend and promote the latin mass, which predated Notre Dame Cathedral by over a thousand years, and for which the cathedral was constructed.
If you look closely at the before and after pictures of the main nave, it was the Novus Ordo “Cramner Table” altar which was crushed by the collapse of the roof and spire while the traditional altar and cross and Pieta at the end of the nave survived without a scratch.
I find it amazing that the bronze rooster, loaded with relics of St Genevieve patron saint of Paris, St. Denis (founder of Paris?), and one of the thorns from the Crown of Thorns, which sat atop the spire survived its roasting and subsequent fall into the heart of the church. It will live to watch over the city of Paris again.
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