By Colby Malsbury
Just as we were getting ready to pop the champagne on April 15th to ring in the anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination, our ardor was dampened by the tragic news coming from Paris that the ancient landmark Notre Dame was ablaze, with its wooden medieval latticework and trademark spire completely gone at a minimum, along with who knows what else in the way of decor within. Perhaps a sadly apt metaphor as, of course, April 15th was also Tax Day in the US.
The initial story being put forth is, unsurprisingly, that the fire was entirely accidental. Sure, why not? I was born yesterday. The incongruities regarding this line of reasoning began piling up almost immediately. The gamut ranged from an immediate moanfest from the Jewish Daily Forward lamenting all the treasure the Tribe lost in this holocaust to the amazingly ‘coincidental’ flurry of other iconic buildings that also mysteriously caught fire the last few days – from Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque to Brazil’s premier natural history museum to an attempted arson on St. Patrick’s Cathedral . It seems clear that this event was a major acceleration of the current meta-narrative regarding church desecration (and equally simulated ‘Christian’ reactions to same) in order to foment the chaos required for a phoenix of pagan internationalism to arise from the ashes. Indeed, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there is indeed a concerted push on now to transform Notre Dame into a modern-day French Revolution-era Temple of Reason… of which the Torch of Liberty was its most defining characteristic. Aren’t Cryptocratic riddles wonderful?
