Anti-rape culture and the burning of Notre-Dame Cathedral

Katherine Baker
6 min readAug 18, 2020

“The only church that illuminates is a burning church.”

I first encountered these words on a meme depicting the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral. The meme appeared before the flames had even been quenched. After some digging I discovered that the quote was attributed both to the Marxist revolutionary, Che Guevara, and to Buenaventura Durruti, an anarchist leader in…

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Katherine Baker

Orthodox Christian, widow of a priest, mother of six (living) children, gardener, and writer.