[FormerLib]

The Islamists want the bones so they can destroy them, as they do with other symbols of non-Islamic religions.

And probably build a mosque on the ashes.

But I wonder how many Rome-bashing Protestants would applaud the destruction of those relics?

[Blackyce]

As a Rome ignoring protestant, I’d imagine that most protestants don’t really care at all about magical relics. But they’ll probably balk at the idea that the Turks are the rightful heirs to all of the history of Anatolia as well. Claiming relics from a religion your nation has repeatedly tried to expel/exterminate from your territory is a bit ballsy to say the least.

[Berosus]

I thought St. Nicholas was more popular in the Orthodox Churches than he is among Catholics. Back in the time of the Tsars, for instance, Russians used to say, “If God dies, we still have St. Nicholas.”

[DeaconBenjamin]

I can’t imagine any that I know who would applaud the destruction of the relics, any more than they would applaud the worship of them.