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To: Pyro7480

It will make a nice mosque.


55 posted on 12/04/2008 10:14:01 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
"It will make a nice mosque."

Yeah, once they pull down all those statues, many of which are structurally integral, physically carved from supporting walls and turrets.

Won't be the first time. I remember seeing a Cathedral in --- I think it was Alkmaar, Holland? ---- where hundreds of statues of saints were pulled down and smashed -- by Calvinists.

These thrifty folk didn't want to spend the money for scaffolds to get up to the higher tiers and pull down the ones near the roof, so they left them there. Turned the church into a cheese warehouse. The 16th century: not the best of times.

64 posted on 12/05/2008 6:52:35 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (My contribution to reality-based argument.)
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