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The deputy mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Gregoire, said the cathedral had suffered "colossal damages", and the emergency services were trying to salvage the art and other priceless pieces stored in the cathedral. A cathedral spokesman said the entire wooden interior was burning and likely to be destroyed.
Sounds like the whole thing may go up in flames. There's a reason for modern building codes. A structure made entirely out of wood, is a huge bonfire, waiting to happen. Thankfully, at this time, there are no reported deaths.
[Update: 2019-04-16 @ 0222: The Cathedral is not "made entirely out of wood" as was suggested above. There is a great deal of stone work in its construction which can be readily seen on its Wikipedia page. I was at work when I heard news of the fire, immediately took a break, loaded the story queue on my phone, saw a story submission on the fire, and pushed it out to the community. In my haste to get the story out, I failed to notice the erroneous claim about wood construction. I apologize for the error. --martyb]
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/notre-dame-cathedral-fire-today-2019-04-15/
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @08:25PM (20 children)
Church attacks: https://www.newsweek.com/spate-attacks-catholic-churches-france-sees-altars-desecrated-christ-statue-1370800 [newsweek.com]
Officials "don't know why" religious extremists are trying to damage Catholic churches. Apparently it's a strange alliance of immigrants, islamists, feminists, and atheists.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Alfred on Monday April 15 2019, @08:30PM (12 children)
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @08:33PM (2 children)
I'll never go to mass in my life, in fact I despise the catholic church. But I still hate when historical monuments, artwork, and documents are lost.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Alfred on Monday April 15 2019, @08:39PM
(Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Tuesday April 16 2019, @04:13PM
Ditto.
Even if one does not follow or agree with a philosophy or religion it is still sad to see the creations they inspire be destroyed.
To know where you are you have to understand where you've been.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday April 15 2019, @09:38PM (8 children)
Abuse victims should go for the testicles of the perpetrators instead of vandalizing things. It would speed up the eradication of the problem. In fact it would BE the eradication of the problem.
Account abandoned.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @10:32PM
The problem is, churches are breeding grounds for child molesters. Simply eradicate all perpetrators, and they will just grow back.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @10:45PM (6 children)
perpetrators can have vaginas, asshat
(Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Tuesday April 16 2019, @05:45AM (5 children)
In the Catholic Church, only men are allowed to become priests. Therefore all abuses done by Catholic priests are abuses done by men. I'm also pretty sure they won't consider someone with vagina as man.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 16 2019, @03:26PM
Perhaps not, but they may consider them a demon and there is no church law against demons becoming priests (although no one is happy when that happens).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 16 2019, @05:01PM (2 children)
You make the incorrect assumption that all perpetrators have to be priests.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday April 16 2019, @07:22PM (1 child)
Depends on what you mean with "all perpetrators". All perpetrators the original message referred to? Yes, I made that assumption. Because of the context of that message. And I continue to maintain that assumption, because I don't believe that is is incorrect.
All perpetrators that exist? Of course not. But that wasn't the topic of the thread.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @02:28PM
Ok, so Catholic Church is made up entirely of priests, with no females involved anywhere at any level. That is even more fucked up than I thought.
(Score: 2) by DeVilla on Thursday April 18 2019, @02:23AM
I was assuming in California they would be required to, at least officially.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @08:31PM (4 children)
Those "officials" do not seem honest. They lumped together everyone they hate, and blame them all for church burnings.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @08:39PM (2 children)
So you think it is a false flag? The government agents are doing this to stir up division amongst the yellow vests?
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @09:11PM (1 child)
Yep, it was linked to the 9/11 attacks by AI but now they are trying to cover it up:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-15/youtube-flags-notre-dame-fire-as-9-11-conspiracy-in-wrong-call [bloomberg.com]
(Score: 2) by Barenflimski on Tuesday April 16 2019, @05:35PM
I saw this same banner. I wondered why it was showing me a banner explaining 9/11 to me.
I saw this same banner under the launch for the Falcon Heavy a couple of days ago. Maybe it confused the launch tower and the rocket as two towers and the exhaust gases for smoke from a fire?
This must fall under not so intelligent part of the AI?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 16 2019, @12:49AM
It is strange that satanists are missing from the list.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @08:33PM
Nope. Bannon did it.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday April 16 2019, @03:49AM
Be sure to also look for long haired blonds wearing black t-shirts and sounding like the Swedish Chef: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Norwegian_black_metal_scene#Church_arsons_and_attempts [wikipedia.org]
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