tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post3605868667606129817..comments2024-03-29T09:09:46.823+02:00Comments on A Political Refugee From The Global Village : The fire in Notre Dame is a symbol, but of what?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-3679812925820839362019-04-26T18:35:12.385+03:002019-04-26T18:35:12.385+03:00The Archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit, is renown...The Archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit, is renowned for his calm demeanor and easy-going manner. That made it all the more significant when, during a recent radio interview following President Emmanuel Macron’s address to the nation about the burning of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Aupetit expressed his astonishment at Macron’s failure to mention Catholics as among those affected by the drama surrounding what is, after all, a functioning and active Catholic cathedral. “Le mot catholique n’est pas un gros mot,” he insisted. (“The word ‘Catholic’ is not a swear word.”)<br /><br />https://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine/rebuilding-notre-dame-will-pit-church-against-state-again/Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-57857825865147614632019-04-24T18:10:51.778+03:002019-04-24T18:10:51.778+03:00'Your prayers are completely useless'
You...'Your prayers are completely useless'<br /><br />You're right about that... I was praying God to put some sense into your head... Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-41697882016376195352019-04-24T18:02:51.392+03:002019-04-24T18:02:51.392+03:00'Why Did Nonbelievers Grieve for Notre-Dame?&#...'Why Did Nonbelievers Grieve for Notre-Dame?'<br /><br />"The decline of religion does not seem to have grounded people in something more true.<br />That is partly why the fire at Notre-Dame shook so many to the core. Objects and traditions bound up with religious belief lend a feeling of sense and stability. For believers they are a reinforcement. For nonbelievers they are a substitute. Notre-Dame is perhaps the greatest such object in Europe. It is a consoling relic, as surely as the crown of thorns that Father Fournier rescued, and this is so for believers and nonbelievers alike."<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/opinion/sunday/notre-dame.htmlTomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-58927341538333985042019-04-24T18:01:10.277+03:002019-04-24T18:01:10.277+03:00'Not sure where there is the free will'
I...'Not sure where there is the free will'<br /><br />In accepting, or not, God offer of salvation...Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-42269502530928012832019-04-22T10:01:10.771+03:002019-04-22T10:01:10.771+03:00Honestly what a dumb question. For
French and for ...Honestly what a dumb question. For<br />French and for Europeans more widely Notre Dame was the proud achievement of their ancestor engineers. Had it been an 800 year old castle instead of a cathedral would you be asking why non-believers were sorry to see it burned down? The fact that what Notre Dame was built to honour is false is beside the point. If the remains of the Temple of Athena in Athens were blown up would you have to be a believer in Athena to be sad about it? Rupert Meadowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15886194902488499205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-65624675196328585482019-04-22T09:39:54.719+03:002019-04-22T09:39:54.719+03:00Not sure where there is the free will in an electr...Not sure where there is the free will in an electrical short circuit. <br /><br />And if it was arson God could have put out the fire without affecting the free will of the arsonists whose would still have wanted to burn down the building just would not have succeeded. A fire itself has no free will. <br /><br />Unless of course you are arguing that God does not intervene in the natural world at all. In which case why do you pray for people or for anything? Your prayers are completely useless. You can’t have it both ways. Rupert Meadowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15886194902488499205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-11177786000658921242019-04-21T07:07:19.366+03:002019-04-21T07:07:19.366+03:00Opinion
Why Did Nonbelievers Grieve for Notre-Dame...Opinion<br />Why Did Nonbelievers Grieve for Notre-Dame?<br />Religion goes on, whether or not people honor its traditions.<br />By Christopher Caldwell<br />https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/opinion/sunday/notre-dame.htmlTomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-17759220042335264092019-04-21T06:25:39.230+03:002019-04-21T06:25:39.230+03:00'the curse he made us with' is aka 'fr...'the curse he made us with' is aka 'free will'<br /><br />...the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion.<br /><br />says gugalTomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-22184074389539248302019-04-20T18:25:44.519+03:002019-04-20T18:25:44.519+03:00Unconsidered trifle #1:
