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Malarkeyville
What will Christianity do about turks defiling Hagia Sophia again???
Clearly the turk dictator is sending a message.....
What should civilization do about it??
Byzantine Emperor Justinian I ordered the building's construction in 532 CE; for nearly 1,000 years, its 55.6 meter (180 ft) dome covered the largest indoor space in the world. Over a millennium and a half, the monumental structure has been an Eastern Orthodox cathedral, a Roman Catholic cathedral, an Eastern Orthodox cathedral again, and then a mosque.
Today, the Hagia Sophia is one of Turkey’s largest tourist attractions; an estimated 3.7 million people visited the site in 2019. It became a museum in 1934, under a decree from the Cabinet of Ministers under then-president of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
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What do you want them to do?
Practically Perfect
It ceased to be Hagia Sophia a long time ago. Today, efforts amount to defiling a Satanic shrine.
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DeadHead
It has not been a church in 600 years. More importantly, Western Christianity traditionally has never even considered Eastern Orthodoxy true Christians. The western Christians even sacked Constantinople in the 13th century, which fatally weakened the Byzantine Empire.Originally Posted by Bill
Malarkeyville
Thanks, I know...........
What is the Russian Orthodox going to do about it?? I am sure the Serbs wouldn't mind helping..
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
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Maybe looking for a new crusade.
Malarkeyville
The Pope in Rome was sniveling about it..
I think the tyrant is doing this as a fuck you to the west.......
Now that the USA is pivoting to our problem in the east perhaps it's time to cull the NATO herd of it's most unwanted belligerent member..??
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
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palestinians arent a thing either.
Practically Perfect
The Russian state gave the Orthodox Church quite a beating during the 20th Century. It's hard to imagine Putin getting worked-up over a non-Church.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
Malarkeyville
Hard to keep up w/ his vasilations w/ turkey... He let them shoot down a plane & get away w/ it...... Of course he could have payed them back out of the public space..
I think there was one or two times the Russians were going to go in there & take back Constantinople but were prevented from doing so by the Birits...... For their own perceived selfish goals......
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
DeadHead
I doubt the patriarch of Istanbul and the Metropolitan of Moscow are very happy about this.
I personally would like to see it remain a musuem. That building is" or should be, a world heritage site
Malarkeyville
That would be the best IMHO as well.
The reason I think it really irks me is why he is doing it.....
The only reason the west allowed them to even remain was to act as a bulwark against the Russians.....
He should of stuck w/ his pan-Turkic bull shit..... he can start his personal jihad in East Turkestan.........
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
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Turkey is evil as fuck... its controlled by the sabbati zvi jacob frank illumidonkey people. the sabbateans.
Malarkeyville
Never heard of them..........
Many of those "turks" probably have tons of Euro & Arab blood in them & on their hands..........
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
DeadHead
I have not been following developments in Turkey the way I probably should.
If the question is why Western civilization does not do something about Hagia Sophia, it really is mostly a concern of Eastern Orthodoxy as represented in large measure by the Russian Orthodox church. You have to admit there is some irony expecting Eastern Orthodox Russia to ride to the rescue of Hagia Sophia, while also noting it was in the interest of the West to support Ottoman Muslims to resist Russian influence.
Let's face it: geopolitics trumps making common cause with fellow Christian nations every single time. I mean the last time the Western church promised to ally with Eastern Orthodoxy to drive back the Muslims, the westerners actually sacked Constantinople and trashed the sacred sites of Eastern Orthodoxy Christianity!
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