I was reading a piece that was written about the fire, against the backdrop of inequality in France that has been protested in the streets lately. The writer cited the amount of money that was donated and the speed in which it was come up with from just a few people in France (including the richest man in Europe).
And he compared it to a museum in Brazil that burned down in a fire last year. They lost everything, ancient artwork and cultural things that can't be reclaimed by any amount of money. To date the have received 15 million from everyone in the world who is concerned combined. The French church charity numbers are over a billion.
Now there is a lot of misinformation floating about the financial aspect concerning the french church donations. People are saying the rich are getting write offs and using it to launder money. That one guy who is the richest man in Europe said he passed the threshold that you can write off for the year as soon as the fiscal year started. Then he said only in France do you get criticism for giving money away haha.
Europeans have much bigger fish to fry but I think the reason it's most upsetting is that it's a symbol of christian europe's death. Christian people, particularly the ones in Europe have a long history of violent antisemitism, hatred, conquering and war. Yet, without being chastened by the roots in christianity they are even more violently depraved.
WW1 was so terrible for all in Europe, the good christian folk, germans killing french and british and vice versa, they lost their christian identity and replaced it with enlightened culture and reason and science and completely distanced themselves from it. The superior multicultural betters of Europe at that point brought humanity nazi ideology and practice, communism, cold war, communist vs fascist wars in every country in europe between the wars, and then the Holocaust.
It's obvious to anyone on planet earth who has the intellect to read the religious books of Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc and a knowledge of the political borders of the various countries and who makes them and who is allowed to do what, that planet earth is and has always been gripped in religious war.
The only difference between one person here and another there is whether or not they realize this or care to acknowledge it. This is especially true in America, where it is easier to insulate oneself with wealth and create an alternate reality to the one that exists everywhere else outside the walls of the gated community or country club estate.
I don't think anything good has ever come from burning a religious building, killing the people of whatever religion just because so and so says, or even burning the books. It's all the same comes from the same dark place. TBH, real talk, if that's how someone feels and they can't shake it, the only one you really hate and should point a gun to, is the man in the mirror.
IDK why I even fly my unidentified *** down here when I start seeing people do stuff and react this way smh...
