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Decision Not to Rebuild Church Destroyed on 9/11 Surprises Greek Orthodox Leaders
Fox News ^ | August 18, 2010 | David Lee Miller and Kathleen Foster and FoxNews.com's Judson Berger

Posted on 08/18/2010 8:59:38 AM PDT by americanophile

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To: americanophile

WTC site:

For Muslims Only


21 posted on 08/18/2010 9:38:25 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman
"WTC site: For Muslims Only"

They were the ones to clear it out, after all.

22 posted on 08/18/2010 9:41:25 AM PDT by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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To: americanophile

Two words for the Port Authority: Hagia Sophia.

You better believe the Greeks won’t forgive or forget this one.


23 posted on 08/18/2010 9:44:09 AM PDT by Loyalist
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To: americanophile

Mosque is paying for everything 100%

Church wants more taxpayer money than the Port Authority was originally offering. It seems like they got a tad bit greedy.

“The archdiocese and Port Authority now offer sharply conflicting accounts of where things went wrong. The Port Authority has previously claimed the church was making additional demands — like wanting the $20 million up front and wanting to review plans for the surrounding area. They say the church can still proceed on its own if it wishes.

“The church continues to have the right to rebuild at their original site, and we will pay fair market value for the underground space beneath that building,” a spokesperson with the Port Authority told Fox News”

I understand the outrage regarding the mosque, but wouldn’t you be even more upset if the mosque was demanding taxpayer funds for its inception? I’ve been following this for a few years and it seems like the people behind this Church want the original one to be “Super-Sized” on the taxpayer’s dole. Too bad real life isn’t McDonald’s.

“The church continues to have the right to rebuild at their original site, and we will pay fair market value for the underground space beneath that building,” a spokesperson with the Port Authority told Fox News”


24 posted on 08/18/2010 9:52:03 AM PDT by MaritS
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To: texmexis best

Funny thing is... all the Greek Americans I know are long standing Liberals and positively Ga Ga about “O”


25 posted on 08/18/2010 9:52:10 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What luck for rulers that men do not think." Adolph Hitler)
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To: DoughtyOne; Jim Robinson
“Why look, we not only took out the WTC towers, but we took out a Christian church in the process, and the port authority has prevented it from being rebuilt. A victory for Alah.”

Agreed.

Why was this pulled off the News/ACTIVISM sidebar?
FR has the influence to make this church into every bit as big a story as the Ground Zero Mosque.

It is a perfect symmetry. We should use it.

26 posted on 08/18/2010 9:52:10 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Government is an apex predator.)
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To: Carry_Okie

I agree. We should push it. Good call.


27 posted on 08/18/2010 9:55:13 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (UniTea! It's not Rs vs Ds you dimwits. It's Cs vs Ls. Cut the crap & lets build for success.)
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To: Army Air Corps
I’ll put my lot in with my fellow Christians..

I will join you. The powers of darkness have already lost their battle. Come Lord Jesus.

28 posted on 08/18/2010 9:55:48 AM PDT by afnamvet (Patriots Rising)
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To: SMARTY

This is true in my experience as well. Its a big socialist society, some of the most rabid anti-Bush nuts I knew happened to be naturalized Greeks. I don’t think that they’d be much too opposed seeing the US getting as fuxored as their native country currently is.


29 posted on 08/18/2010 9:56:37 AM PDT by MaritS
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To: Carry_Okie

It’s good to see your post Carry_Okie. Hope all is going good for you and your family.

BTW, CalCowGirl has been around over the last month or so.


30 posted on 08/18/2010 9:58:07 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (UniTea! It's not Rs vs Ds you dimwits. It's Cs vs Ls. Cut the crap & lets build for success.)
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To: SMARTY

I wonder why. He stands against anything Greek, including the Greek underpinnings of the West.


31 posted on 08/18/2010 10:05:05 AM PDT by texmexis best (My)
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To: Blue Turtle

I am surprised - stunned - also. But I also remember reading predictions, Biblical and otherwise, of events such as these.

God is watching, always.


32 posted on 08/18/2010 10:15:11 AM PDT by cvq3842
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To: americanophile

Oh. My. God. I have to go puke.


33 posted on 08/18/2010 10:28:46 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

And these are the good old days. Like the last days of the Weimar Republic. Or Saigon.


34 posted on 08/18/2010 10:30:26 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: MaritS

The fricgkin musk wasn’t DESTROYED on 9-11. I don’t know if all the arguments add up, but that is an essential difference between the two situations. You can’t compare them in that way.


35 posted on 08/18/2010 10:34:29 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: americanophile

Not SURPRISED. This is just the continuation of the old Christian East/West battle vs. Islamic East fight, which goes back CENTURIES.


