The event is tragic enough, so I will resist compounding the sorrow with my own musings attempting to infuse monumental divine motivation upon an event that might very well have been the result of some guy plugging his French press coffee maker into an overloaded electrical circuit. The fire has certainly spawned a cottage industry of commentators who have shoehorned all of the many metaphorical insights. Personally, I’m a sucker for cruciform churches, but that’s just me.
We’ve certainly seen plenty of examples of that in many modern churches, both at home and abroad. I was fortunate enough to visit Notre Dame on a couple of occasions and it never failed to inspire.īut I am not looking forward to all the articles to come, many of which have already been written, about how the rebuilding will not be in keeping with a medieval gothic cathedral and the hydra-headed monster of modernism will make its presence known. The tragic destruction wrought upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris is already producing similar headlines and similar op-ed pieces, many of them ascribing God’s judgment to the fire, and suggesting all manner of metaphors that will probably give the Titanic a run for its money. The accompanying headline all in capital letters, read: “WORLD’S LARGEST METAPHOR SINKS IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC.” One front page had an etching of the Titanic with its stern high in the air above the fold. The mocking faux news site “The Onion” used to have a section on its web page that held “archival” headlines from its make-believe storied past.
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