Posted on 12/10/2021 7:07:09 AM PST by Heartlander
Some people accused Muslims of starting the fire. This article makes it look like it was an inside job.
Maybe they can get “Little P” Bush to consult. After all, he is responsible for the plan for “re-imaginging” the Alamo.
Perhaps the walls can be adorned with original Bidens.
“What people who are not “from a Christian culture” need is Christianity. They do not need gimmicks. They do not need mood lighting, or modern-art installations, or “catechumenical paths,” or aggiornamento. They do not need half-baked, pre-chewed, watered-down versions of the Gospel that ape the therapeutic jargon of modern culture. They do not need abstract murals that obscure the clear and unbearable call to “pick up your cross.” They do not need an “emotional space” in lieu of a confessional, a “discovery trail” in lieu of an altar, or soft, soapy music to drown out the piercing silence of God.”
Many of these observations also apply to other churches.
Why not just replace it as it was?
Maybe they will throw out that old Christian stuff like altars and crucifixes and put up art by Hunter Biden and Maplethorpe. You know, make it representative of our proud modern culture.
Especially the part of them we can't see.
Not according to code?................
Code shmode ala mode.
I dont think the old growth forests are around to produce such a structure.
You know how bureaucrats are. If the code calls for GFI outlets every 5 meters minimum of one meter off the ground they had better be there!.................
“Destroying Notre Dame”
Usually this is the job of the SEC.
Notre-Dame is not a religious building anymore. Under French law, all these churches are owned by the government. That’s the only reason that nitwit Macron would have any say in its restoration in the first place.
The author should stop this silly nonsense about “a structure built with the pennies of paupers and sustained by the religious conviction of an entire civilization.” There is no longer any religious conviction in France that would be reflected in a magnificent cathedral. The usurpation of the church’s power by the secular government is all the evidence you need of that. Expecting the radically secular government of France to properly restore the legacy of Notre-Dame is like asking radical Muslims to help build a synagogue.
Speaking of GFI outlets . . . I had a room added to my house and it included several outside outlets. The electricians placed huge, unspeakably ugly clear plastic boxes on each outlet. I asked if they couldn’t use the same sleek, flat covers that were used on the existing outside outlets. Heavens no! Wouldn’t be to code! But it was clear they’d heard this same complaint many times before.
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Is that a for real?
Think of the riches that were poured into building so many grand cathedrals which were/are of no essence whatsoever in promoting human souls to fellowship with their Creator bot now and in the life after physical death in this world.
What has happened to the Notre Dame Cathedral is fit for it, one which is seen in the remnants of those not quite yet crumbled to dust across the globe.
Yet the true faith remains yet wholly viable and perfect, in spiritual temples of eternally saved souls, given life and continuously existing in the spiritual realm, and sustained by the Person, The Holy Spirit of God Himself forever. No fire can ever harm those spiritual temples, no not ever.
So go build something and stop griping.
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