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Related: About this forumNotre Dame Cathedral in Paris is on Fire!
It's burning bad, right under the steeple, with the entire roof ablaze. MSNBC is in live coverage!
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LakeArenal
(29,935 posts)MineralMan
(148,457 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,604 posts)And that if/when the arsonist(s) are arrested, s/he (or they) will be found to be affiliated with Steve Bannon's white (supremacy) nationalist movement.
LakeArenal
(29,935 posts)Mariana
(15,317 posts)are able to examine the scene just yet.
OregonBlue
(8,038 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,604 posts)Steve Bannon, the wonder who advocates the "dismantling of the administrative state", is now challenging the Catholic Church's moral and institutional authority. I would speculate that setting the cathedral on fire dovetails nicely with Bannon's wet dreams.
safeinOhio
(34,823 posts)going on at the time.
The Genealogist
(4,738 posts)One of the greatest cities in the world's history has lost an iconic symbol. Shocking, and I am sad for the people who live there.
NeoGreen
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It was/is a beautiful work of art of which I had the good fortune to visit in 1983.
Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)That building has been a monument to the genius of some and the labor of many, and we are poorer for every bit of damage it suffers.
edhopper
(35,373 posts)it is a symbol of a great city. It is a beacon of the ingenuity and achievement of Mankind.
It is a sad day.