I skimmed Dreher’s blog long enough to several posts on the fire, including one that took the opportunity to flog his fricking Benedict Option book again. Stay classy, Rod. Oh...and these goobers do realize that ND was falling apart even before the fire not because of the libs destroying Western civ but because the church wouldn’t pony up for its maintenance, right? Sigh...
"When the church went ablaze, the inchoate cry they sent up was not a cry for vengeance or even of sorrow at the damage to a cultural monument — it was the baffled cry of a child who can’t understand why no one picks him up and hugs him anymore when he throws a tantrum."
(And sometimes they create their own little blazes in response, and/or chant "____ will not replace us!" They may even get in a car and try to run over people.)
<The fire that destroyed Paris’s iconic cathedral made manifest what we in the West have been doing to ourselves for over 200 years>
Yes! Finally, everything has been made clear!
Until this event, even the handful of visionaries who hadn't been lulled into a false sense of security (Rod Dreher foremost among them, of course) - even this precious few had been able to discern only faint hints and cryptic suggestions from the atrocities of the Peninsular war, the Amritsar massacre, the Holocaust, the Nakba, Hiroshima, Vietnam, Iraq, the slave trade, the KKK, apartheid, the Catholic priests' sex-abuse scandals, Hitler's pope, Putin's Russian-Orthodox Church...
This was characteristically splendid, Roy. I don't know which is worse: the Steve Bannons and Richard Spencers who yearn for the next Reichstag fire or PNAC-style "catastrophic and catalyzing event" that will galvanize the sleeping masses to the violent right-wing apocalypse of their wet dreams, or the religious nihilists like Dreher for whom "even if it's an accident" they can still blame satanic homos and dark Muslims for the death of whatever it is they are desperate to keep alive. (Where was Rod when God destroyed Touchdown Jesus* with a bolt of lightning? Now there was a shitload of symbolism served up on a platter.)
I took my Cathedral & Pastry tour of Europe back in the 70's, and as far as Western history and great spiritual icons go I didn't find Notre Dame any more or less impressive than Chartres or a zillion others. Not that it matters. I bet even if they rebuilt it with theater props and papier-mache it would still be as ultra-meaningful for Rod Dreher as the Ark Encounter of Kentucky is for his target Ben-Oppers.
Understanding Notre Dame’s white supremacist symbolism does not involve being able to spell it, I see. A credit to his race, Spencer is. *sage Yoda nod*
Okay, I'm with Rod now. All my foundations are crumbling. Jesus, I thought Richard Spencer was The Thinking Man's Nazi, it turns out the fucker can't even spell?
Fucking brilliant column today, Roy. Thanks for reminding us why the fascists aren't happy--not just because the people they hate still exist, but because even when they win, they lose. They control a lot of countries, but they haven't won over the culture; instead of giving them the adulation they think they deserve, ordinary people are calling them out on their bullshit, and they can't take it.
P.S. Kudos also to Nick M for such an erudite response. I had to look up the Peninsular war, the Amritsar massacre, and the Nakba, but I got more evidence of man's inhumanity to man, so... thanks, I guess?
I never saw Notre Dame either, and thank God I never will. It's just another church built by Whore of Rome's psychologically enslaved minions. A true monument to human misery. Instead, I saw Cutie Pai in Shibuya a few years back. Ha Ha! I got the better deal.
On our multi-day tour of Paris our guide took us to the Notre Dame block, but then routed us to the back side and farther away for most of the day to a lot of wonderful locations. Ended up at the front of the cathedral in late afternoon. Our guide concluded the official tour for that day and suggested that we could go inside if we wished, but it would be crowded, and he considered the area exceptional ridden with pickpockets.
Bravo!
One column like this is worth a thousand of...well, anything.
I skimmed Dreher’s blog long enough to several posts on the fire, including one that took the opportunity to flog his fricking Benedict Option book again. Stay classy, Rod. Oh...and these goobers do realize that ND was falling apart even before the fire not because of the libs destroying Western civ but because the church wouldn’t pony up for its maintenance, right? Sigh...
"When the church went ablaze, the inchoate cry they sent up was not a cry for vengeance or even of sorrow at the damage to a cultural monument — it was the baffled cry of a child who can’t understand why no one picks him up and hugs him anymore when he throws a tantrum."
(And sometimes they create their own little blazes in response, and/or chant "____ will not replace us!" They may even get in a car and try to run over people.)
Holy s@#t.
Upvotes for turning “9-11” into a verb. “We shall all nine-eleven when we go...”
"The Cathedral de Norte Dame" is the strip mall store front evangelical mission Rod Dreher will set up in El Paso for Anglos Only.
<The fire that destroyed Paris’s iconic cathedral made manifest what we in the West have been doing to ourselves for over 200 years>
Yes! Finally, everything has been made clear!
Until this event, even the handful of visionaries who hadn't been lulled into a false sense of security (Rod Dreher foremost among them, of course) - even this precious few had been able to discern only faint hints and cryptic suggestions from the atrocities of the Peninsular war, the Amritsar massacre, the Holocaust, the Nakba, Hiroshima, Vietnam, Iraq, the slave trade, the KKK, apartheid, the Catholic priests' sex-abuse scandals, Hitler's pope, Putin's Russian-Orthodox Church...
This was characteristically splendid, Roy. I don't know which is worse: the Steve Bannons and Richard Spencers who yearn for the next Reichstag fire or PNAC-style "catastrophic and catalyzing event" that will galvanize the sleeping masses to the violent right-wing apocalypse of their wet dreams, or the religious nihilists like Dreher for whom "even if it's an accident" they can still blame satanic homos and dark Muslims for the death of whatever it is they are desperate to keep alive. (Where was Rod when God destroyed Touchdown Jesus* with a bolt of lightning? Now there was a shitload of symbolism served up on a platter.)
I took my Cathedral & Pastry tour of Europe back in the 70's, and as far as Western history and great spiritual icons go I didn't find Notre Dame any more or less impressive than Chartres or a zillion others. Not that it matters. I bet even if they rebuilt it with theater props and papier-mache it would still be as ultra-meaningful for Rod Dreher as the Ark Encounter of Kentucky is for his target Ben-Oppers.
Understanding Notre Dame’s white supremacist symbolism does not involve being able to spell it, I see. A credit to his race, Spencer is. *sage Yoda nod*
Okay, I'm with Rod now. All my foundations are crumbling. Jesus, I thought Richard Spencer was The Thinking Man's Nazi, it turns out the fucker can't even spell?
Fucking brilliant column today, Roy. Thanks for reminding us why the fascists aren't happy--not just because the people they hate still exist, but because even when they win, they lose. They control a lot of countries, but they haven't won over the culture; instead of giving them the adulation they think they deserve, ordinary people are calling them out on their bullshit, and they can't take it.
P.S. Kudos also to Nick M for such an erudite response. I had to look up the Peninsular war, the Amritsar massacre, and the Nakba, but I got more evidence of man's inhumanity to man, so... thanks, I guess?
Roy. SO GOOD
I never saw Notre Dame either, and thank God I never will. It's just another church built by Whore of Rome's psychologically enslaved minions. A true monument to human misery. Instead, I saw Cutie Pai in Shibuya a few years back. Ha Ha! I got the better deal.
If what you say is true, Mr Dreher, what did it mean all the other times it burned?
On our multi-day tour of Paris our guide took us to the Notre Dame block, but then routed us to the back side and farther away for most of the day to a lot of wonderful locations. Ended up at the front of the cathedral in late afternoon. Our guide concluded the official tour for that day and suggested that we could go inside if we wished, but it would be crowded, and he considered the area exceptional ridden with pickpockets.