Rebuilding Notre Dame Upside Down

Rolling Stone magazine has run an article on rebuilding Notre Dame de Paris that has generated a lot of comment on the right. Their main point is that the cathedral should be rebuilt not as it was, but to express the “new France,” as it is today. Which, so far as we can tell from the article, represents nothing uniting or edifying. Just “joie de vivre and change.” Hedonism and relativism.

Specifically, the bit everyone is quoting is:

“The building was so overburdened with meaning that its burning feels like an act of liberation,” says Patricio del Real, an architecture historian at Harvard University.

That about says it. There is a significant portion of the modern intellectual class that actually wants to burn civilization down, because they are against meaning itself. They WANT chaos and meaninglessness.

Everything else follows.

John 3: 19-21:

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.