This should not just irk Greece, this should irk all Christendom. Prayers that one day: Hagia Sophia be restored to the living cathedral it was designed to be, and that Istanbul be reverted back to its original identity: CONSTANTINOPLE.
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
I float the idea of turning Istanbul back into Constantinople.
2 posted on
03/26/2019 1:51:07 PM PDT by
PGR88
To: CondoleezzaProtege
I think it would be great if Israel should turn that stupid dome thing into a synagogue.
3 posted on
03/26/2019 1:51:28 PM PDT by
fhayek
To: CondoleezzaProtege
5 posted on
03/26/2019 1:56:47 PM PDT by
Pearls Before Swine
( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Cool. Maybe we’ll turn Al Aqsa into an outhouse.
6 posted on
03/26/2019 1:58:11 PM PDT by
Boogieman
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Muslims have done that to churches again and again. This is nothing new.
7 posted on
03/26/2019 2:04:28 PM PDT by
laplata
(The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Damn, no more filming of James Bond action scenes in there.
8 posted on
03/26/2019 2:05:07 PM PDT by
rfp1234
(I don't watch CNN for the same reason I don't drink from the toilet.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
It was a mosque from after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople until Ataturk overthrew the Ottoman Empire. Erdogan seems intent on overthrowing Ataturk's vision of a modern, secular Turkey.
What's next? Will he proclaim himself Caliph?
To: CondoleezzaProtege
To: CondoleezzaProtege
This should not just irk Greece Greek Orthodox name doesn't particularly pertain to Greece, it is the church of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine), and was conducted in the Greek language. As you say, it should irk all Christians, and everyone who respects history. As Christians were offended when the Taliban blew up Buddhist statues, everyone should unite against this muslim extremism.
11 posted on
03/26/2019 2:09:21 PM PDT by
Wayne07
To: CondoleezzaProtege
The Church of Scripture is His assembly, and not a physical building.
If this buildings future identity is museum, or mosque, or palace, it is not a spiritual loss.
In fact, it might shake the assembly into going back to what God said is important.
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk closed Hagia Sophia as a mosque in 1935 and declared it a museum.
His drive to secularize Turkey is now being undone by the would be Sultan Erdogan.
If he converts it into a mosque, Turkey should be immediately expelled from NATO and permanently denied entry into the EU.
Never trust a Muslim!
14 posted on
03/26/2019 2:40:37 PM PDT by
elcid1970
(My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
To: CondoleezzaProtege
So typical of a doctrinaire Moslem, wanting to conquer everything and all that.
To: CondoleezzaProtege
TODAY THE HAGIA SOPHIA!
TOMORROW THE NOTRE DAME!
THE NEXT DAY THE SISTINE CHAPEL!
16 posted on
03/26/2019 2:43:20 PM PDT by
Savage Beast
(The Trump Revolution is the Resistance to the Decadence of Western Civilization.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
It has been a mosque for several hundred years.
To get the feeling of the place, Richard Haliburton got locked in at night and had it all to himself.
Wiki says they ceased using it as a mosque in 1931
18 posted on
03/26/2019 2:49:20 PM PDT by
bert
( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
All previous leaders of Turkey understood that to be a red line.
19 posted on
03/26/2019 2:49:21 PM PDT by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.”)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
We must retake Constantinople.
To: CondoleezzaProtege
I only speak for myself, but I wouldn’t send anyone to die over Hagia Sophia today
25 posted on
03/26/2019 4:18:22 PM PDT by
Mount Athos
(A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
"Erdogan Floats Turning Former Cathedral HAGIA SOPHIA Into Mosque" Because nothing screams inter-religious harmony like turning one of Christianitie's most profoundly beautiful, spiritual and historic structures into a monument to Islamic hegemony. Proof positive that Islam is a religion of pieces.
26 posted on
03/26/2019 5:51:14 PM PDT by
Desron13
(You may choose to ignore reality but you can't force reality to ignore you.)
To: Ad Orientam; antonius; aposiopetic; arielguard; bad company; blinachka; bob808; Brad's Gramma; ...
Orthodox Ping!
Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!
27 posted on
03/26/2019 6:33:02 PM PDT by
lightman
(Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
If it hasn’t happened yet, I don’t believe it will happen.
29 posted on
03/26/2019 6:59:15 PM PDT by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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