Talk about mass hysteria, all we need now, is to find some long lost prophet who said "Notre

Am I the only person in the world who is not perturbed by the burning of a Catholic church in Paris today? Observing the mass hysteria surrounding this event has become quite sickening. I know a fire will always get media coverage merely because of the human fascination of watching flames burn away, but this is ridiculous. Within time I’m sure someone will dig something up from Nostradamus or some other long lost and forgotten prophet who predicted this, and bingo. It was “all prophesised”???

Lets put a few things in perspective by making just three important points; 1. There were (or are) no known fatalities as a result of this fire, we should be valuing human life NOT PROPERTY. 2. We all know the Catholic Church is one worldly institution that is not short of cash (or assets) to be able to rebuild this more aptly described, museum. I say museum because that is what all these odious structures are. Far from being a monument to ‘God’, they represent the very buildings and ‘towers of power’ Jesus urged us not to build. He also poignantly told us (metaphorically) that he would destroy, by his dying an ultimately brutal and unjust death at the hands of the very priests who willed it upon the Roman authorities.

The mere depictions on the face of this particular church tell the whole rotten story of how this institution became so great and powerful, despite the invocations of the very founder they are meant to follow. So sick is the Catholic religion that common sense has gone out the window. From my earliest days of understanding the Catholic faith I was led to believe in an ‘all perfect and all powerful God’ who created the universe, the planets, the earth, you and I and our first ancestors Adam and Eve. All I had to do was aspire to be ‘perfect’ like God. But the story gets a little confusing when Adam and Eve are banished from Eden for disobeying the will of God. We became ‘fallen, broken people’ who still (needed to) cleave to this ‘perfect God’. But there’s still a problem, how can we truly aspire to become something, in reality we cannot ever achieve? This was the same problem encountered by novices to the religious life up until the 1970’s when they were asked to be ‘like angels’ … it took 1960 years to realise that men (and women) cannot be angels because angels are NOT HUMAN.

The human person is a complex being and not easy to define. By default we are sexual beings with a necessity of procreation to survive as a species. Advances in science, empirical inquiry and technology are propelling humanity into the known (and unknown) universe. Catholicism cannot cleave to it’s antiquated nonsensical understanding of our world in 2020 and beyond, and so now to point no. 3. Any decent, self-respecting Catholic theologian will tell you that the ‘God’ who created the whole universe (including every galaxy) and everything in it, is not trapped (or confined) in a little cupboard up in the central altar of these structures. The People of God must take charge of their church and arrest it from this unacceptable clericalism that has strangling it, the chief proponents of which are (cardinal) Pell and his apostles.

Catholicism is in deep trouble, today Paris burns, next it could indeed be Rome. It seems awfully apparent to me that History is repeating itself and this time the Pope and his minions are playing the fiddle.