If there is one thing tha...Unconsidered trifle #1:<br /><br />If there is one thing that orthodox Christians and Jews have agreed upon for two thousand years, it is that Judeo-Christian is a contradiction in terms.<br /><br />JMSmith<br />https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2019/04/19/you-scratch-my-back-ill-stab-yours/<br /><br />Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-67753077417798521172019-04-20T12:13:39.377+03:002019-04-20T12:13:39.377+03:00“or we can accept the free offer being celebrated ...“or we can accept the free offer being celebrated once more this Easter of the prescription for salvation from the curse and consequences of sin.”<br /><br />Yes God’s freely offering salvation from the curse he made us with in the first place - if only we worship him and thank him for sacrificing himself to himself. <br /><br />A bit like the mafia requesting protection money to stop “criminals” bricking in their windows. Nice offer. Think I’ll pass. Rupert Meadowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15886194902488499205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-85085363546267225072019-04-19T19:36:42.869+03:002019-04-19T19:36:42.869+03:00The only thing remarkable about a footy player pre...The only thing remarkable about a footy player preaching the Gospel is that this is considered an unforgivable offence. Sharing sex videos or being arrested for drunken brawling and indecent exposure warrant slaps and suspensions; preaching against sin is deemed to deserve immediate and absolute banishment.<br /><br />Mark the hypocrisy with which the world, on one hand, condemns the Bible-thumping preaching of the Gospel by a footy player, and with the other hand mourns the Cathedral of Notre Dame in literal flames. The contrast is remarkable. The world has piously intoned, ‘We reject God’s concerns about us as hateful bigotry; but mourn the temporary flames burning a sanctuary which preached exactly those Scriptures.”<br /><br />The images of the burning cathedral shadow the choices laid before us every Good Friday and every time Folau opens his Instagram account. We can choose to be outraged that there is an objective standard in Scripture (of which we all fall short); or we can accept the free offer being celebrated once more this Easter of the prescription for salvation from the curse and consequences of sin. Folau said what he believes and said it well enough: we need only turn away from our sin and come to Jesus while His precious gift of time permits.<br /><br />https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/opinion-post/free-will-free-speech-and-israel-folau/<br />Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-51132515409434310172019-04-18T16:48:06.543+03:002019-04-18T16:48:06.543+03:00No. Why?No. Why?Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-14815500807540730082019-04-18T12:49:17.122+03:002019-04-18T12:49:17.122+03:00This is very interesting. He thinks arson is possi...This is very interesting. He thinks arson is possible. I have no idea but it is very strange, very telling and very dismaying that people who merely ask if it was arson are being demonised in left-of-centre newspapers like the Independent.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-46833552382921857392019-04-18T12:01:58.447+03:002019-04-18T12:01:58.447+03:00Interview with former architect of ND, very intere...Interview with former architect of ND, very interesting:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5QO5dP_NSk<br /><br />[nb other link I sent doesn't work anymore, delete post]hjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17296327325621238696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-69308589076693817842019-04-18T10:08:21.269+03:002019-04-18T10:08:21.269+03:00This comment has been removed by the author.hjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17296327325621238696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-91856901088022487742019-04-18T08:52:30.970+03:002019-04-18T08:52:30.970+03:00Have you read Aubrey's Brief Lives and Burton&...Have you read Aubrey's Brief Lives and Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy?Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-24792162090035685592019-04-18T08:51:40.408+03:002019-04-18T08:51:40.408+03:00Thank you for very funny quotation. You are a good...Thank you for very funny quotation. You are a good collector of unconsidered trifles, like me.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-4705374945442096602019-04-18T08:51:05.954+03:002019-04-18T08:51:05.954+03:00I do not think M Macron will win re-election and h...I do not think M Macron will win re-election and hope he does not.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-12463443847343643262019-04-18T08:50:15.458+03:002019-04-18T08:50:15.458+03:00It may be politically incorrect to say so but Mond...It may be politically incorrect to say so but Monday’s fire, to many of us, felt like a metaphor for the recent conflagration of those precious moral concepts. French president Emmanuel Macron, who rushed to the scene, had this to say: “Notre Dame is our history, our literature, part of our psyche, the place of all our great events, our epidemics, our wars, our liberations, the epicentre of our lives.”<br /><br />Macron announced a national project to rebuild the cathedral because, “it is our profound destiny”. All this was noble and fair. But measure it against the record of the liberal political class he embodies. The Macrons and Merkels of this world — like the Blairs and Camerons and Cleggs and so many other equivocating cultural cowards — have long preached secularisation. They have diluted Christian values in our laws and public life."<br /><br />Quentin Letts, a good Catholic and Tory, writing in the Sun.<br /><br />https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8878900/let-notre-dame-relight-pride-in-christian-values/Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-26942088636211719452019-04-17T19:22:14.340+03:002019-04-17T19:22:14.340+03:00“It seems to me that five years to reconstruct a c...“It seems to me that five years to reconstruct a cathedral is a little bit short; five years to have to put up with Emmanuel Macron’s speeches is a bit long.”<br /><br />Manuel BompardTomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.com