Dear NYer,
I think the information about the altar is very interesting.
But I think that seamole brought up a good point that one might wish to be cautious with the website. Look, I wouldn't let my 10 year-old read the page of this site speaking about the ironies involved with gay love.
"I don't see any criticism of his other poor terminology or translation."
Well, that's because it isn't my intention to criticize the webmaster for his poor terminology or translation. That would be uncharitable.
In this case, I raised the point of perhaps a deficiency in translation so that I could show how we might GIVE THE FELLOW THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT concerning what he wrote. Better to be a poor writer of English than one who endorses homosexual relations. I don't think God will keep anyone out of Heaven for the former.
Personally, I appreciated seamole's heads-up about the rest of the site. When I find cool stuff on the web, especially cool CATHOLIC stuff, I often show it to my sons. I wouldn't have appreciated clicking on the page about Ss. Sergius and Bacchus and having my older son read aloud to my younger son about the ironies of gay love vis-a-vis these two saints. Whether it's a translation problem or not, it would have been quite inappropriate.
Again, thanks, seamole, for pointing out the difficulty with this site.
sitetest
The only reason I brought up the Church of Sergius and Bacchus is because it had its exterior depicted, and I was wondering about the exterior of the church of the altar. So, do you know if that is the same church?
I am sorry it lead to the hijacking of the thread, it was not my intention. For the record, I do not have plans to travel to Syria for spiritual instruction in the near future, although if I do, I promise to steer clear of gay indoctrination websites.