Who gives a Dame?

Waste not and many will want not

This one's going to go over like a fart...in, uh, church.

First let me say that in a perfect world, the Notre Dame Cathedral would never have burned,  but as most of us are well acquainted with, we don't live in a perfect world.

That being said, I can't think of a bigger waste of money than spending a billion dollars to rebuild an eight hundred year old building, especially one that's a symbol of one of the world's most hateful and perverted organizations, the Catholic Church, which has spent the better part of the last forty years a) covering up the rapes its leadership committed on children in order to preserve its real estate holdings, and b) snuggling up to right wing politicians who think the Golden Rule is for wimps so that the Church's hate for the LGBQT community and its desire to keep letting men control what happens to womens' bodies can remain on the political agenda.

It's an old building--most eight hundred year old structures are no longer standing and the world is none the worse for it.  Meanwhile, we still have poverty, children going hungry, diseases that kill, people who can't afford decent housing, and underfunded education systems throughout the world.

No, a billion dollars isn't going to solve the world's problems--but it's going to bring a lot more joy and better living to a lot more people than restoring an antiquated structure so that less than 1% of the world's population can ooh and aah over its architecture.

Frankly, they should take a couple hundred thousand dollars, plow it under, and make a public park of the space.  It would be of much better use and the rest of the money could be spent on more pressing problems than a centuries old church.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee