Posted on 04/16/2019 9:33:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
The news that the Notre Dame Cathedral was on fire knocked the breath out of me. I was amazed at my emotional reaction to the destruction of a building I’ve never visited, a building created by the corrupt medieval Roman Catholic church, a building so old that it should be irrelevant -- but it isn’t. We’re all heartbroken. Why?
Notre Dame lives in us all. It is romance, danger, and transcendence. It is there as a backdrop for many of the movies, of the plays, of the novels we’ve loved. I can still access the corner of my brain where Quasimodo is laboring up the bell tower steps. It stands tall in the background of Les Miserables, of The Tale of Two Cities, of Le Crime de Sylvester Bonnard –- the first book I read in French.
That takes me back to my high school days and my eccentric, Francophile French teacher whose main curriculum was showing us 3-D color slides of Paris. She’d make us turn in our seats so that we were oriented in the proper direction as we gazed at the shots of the Eiffel Tower, the Bastille, and of course and most often Notre Dame. It sits there as the literal crossroads of France. All distances are measured from a ground-zero plaque on the pavement in front of the cathedral. That place is literally the center of all that is French.
It stands as a monument to Christianity and its foundational role in the stabilization of medieval Europe. It embodies reverence for tradition, for art, for innovation, for beauty, for holiness. It houses nine bells in its almost-twin towers and the lightning rod on the spire -– now totally destroyed –- held relics from St. Denis and St. Genevieve
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you never know when something can you hold dear will be gone and therefore think about that every day
Another point is that inanimate objects , despite how sacred or valued they are, are still nothing compared to human beings that are alive today
It's a testament to the West and the people who made it so. i.e. whites(which I know is tantamount to saying the devil). And as it burn(s)ed so is the West...
Too many think it's just a Disney movie.
Rush has been talking about the Fox hosts who so brusquely cut off guests yesterday who drifted toward arson by you know who. I know Smith and Cavuto both did. Must be orders from HQ.
The medieval Catholic Church was no more corrupt than it is today. We’re all sinners and broken children of God.
Amen (in spite of my broken heart over the cathedral.)
so all the Islamists have to do is tell you to burn down a local church, or else they will kill some people, and you'll do it?
I had 2 uncles that fought in Europe during WWII. They never saw each other until the war ended and by serendipity they both found each other at mass in Notre Dame Cathedral.
One wonders if the irony is lost on the Europeans.
The craftsman are still here, but the culture demands it ready by next year. Buy it now, and delivery guaranteed for tomorrow!
by Shelley:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
!
It’s just so sad. And all the thousands of people who died, too.
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