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

Cypress said:
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!
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Yes, but the pope apologized..:rolleyes:


Yes, when I found out about it I was very pissed, but it was certainly typical of the UK...... That's their "western values" on full display......

Perhaps we should boycott Nestles?? Better late than never.:) lol
 
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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What is the problem supposed to be?
 
Bill said:
No, it's conquered parts of Greece........
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Asia Minor was a mixture of allsorts. The majority of the population in the western part mostly speak Turkish and are Muslim, and have been so for some time, though Tranquilius is of course right about the Kurds. Twentieth-century type nationalism has made a mess of all sorts of societies, most of them dominated by half-witted bullies attacking minorities to cover their own inadequacy. Look at China, look at France, etetera etcetera. Alas!.
 
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