Notre Dame on fire

konfab said:
The grandeur of the building has been lost IMO.

A lot individual effort went into the plethora of sculptures that adorned that building. That has been unequivocally lost as a 3D printed replica isn't the same as a the work of a stone mason pouring is soul into his work.
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Possibly to some degree, but to most people visiting, the building will be just as grand and impressive.
 
Some points:

1. This is arson.

2. They wont say so, because its too much for the French people to bear.

3. We know who commited the arson.
 
Ok, we can agree to disagree...

Building a replica in some random place, does not make it impressive in the same sense as the original location.
 
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I wonder what he thinks about the destruction of Timbuktu, an event that concerned both Africans and the Muslim world?

"They have raped Timbuktu today. It is a crime," said a source close to a local imam in Timbuktu, known as the "City of 333 Saints".
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“Our cultural heritage is not a luxury good – we must protect it from desecration and ravages,” Fatou Bensouda [chief prosecutor for the ICC and a Gambian nationalty] told the court. “This must be stopped in its tracks. History will not be generous to our failure to care.”
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STS said:
You are creating a strawman, both the SA tweeter and the racist remain idiots in my eyes and i agree with neither groups. I can disagree with multiple people. I only commented on the racist posts because I stumbled upon a forum.

I am being civil, I suggest you do the same
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You have to admit that you walked right into that one. :ROFL:

Me poking fun at how it all unfolded is not being civil? You also built your own strawman in your first post.
 
Notre Dame fire follows months of arson, vandalism & desecration of French Catholic churches

France has been hit with a string of fires at Catholic churches, some of which occurred alongside desecration of sacred objects and acts of vandalism. While the fire at Notre Dame appears to be an accident connected to renovations of the church, the image of the famous spire engulfed in flames is a hard hit on the historically deeply Catholic France, as well as Catholics all over who have seen their religion reeling from devastating scandals, cover-ups and attacks.


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February saw a series of such attacks across France. In one incident, a cross of human excrement was smeared on the wall of the Notre Dame des Enfants in Nimes, the vandals also looting the church and spreading consecrated wafers in the garbage.

The same month, the altar at Saint-Alain Cathedral in Lavaur was set on fire, while statues and crosses were smashed throughout the premises. Two teenagers were later arrested in relation to the incident.
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Attacks on Churches across France are not unusual.
 
ToxicBunny said:
What makes you think the French would do anything other than restore that landmark to its former glory?
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The French will rebuild it because they are fiercely proud of their history and quite stubborn.
 
Emjay said:
You have to admit that you walked right into that one. :ROFL:

Me poking fun at how it all unfolded is not being civil? You also built your own strawman in your first post.
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Strange position you hold, based on your self assessment that you are a centrist.

You discount right wing conspiracy theories on the fire by poisoning the well, without addressing the actual content.

But freely laugh (rightly so in that aspect) at the counter narrative that is just as despicable and deplorable?

I would have thought a centrist would have bashed both sides of the crazy theories and comments and hot takes on this event?
 
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