And Again

[poliphilo]

The attack in Paris has disturbed me more than the bombings of London ever did. London is used to being bombed; it can take it- as the old wartime slogan said.  I keep thinking how Paris is the city of light- the home of the philosophes and the revolution and in some ways the cultural heart of Europe- and how an attack on it is a blasphemy against all that is best in our civilisation. The odd thing is I don't even like Paris that much- the stones and tarmac of it, I mean- but then I'm not thinking about stones and tarmac...

Comments

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Me too :( am full of fear and rage.

Paris was a place of beautiful escape. We would stay near Boulevard Richard Lenoir, near where the atrocity took place. It was so lovely.

Those scum. And they killed one of their own. That unfortunate policeman they shot in cold blood was a Muslim.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

You know as well as I do that that civil war was bloody nasty in both directions.

It was a truly grisly affair.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

That's our part of town and we know the Charlie office.

However, it's not new, even in Paris.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Paris has as bloody a history as any city.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

I try to resist, but find myself losing patience with religion in general. The claimed benefits for the individual remain, as always, a matter of faith, while its baleful effects on society are all too plain to see. It's so bad that, when the Bishop of Rome uses his faith to justify compassion and ordinary decency, it makes headline news. And even then the story itself is about how such radical notions will anger so many of his flock, how they will simply ignore him and vote conservative anyway.