2/ Christianity has much glory beyond the anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism it often brought in its wake. Archbishop Lustiger did much to heal this dark history. But for a wannabe King of the Jews like yourself it’s a little comical for you to try to bandwagon ...
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3/ the cathedral as some gotcha against your enemies. What a goob.
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4/ The cathedral is a great part of the patrimony of global culture and a great tragic loss for our catholic friends. It’s destruction is a tragedy. But crack a book before you bandwagon it like you’re Bernard of Clairvaux (also a big time preacher against the Jews) ...
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6/ You know I almost forget that about 17 years before they finished the main part of the cathedral in 1260, in King ordered the burning of thousands of manuscript copies of the Talmud in Paris because the pope asked him to.
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7/ And before they put the final touches on the cathedral in the 1300s another king banished the Jews from the kingdom and took all their property. That was in 1306.
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8/ Of course, it wasn’t the end of the world. They were allowed back like a dozen years later. Of course that made it possible for all the Jews in the kingdom to be expelled again in 1394, a few decades after the cathedral was finished.
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9/ Altogether it was an awesome few centuries to be a Jew in France.
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His pal Bannon wants to destroy the Church.
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