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Notre Dame Cathedral ON FIRE!

church mouse guy

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/AP

A criminal terrorist investigation has been opened in Paris following the discovery of a car parked near Notre Dame Cathedral with seven gas canisters and pages written in Arabic inside.
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The French government should return all RCC property to the RCC at once. Church descrecations are frequent and in every part of France.
 

Earth Wind and Fire

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Yes I am a "cradle" Catholic (or was).

My memories from my childhood days were those of a happy boyhood where Sundays were spent first at mass then over to my grandparents who lived in the Italian neighborhood of the North End of Boston where we spent most of the day eating and being a family. I had not an inkling that there was any other God than the The Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

I hope you can forgive me of that.
You are now being sentimental.
 

Jerome

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it has been there in Paris 856 years...it survived WWII and the Nazi invasion.
It suffered more at the hands of the Revolutionaries (before they lost their heads, so to speak)
It survived too, assaults by Huguenot mobs:

Rich Lowry | Notre Dame Cathedral | National Review

"It survived the rampages of iconoclastic Huguenots in the 16th century, the depredations of radicals during the French Revolution in the 18th century...and incidental damage during two world wars in the 20th century. "
 
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Jerome

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Ugh!

Déjà vu?:

The Reformation in National Context: Iconoclasts in France

"Iconoclasm was also a fundamental feature of the French Calvinist Reformation. Going far beyond the traditional, often anonymous and generally limited, gestures, of defiance of the holy power of images, Calvinist iconoclasm was far more aggressively desacralizing. Crucifixes were daubed with excrement and shrines desecrated."
 
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church mouse guy

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Whoever first said this, it sounds like a Yogi Berra comment. Referring to a North Jersey restaurant, he once said, "Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded."

Thank you!

Funny! I hadn't thought of that one for a long time. That does sound like the Texas Roadhouse here where I live.

Trump said that about Paris in a campaign speech. I think that it is true because I knew a person who stopped going to Paris. Paris has 600,000 Muslims as well as a large number of communists. Canadian Lauren Southern did a video of the streets of Paris, which also is like parts of London:

 

HankD

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St Paul - London

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Walter

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When I was a teenager, Catholic churches were open during the day and some never locked their doors so that people could come to pray. When I was a student at California Baptist College, I would visit an Episcopal church that was open during the day for a quiet time with the Lord. Those opportunities are uncommon or rare, though, and may disappear altogether now.
 

David Kent

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Rich Americans no longer go there. We like nice things. Europe is used to decay. They don't mind men urinating all over in public. London is like Chicago in crime rate.

Europeans like you who hate Trump probably hate everyday Americans also. Therefore there is no reason for Americans to go to London either.
I don't hate Trump, and I certainly don't hate Anericans. When we go to France, my wife and I always attend a church with an American pastor.

If you were to go to Buckingham Palace, most of the tourists you meet will be Americans.
 

church mouse guy

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I don't hate Trump, and I certainly don't hate Anericans. When we go to France, my wife and I always attend a church with an American pastor.

If you were to go to Buckingham Palace, most of the tourists you meet will be Americans.

Well, your May is something else. Trump has stood up for the decayed industrial sector and the working class of everyday Joes and that has angered the filthy rich, who statistically are Democrats these days.
 

David Kent

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Well, your May is something else. Trump has stood up for the decayed industrial sector and the working class of everyday Joes and that has angered the filthy rich, who statistically are Democrats these days.

May is the wrong person in the wrong Job.

But I think from your posts that you have a giant inferiority complex,
 

Earth Wind and Fire

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Don't worry, little buddy, New Jersey will vote Democrat in 2020 even if the Dems nominate Joe "Gee, your hair smells terrific" Biden.
Oh you mean it won’t be Fat Donnie even though the golf course he owns here provides jobs?!? Like it or not I, the employees are mostly illegals. No votes for el porky.
 

Earth Wind and Fire

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When I was a teenager, Catholic churches were open during the day and some never locked their doors so that people could come to pray. When I was a student at California Baptist College, I would visit an Episcopal church that was open during the day for a quiet time with the Lord. Those opportunities are uncommon or rare, though, and may disappear altogether now.
Simple to address with security cameras... evidenced by Ring.
 
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