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A man who shot himself dead inside Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is reported to be a far-right author who campaigned against gay marriage and Islam. The famous cathedral, which draws 14m visitors every year, was evacuated following the incident, at 4pm local time on Tuesday.

This Man INFURIATES me.

By killing himself on Christian soil, he was trying to re-appropriate Christianity to his message. At least, insofar as I interpret his motives.

But no matter what, he was trying to curry the Christian narrative to his own cause, when he had no place doing so. And the reason why this shouldn’t be treated as an isolated event is that France is in the middle of passing gay marriage into Law, and his act is so thoroughly political that there’s no way of it not being interpreting as, most probably, ‘a true Christian act’.

Christianity is very very old, and so so complicated, that any such attempt to castrate its history and tradition to use it for a single message is infuriating and insulting to Christianity, and I am in no way Christian, but a lover of ancient cultures.

My condolences to his family, but I despise his motives, which are too often seen today.