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You can go and worship there if you like, if that’s the kind of culture to you like.The so called moderator tries to stop him and says “Now we’re just bickering.” Kirsch takes the interruption as a chance to try to salvage something:Kirsch: Well I do believe Notre dame is a Medieval cathedral.Yes, around which Thomas Aquinas once flew, you might be interested to knowHe levitated We have witnesses! After leaving one of his books on the high altar for God to read, and receiving by channeling a favorable review, he flew in delight around the knave of Notre Dame. You can check it out. And many people think that’s culture.something got demolished there, but it wasn the Basilica of Sacr Cur!I thought visitors here might enjoy Brian Sewell remarks on Sacr Cur in his documentary The Naked Pilgrim:And here I am, on the hill in Montmartre, on top of which is the church of Sacre Coeur. Most sacred heart of Jesus, it says on the facade of the monstrous building. It contains nothing, it doesn’t have the sacred heart of Jesus, it doesn’t have his foreskin, it doesn’t have his toe nails, it doesn’t have anything of any interest at all. It pretends to be Byzantium, it pretends to be Santa Sofia in Istanbul, it pretends to be any great church of the Byzanti, Romanesque, or whatever period you like, and it is a monster. Idiot tourists in their millions flock up the fenicular, come here in some toy train borrowed from Disneyland, climb the stairs, go in, wander round, wonder why they’re there and come out again, having bought a souvenir or two. That’s the sum total of it. Why do they do it? They do it because it is here. Just look at it. It’s hideous. HIDEOUS! . . . It doesn’t get any better the closer one gets. In fact it has a rather nasty smooth, unworn look about it. It still looks new. Best part of a hundred years old and it still looks new. Though needless to say they are appealing for funds for its restoration. Everywhere you go in this church you will find an offertory box. Money for this. Money for that. Money for the other thing. And money for restoration. I think they should knock it down, indeed I think God should indeed knock it down. It is so hideous. Just imagine if God has any aesthetic sense, what he must have been thinking of this vile church for the last hundred years.I watched the whole thing on youtube as soon as it was available a few years ago. 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