What will Christianity do about turks defiling Hagia Sophia again???

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Bill

Malarkeyville
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.
 
Bill said:
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.
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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.
 
Thanks, I know...........

What is the Russian Orthodox going to do about it?? I am sure the Serbs wouldn't mind helping..
 
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..??
 
Cypress said:
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.
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palestinians arent a thing either.
 
Bill said:
Thanks, I know...........

What is the Russian Orthodox going to do about it?? I am sure the Serbs wouldn't mind helping..
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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.
 
Chaz said:
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.
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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......
 
Bill said:
Thanks, I know...........

What is the Russian Orthodox going to do about it?? I am sure the Serbs wouldn't mind helping..
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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
 
Cypress said:
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
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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.........
 
Never heard of them..........

Many of those "turks" probably have tons of Euro & Arab blood in them & on their hands..........
 
Bill said:
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.........
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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!
 
Clearly we should invade Turkey, drive out as many Turks as possible, confide the others into waterless desert enclaves, bully them every day and then call them terrorists if they object. What's complex about it? Must be in the Sermon on the Mount somewhere, if we look hard! :)
 
Celticguy said:
Its their country
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The eastern quarter of "Turkey" is Kurdish. Kurds are not Turks.

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A sizeable part of the remainder would be Christian - Greek or Armenian - but the Turks drove them out or exterminated them a century ago. (Turks like Erdogan still refuse to admit it.)
 
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