When the Great Fire swept through London in 1666, the fleeing citizens were convinced God was punishing them. ‘The dreadful judgement’, they called it. London’s been set alight for its ‘deadly sin of gluttony’, they wailed. A plaque put on the smoky ruins of the bakery where the fire started said: ‘Here by permission of Heaven, Hell broke loose…’ Fast forward 350 years and this view of fire as retribution, as the hellish judgement of sinning humanity, still holds. Only now the fire is set not by God, but by Gaia.
Nothing to see here. The guy seen lighting fries with a blowtorch doesn’t mean he’s an arsonist. Now if it was a white republican male then it would be an arsonist. https://t.co/EkOXDMbbiJ
— HJ (@PhillyHj) January 10, 2025
h/t patthedog
