I actually visited the cathedral when I was 18, I was struck not only by it's beauty but by the very real feeling of faith. The people of Paris haven't just lost (or hopefully suffered great damage) to a historical building, they lost a place that the remaining actual Catholics congregated to celebrate their faith.
This being France I'd like to head off wilder speculation with a paraphrase of Napoleon's Maxim: Never ascribe to malice, that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
This will be investigated one way or the other and is something too big for covering up outside of the most tinfoil-hat rich imaginations. I'm reminded of the loss of SS. Normandie in WWII. There was ample strategic cause for suspicion as to it's loss, but in the end it was someone carelessly welding next to a stack of carelessly places life-jackets.
It doesn't matter if its an accident or deliberate occurance. What I find most disturbing is how there were large groups of people celebrating in the streets of Paris this fire.
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That I can sadly believe.
DeletePhotos show two "middle eastern" looking men, dressed in white, leaving the building, just before the fire was reported. (now scrubbed from facebook) The firefighters said it was arson until French and EU government "officers" arrived and said that it was an accident, and to say otherwise would be subject to hate speech laws. If it had been Napalmed by the Iranian air force the EU, UN and French governments would have done anything to cover it up, and as over 300 catholic churches in Europe have burned down by "accident" in the last few weeks I have to wonder---Ray
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