{"id":64686,"date":"2019-04-17T06:29:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T06:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=64686"},"modified":"2019-04-17T06:32:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T06:32:22","slug":"fanning-the-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=64686","title":{"rendered":"Fanning the flames"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron — winds blowing east from Notre Dame ground zero fans the brush-fires of fear, prejudice and concpiracy — this, and a poetic and sacred alternative ]
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It’s often said, and has no doubt been said many times since the horrific fire at Notre Dame began, that fire rages. By the same token, rage inflames. It is rage, and not truth, that brings us these horrific Twitter posts, which I can bring here courtesy of Buzzfeed<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A great beauty DoubleQuoted:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Loss of Notre Dame<\/strong> is horrific enough without pouring hatred onto the flames.<\/p>\n

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May I refer you to Thomas Merton<\/strong>‘s great poem of sacred, sacrificial fire, Elegy for the Monastery Barn<\/a>, and to these brief but potent lines from TS Eliot<\/strong>‘s Four Quartets<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The dove descending breaks the air
\nWith flame of incandescent terror
\nOf which the tongues declare
\nThe one discharge from sin and error.
\nThe only hope, or else despair
\n Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre\u2014
\n To be redeemed from fire by fire.<\/p>\n

Who then devised the torment? Love.
\nLove is the unfamiliar Name
\nBehind the hands that wove
\nThe intolerable shirt of flame
\nWhich human power cannot remove.
\n We only live, only suspire
\n Consumed by either fire or fire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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