Posted on 05/22/2013 5:40:02 PM PDT by annalex
“...and followers”
Let’s hope not anymore.
Oh, how very sad. Right cause, wrong method.
May 21. The media coverage, if that is the right word, was that "a man" commits suicide in Notre Dame causing the public to be evacuated. Like that is the newsworthy aspect.
I agree. This is a pagan mind that does this, but of highest class.
Like the medieval knight Roland....
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Not exactly. Roland put himself in danger to save others, but he did not kill himself. The enemy did the killing.
Observe that nationalist conservatism is running out of options to fight though, especially in Europe.
I abhor suicide, like any sin. However, what heroic act of yours gives you the right to swear at people who died to serve their country?
Hopefully, it will. It sends a signal to the intellectual right that perhaps it is time to get from behind writing to thick magazines.
Thank you. I agree completely. It is a strange mix of despair and presumption.
But Roland died at the enemy's hand. The Church sees a difference between a military act certain to bring death to the hero, and a suicide. That was suicide. But then, again, his enemy is not exactly a fighting army, even though France, again, is suffering from a foreign invasion.
The times have changed since Roland the Furious, for the worse.
Yes.
Exactly. Tragic, in the classic pagan or existentialist sense.
My point is that he sounded the alarm that Satan is at the front door. Everyone else is pretending it is not going on.
Don’t blame him in that.
However, what heroic act of yours gives you the right to swear at people who died to serve their country?
You must have missed where he said he regrets -
“...that my death will cause to suffer first and foremost to my wife, my children and grandchildren...”
Offing himself is unlikely to end perversion, but it will traumatize his loved ones. That’s seems like a very “douche-baggy” thing to do.
He did what he thought was the best service he could offer for his country. We can disagree on whether that is a correct conclusion, but to see nothing in it other than causing pain to his family is cruel and not understanding the issue at all.
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