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Jan. 24, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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What Went Up in Flames

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	Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
	A terrible fire tore through Notre Dame Cathedral on April 15th.
	Almost while the building was still smoking, the richest people in France pledged $1 billion to help pay for reconstruction.
	Why? Because the cathedral is one of the most famous, admired, and beloved buildings in the history of the world.
	I clearly remember feeling veneration and wonder when I first set foot in that cathedral when I was nine years old.
	It is truly a prayer to God offered up in stone.
	Who built this wonder?
	The most despised people in history.
	They were white.
	I'm sure they were also homophobic and sexist.
	It was during the Crusades, so they were certainly racist, imperialist Islamophobes.
	Their descendants built empires in Africa and Asia to crush the life out of the natives.
	How did such vicious people and their neighbors on the same continent manage to compose the most inspiring music, the most glorious poetry and literature?
	How did they discover the continents, create science, medicine, build the modern world?
	Well, of course, we're to believe that white people have nothing to be proud of.
	E.J. Dixon wrote in Rolling Stone that, quote, Notre Dame has served as a deep-seated symbol of resentment, a monument to a deeply flawed institution, the church, of course, and an idealized Christian European France that arguably never existed.
	She even found a Harvard historian of architecture.
	Named Patricio Del Real to tell her that, and I quote, the building was so overburdened with meaning that its burning feels like an act of liberation.
	Hafska Askar, who is the vice president of the student union of the University of Lille in France, feels the same way.
	She tweeted this, I swear to Allah, we don't give a rat's ass.
	I don't give a damn about Notre Dame because I don't give a damn about the history of France.
	As you can see in the upper right, she has also tweeted, We ought to gas all these whites, this under-race.
	Well, thanks largely to newcomers like Miss Oscar, every day in France, two churches are desecrated.
	There were 1,063 such attacks in 2018, which was a 17% increase over the year before.
	This one says,"Death to France.
	Long live Islam.
	Long live Bin Laden." This French church got slightly rougher treatment.
	The surge of Muslims since 2015 has brought a sharp rise in attacks on German churches too.
	But back to Notre Dame.
	The French started building it in 1160 and finished it about 100 years later.
	That means...
	Five generations of Frenchmen were faithful to a vision received from their forefathers.
	They were a confident people, a proud people, with faith in themselves and in God.
	And remember, this breathtaking building, with its gorgeous tracery, the graceful innovation of its flying buttresses, was built entirely by hand.
	The design was drawn by hand.
	Every stone was carved by hand.
	Every stone was lifted as high as 200 feet by pure manpower.
	Did you ever think about how people in the 12th century got all that stone so high up in the air?
	They used treadmill cranes.
	Here's one.
	It's still in the spire of Salisbury Cathedral.
	Two men walked side by side inside the wheel as they winched each stone up on a rope that reached down for more than 350 feet.
	These wheels had to be moved all around the cathedral to haul up stones that had to fit perfectly into place.
	The rafters that held up the roof of Notre Dame were made from 13,000 oak trees that were 300 to 400 years old.
	The cathedral was damaged during the French Revolution and beams had to be replaced.
	At that time, the French planned ahead and planted a new grove of trees at Versailles.
	They're now 200 years old, ready to be used.
	Could the French today work on a single structure for 100 years?
	Could they plant trees that might be needed 200 years from now?
	France may not even be French.
	200 years from now.
	Billionaires want to rebuild an old building.
	But what can they build that's new?
	Here's a different Notre Dame, or Our Lady.
	It's Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles.
	It was built with computer-aided design, modern materials, and machinery of all kinds.
	Would anyone stop on the streets to weep and pray if it burned down?
	What was it about the genius of our ancestors 800 or even 2,500 years ago who could design and build with their bare hands buildings that will be admired for as long as our species lasts?
	In the 20th century, Parisians built a new monument for the ages.
	The Pompidou Center was the best they could do.
	The French, like Most people in the West have lost their vision, lost their confidence.
	We were a great people when we believed in ourselves, when we knew that we could reach heights no other people could attain.
	Billionaire Bernard Arnault is going to write a big check to preserve Notre Dame.
	Would he spend a dime to preserve the people who built it?
	France will not be French without the descendants of the people who built the cathedrals, not only to God, but to music and theatre.
	Cathedrals to all the arts, the very arts that the new inhabitants of France despise.
	How many millions of French Muslims would love to smash the Venus de Milo to rubble, just as Muslims smashed the ancient Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan?
	In rebuilding Notre Dame, if the future inhabitants won't give a rat's ass for it by Allah.
	Only when the French once again know who they are, are proud of who they are, and know who they will be 200 years from now, only then will they be able not just to preserve beautiful old things, but build beautiful new things.
	And come take a look at our podcast channel.
	That's on YouTube at Amran Podcasts.
	And please visit our website.
	That's at amran.com.

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