[Gritty]

I am not a Catholic, so I don't look at the Vatican as a "religious shrine".

But, having visited there, I look at it as an incomparable and irreplaceable repository for some of the grandest building, painting, art, objects, and culture of many centuries of the Western World.

When I say it is "irreplaceable", I mean just that. It is a treasure which the Catholic Church has collected and preserved for the Glory of God and it indeed gives Him and His creation the glory.

If the Islamics were to destroy it, it would simply be an atrocity beyond reckoning. If they succeed in destroying the Vatican, Mecca should be next.

Christianity can spiritually survive without bowing to the Vatican. Islamics can't spiritually survive without bowing or hadjiing to Mecca. If it were gone, they would be like a hive of bees with a destroyed nest and queen; doomed!

If they insist on that type of war, we should bring it to them and let them suffer the consequences of their fanaticism.

[ElkGroveDan]

I am not a Catholic, so I don't look at the Vatican as a "religious shrine".

What an odd thing to say.

I look at the Wailing Wall and the Temple Mount as religious shrines, though I am neither Jewish nor Muslim. I also look at the structure across the street as a home, even though I don't live there.

[kms61]

Two years later, and many people here still don't get it. The terrorists would love nothing better than for us to hit Mecca. Talk like that is playing right into their hands.