by Giulio Meotti, GATESTONE INSTITUTE • July 25, 2020
“The desecration continues to grow in Europe. Recent acts on statues of the Virgin Mary in French churches show how much these gestures are the result of barbaric hatred. They call for reactions. Catholics can no longer remain silent”. — Cardinal Robert Sarah, January 10, 2020.
- “We must try everything, while it is still possible, to save our civilization. Our civilization is the Greek, Roman, Judeo-Christian heritage”. — Alain Finkielkraut, author, L’Opinon, December 17, 2013.
- If France keeps failing to protect its Christian identity, France as we know it will cease to exist; it will become a different place entirely.
If France keeps failing to protect its Christian identity, France as we know it will cease to exist. The recent fire at the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes on July 18 is believed to have been started deliberately. Only a year ago, a massive blaze nearly totally gutted the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. After that, the historic Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris caught fire, as well as the Basilica of Saint Denis. Pictured: Firefighters work to put out the flames at the Cathedral of Nantes on July 18, 2020. (Photo by Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP via Getty Images)<
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A leading curator of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Keith Christiansen, was criticized for posting on Instagram a painting of Alexandre Lenoir saving France’s monuments from the ravages of the French Revolution. Christiansen wrote:
“Alexandre Lenoir battling the revolutionary zealots bent on destroying the royal tombs in Saint Denis. How many great works of art have been lost to the desire to rid ourselves of a past of which we don’t approve. And how grateful we are to people like Lenoir who realized that their value — both artistic and historical — extended beyond a defining moment of social and political upheaval and change”.
Christiansen was criticizing the current removal and desecration of historic monuments. He could not have known that, a few weeks later, another French cathedral would be vandalized and an ancient organ, which had survived Lenoir’s revolutionary zealots, destroyed by the blaze.
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@ evildoctor:
Evildoctor, please tell me how you got such an awful name.
I cannot agree or disagree with your prognostication about US Christianity. The media, education, etc. turned against God long ago, so it’s difficult to deduce a correct opinion from what they say. The COVID-19 isolation, moreover, makes it difficult for me to even communicate with fellow Christians.
I do know that people in authority in so-called “Evangelical” churches in the US have been overtaken by politics, to the point that they are putting people out of the church who do not agree with them. I am a casualty of this movement. Many of our close relatives and friends, moreover, who we have for years received as fellow believers, have begun showing their true colors — anarchist, progressive, anti-Christian colors.
TDS really IS a “derangenent syndrome”, in the fullest medical extent. It hurts me, to see it so quickly toppling the shallow religion of people I used to trust.
@ Yitzi:
Should Biden and his army of radical leftists win the White House in November I suggest that the US will leap ahead of Europe on the road to post Christianity, post Judaism, post anything that made the US a great country on what will turn out to be the Highway to Hell.
@ stevenl:
The United States is only a half-step behind Europe on the road to post Christianity
Europe is more and more Christian by NAME only!
At the time of “GPS technology” Europe reveals no moral compass! No purpose! No ideal! Just materialism!