This may sound snarky, but I honestly don’t mean it that way — isn’t a cathedral a virtue signal almost by definition?
Macron says rebuilding Notre Dame is 'an opportunity to come together, having deeply reflected on what we have been and what we have to be and become better than we are'. Sounds like he wants to turn it from a cathedral into a virtue-signal.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/notre-dame-cathedral-fire-rebuild-spire-renovate-macron-a8873316.html …
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IIRC, a cathedral is primarily intended as an inspiring space for Catholic rituals, rites of passages, worship, music -- housing a local community of believers. Not imposing elite political ideologies on unwilling citizens.
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Wait what was it before?!
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Oh come on, it’d be weird if a president DIDN’T say something to this effect about ND, given the escalating riots & polarisation in France right now. I can’t imagine you’d complain about such a mundane comment if Macron was a conservative & the rioters w leftists.
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What's weird is our PM and opposition leader calling for Australian Tax dollars to go to rebuild ND. That's a very far reach...
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This is the guy that put up permanent fencing around the Eiffel tower and brutalizes his citizens on a daily basis. You can't get much worse than "who you are" and it doesn't look like ur gunna make it back to who u were any time soon.pic.twitter.com/WLEBZ77apk
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But wouldn’t a giant ‘virtue signal’ just sum up early 21 Century? Embarrassing though that may be for many.
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If it was built as the ultimate expression of the dominant religion of the 13th century, it makes sense that it is going to be rebuild as the ultimate expression of the dominant religion of the 21st century.
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Please explain...asking for a friend
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Never let a good disaster go to waste.
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