36 posted on 08/18/2010 10:36:13 AM PDT by Biggirl (AZ Is DOING THE JOB The Feds Should Be Doing, ENFORCING The Southern Border! =^..^=)
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To: americanophile

” MUSLIMS MUST ATONE BEFORE MOSQUE IS BUILT AT WTC, WHERE MIRACLES WERE THOSE OF JESUS

It is one thing to respect religious freedom and to nurture relations between all God’s people and everyone, but it is also wrong to forget that two huge buildings fell in New York due to religious extremism built on hatred.

That extremism came not from Christians or Hindus or Buddhists, but from militant Muslims, and before any Muslim center is built in the shadows of “Ground Zero,” Muslims need to atone for what occurred nine years ago next month.

However much most Muslims disdain the actions of radicals (and most do), it is a simple fact that a great tragedy costing innocent lives and untold psychological trauma was done in the name of Islam. The center is planned at the site of a building that in fact sustained damage during the attacks (when the landing gear assembly of one plane fell onto it).

The Cordoba House, as it would be known, “was supposed to be a monument to religious tolerance, an homage to the city in Spain where Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together centuries ago in the midst of religious foment,” says The New York Times.

This is laudable. It is essential. There should be no knee-jerk reactions to that aspect. Do they have a legal right? They do.

“Supporters of the mosque and cultural center in lower Manhattan, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, say its development should stand as a testament to religious tolerance in America,” says Fox News. “They say it would be a mistake to equate Islam as a whole, and its practice in the United States, with Al Qaeda — and remind critics that Muslims were also killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center.”

But meanwhile, New York City authorities have dragged their feet in approving a Christian building, Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church — which was destroyed on 9/11 by the collapse of the Twin Towers. It has spent nine long years trying to get building permits.

How about a Christian center?

For it was Jesus Who was witnessed — His intervention — by many of those who miraculously survived the disaster.

He was even seen (allegedly) by one surviving broker as a apparition.

Other Christians heard voices that guided them to safety. And before September 11 were a good number of Catholics who had premonitions or were miraculously kept away that fateful morning (or prepared for it).

On September 11, a man named Ron DiFrancesco who worked for Euro Brokers in the south tower at the World Trade Center found himself in a horrifying struggle to find his way down and away from the searing flames that would soon collapse the structure after the terrorists’ plane struck just below Euro’s offices.

Blocked from descending by a collapsed wall, a number of others were stretched face-down on the floor, crying and gasping for air, but something remarkable had occurred to DiFrancesco. “Someone told me to get up,” he says. Someone “called” him. The voice was male and insistent but belonged to no human. “Get up!” it said.

DiFrancesco did, with the sensation that someone or something was helping him up (”Hey! You can do this,” he swears he heard), and this terrified man was led to the stairs — where he saw a point of light, followed it, fought his way through drywall and other debris, and was directed through flames that normally would have stopped him.

DiFrancesco descended to safety moments before the skyscraper fell, one of just four people who survived from the 84th floor or above.

These and other accounts are in a book called The Third Man Factor (by John Geiger with Vincent Lam).

Afterwards, debris fell into the shape of a Cross (those two famous beams, a sign if ever there are signs), and clouds or lights shaped like crosses were also spotted in association with the towers.

Considering how many worked in those two buildings and surrounding structures, it’s a miracle many more did not die. But seldom is there talk of a monument to the Lord’s intervention — nor assurance that those two beams will be permanently allowed there.

There was also a mysterious trumpet player spotted in the days after the tragedy, which many felt was the Archangel Gabriel.

If so, we can find common ground here — with Gabriel — with Muslims. We should always do that. We are called to love Muslims. It is crucial to do this — critical. They too believe in the archangels. They honor the Blessed Mother. Jesus loves them. There is no place for hatred.

But to always cow-tow to other religions while ignoring Christianity is beyond unfair and inches toward the realm of persecution. Would a president have okayed a Catholic center at Ground Zero if Catholics had engineered the destruction? Would Mayor Bloomberg?

At the least, those behind the Muslim center should lead in the public atonement.”

http://www.spiritdaily.com/mosquegroundzero.htm


37 posted on 08/18/2010 10:45:28 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: ichabod1

And? The point is that over the past few years the Port Authority has made generous offers to rebuild the church in that location and seeing dollar signs, they turned them down to see how much they could pull from Uncle Sam. You can’t even blame Obama for this because a large part of it was happening during Bush’s second term.

I believe that the church should be rebuilt, however they’re not entitled to excessive taxpayer funding just because they want to make version 2.0 a little bit more luxurious on the backs of taxpayers.


38 posted on 08/18/2010 10:46:53 AM PDT by MaritS
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To: americanophile

Also, you can do with your property what you want. But only if its a mosque. No Walmart in all of NYC, no Church for you Christians.


39 posted on 08/18/2010 10:56:33 AM PDT by steve0 (My plan B: christianexodus.org/)
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To: eleni121

Don’t let the media convince you that evil has triumphed. The good guys are about to display their numbers and power because the people who go to work everyday, the ones who make up the military and police forces and the ones who go to church every Sunday have been pushed about as far as they’re willing to be pushed.


40 posted on 08/18/2010 10:57:16 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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