[dfwgator]

This is stunning to watch. The SPIRE! It is as though we’re watching Western civilization burn.

Churches have burned before, and been rebuilt.

My prayer is the French people will be inspired to rebuild Notre Dame better than it was before. Perhaps it's God's Way of waking them up.

[miss marmelstein]

Better than before????????

Are you kidding? This is one of the greatest examples of Gothic architecture built by peasant artisans. No one has these skills today. It’s lost.

[nutmeg]

My prayer is the French people will be inspired to rebuild Notre Dame better than it was before. Perhaps it's God's Way of waking them up.

My prayers to the French people as well, however Notre Dame Cathedral - even if any of it survives somehow - will never be the same. And any renovation will NEVER be 'better' than it was before. Never.