Here’s a timely Jesus and Mo cartoon, called “dame” and produced barely a day after the event it discusses. It came with an email note, “t’s a miracle that we managed to get this cartoon out today. Thanks, God!” The last panel raises the question that must be asked of all those who said that the intact cross and altar were miracles, “Why did God allow the fire to happen at all?”
But of course His ways are mysterious. Maybe it was God’s way of letting people know that the Cathedral needed a complete renovation.
Whenever something horrible happens, God gets none of the blame.
Whenever something wonderful happens, God gets all of the credit.
Typical.
That is not true! He took all the blame for wiping out everyone but the Noah family. I have a lot of respect for the chap.
This is one of the best!
Thank g*d all that money just keeps pouring in. What will burn next.
Ages ago, I was told that responsible people should keep a budget. I tried, but I never could properly accommodate the things that “burned” (i.e. got broken / lost / stolen…). So I returned to managing my finances by intuition. And so to this day.
If Jesus is better understood, and if his teaching is properly interpreted, how easy it would all be, givan that all the faiths beleive in him, amen, great cartoon
My first thought was that “god” was sending the Catholics a message to quit hiring child molesters…
Or maybe a reminder of the admonition in Matthew 6:5-6 that only hypocrites pray out in the open in big churches or on street corners, that the Lord prefers prayer said in private from the sanctity of one’s closet.
I mean, sure, it comes about 900 years too late, going by how long ago Notre Dame was built, but what’s a millennium one way or the other to an Eternal Being?
“… that the Lord prefers prayer … from the sanctity of one’s closet.”
A lot of Catholic priests are still in the closet. That’s supposed to be pleasing to God?
This is at that point the bartender should have said, “For fuck’s sake.”
Brilliant!
I mean in the good way.
The git in the sky has finally realized
Whoops… as I was saying, that the faithful are leaving, and it’s time for some attention grabbing headlines and an update to some premises for the 21st century, taking a cue from popular Francis and the CC.
According to news headlines “Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque struck by fire on SAME night Notre Dame burns”.
Divine intervention must have been on a sickie that night.
Far more upsetting was the loss of Brazil’s National Museum and many of its irreplaceable, and actually important, artifacts.
Notre Dame is a part of human history and certainly has a role in the history of engineering and architecture. So it’s unfortunate that the fire took place.
But it’s also caustically hilarious how millions of dollars now pour in for, at the end of the day, a building, while innumerable humanitarian problems are both rife and without funding. More of that religiously minded prioritization on display.
I think religion has little to do here and if the Eiffel Tower had been damaged, there would also be huge donations.
Well, no. In that hypothetical, those who support re-building an icon such as the Eiffel Tower wouldn’t simultaneously pretend to hold the keys to absolute morality.
One would think that those who feign such “divine” authority would seek to spend that money on people rather than a burnt cathedral.
They’ve raised an enormous amount of money in a very short amount of time. Too bad they don’t care about poverty or basic research in the same way.
Poor people also need architectural beauty to look at – even more than rich people, because the latter can build or buy beautiful homes, while the poor put up with cheap ugly housing and have only public buildings to enjoy.
Not to mention that spending directly on people is a double-edged sword.
According to Faux Newz, Jesus was visible in the flames. (https://www.foxnews.com/faith-values/jesus-notre-dame-fire-photo)
Oh yeah, I can quite clearly see the shape of a standing figure in flowing robes. It is, quite plainly, a Druid. 😎
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