Posted on 04/18/2019 6:41:59 AM PDT by C19fan
Declarations of hope that Notre Dame can be resurrected have been much in evidence this Holy Week. Such is the lesson of Easter: that life can come from death. Unlike the Eiffel Tower, that other great emblem of Paris, Notre Dame provides the French with evidence that their modern and secular republic has its foundations deeply rooted in the Middle Ages. Notre Dame has always been more than just an assemblage of stone and stained glass. It is a monument as well to a specifically Christian past.
Last summer, one of the world’s best-known scientists, a man as celebrated for his polemics against religion as for his writings on evolutionary biology, sat in another cathedral, Winchester, listening to the bells peal. ‘So much nicer than the aggressive-sounding “Allahu Akhbar”,’ Richard Dawkins tweeted. ‘Or is that just my cultural upbringing?’ A preference for church bells over the sound of Muslims praising God does not just emerge by magic. Dawkins — agnostic, secularist and humanist that he is — absolutely has the instincts of someone brought up in a Christian civilisation.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...
The Judeo-Christian ethic of Western Civilization will be its downfall.
The invasions are underway in Europe and North America. They are succeeding because the J-C ethic will not entertain a force-of-arms defense. Along with the fall of Western Civilization will come the extermination of the caucasion race.
It's because for the most part the West has abandoned the Judeo-Christian ethic, that will be the cause of the West's downfall.
Maybe they should leave Notre Dame a ruin as a painful reminder for a society that has turned its’ back on Christ. A kind of call to repentance. If not, make it a museum of what once was. If it’s rebuilt, it will likely go from a building erected to the glory of God to a building erected to the glory of man. (like the tower of Babel)
Stop cherry picking and read the whole post
bkmk
Thanks for the post. I may have to read some of Mr. Holland’s books.
It was the Pope and his church that saved Europe with several crusades against the Muslim hoards. It will be the church that rises again to destroy the demonic ambitions of Islam in Europe.
That was then. This is now.
Would love to see your expectations come to pass, but all recent evidence and proclamations are to the contrary.
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