[C19fan]

Might as well tear the whole thing down and replace it with a Temple of Reason or in this case Diversity. Stalin had the guts to destroy the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour to make way for his Palace of the Soviets.

[McGavin999]

Yes and the people of Russia rebuilt it.

[PGR88]

The Church still stands. It merely needs a new roof and steeple. Any talk about a new design is just nonsense.

[P-Marlowe]

No one but committed Catholics should be involved in any aspect of rebuilding this Cathedral. It was built by and for Catholics. It is theirs. If they intend to turn it into a secular shrine, then it should never be rebuilt. Just bulldoze it.

FWIW I am not Catholic.

[mountainlion]

Lets tear down the government and make it secular. Not really but why should they steal church property and historical facility to suit their mood today?

[dfwgator]

And so it begins!

[RayChuang88]

But yet, that very church Stalin ordered destroyed was rebuilt in only a few years. Mind you, that Russian church’s design was not that hard to rebuild.

[central_va]

Here is a design that may work...

[bgill]

Just wait until they make the new Rose Window a crescent and place prayer rugs inside.

The local lib Austin, TX news station has the Notre Dame fire listed under “Entertainment” along with Carly Simon and Bill Cosby. https://www.kxan.com/entertainment-news

[Right Wing Assault]

Ah, yes.

"Welcome to Notre Dame Museum of All Religions, including Pseudo-Religions, Religions of One Person or Animal, Cults, Drug-based Religions, all forms of Atheism, Gender-base Religions, Religions of Love and/or Hate, and anything we have overlooked."

[I want the USA back]

In the spirit of multiculturalism, why not rebuild Notre Dame as a cathedral, a mosque, a synagogue, and a temple of atheism? Each of the “faiths” could share the building on a rotating basis.

Instead of the spire topped by a cross, the spire could alternately display a crescent, a star of David, a cross, and a picture of Richard Dawkins. Then everybody would be equally unhappy, and the great god of multiculturalism would be properly worshipped.

[moovova]

I KNEW IT!

It’s gonna be a mosque.

[mass55th]

The Nazis destroyed the medieval Coventry Cathedral in 1940. The spire, and the outer walls are all that exist. They built the new one right next to it, and it’s very modern, not anything I admire. I visited the site on a bus tour I took in 2006.

[NormsRevenge]

When Civilizations Collide

From burnt down church spires to newly risen call to prayer towers..

EUrabia has set the stage for the coming New Dark Ages.

[jerod]

[PUGACHEV]

I just knew this was coming. It is so depressingly predictable.