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| Parvis of the cathedral in 1699, via Wikimedia Commons. |
As Twitter watched the cathedral burn, I was glued to it, teary-eyed sometimes, and found myself startled every so often by a message from some big head person offering condolences to the Roman Catholic church or to French Catholics in particular, generally from a conservative standpoint:
I'm like really? That's the heartbreak?Notre Dame is an iconic symbol of faith to people all over the world – and it is heartbreaking to see a house of God in flames. Our thoughts and prayers are with the firefighters on the scene and all the people of Paris. https://t.co/5Pecbf02em— Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) April 15, 2019
And sometimes really offensively, as in the case of young Ben Shapiro, who had to be spoken to sharply:
