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As a Conservative I am appalled at this desecration of the final resting places of these great men and women. Not only did they make elaborate plans to bury themselves they gave the world some of it's very greatest art in the process, art which has been shared with the world for hundreds of years.

These are not anonymous paupers or pre-historic remains of archeological significance. These are the well known remains of historic individuals. They should be left to rest in peace as they intended and not disturbed for the amusement of moderns.

To think that our transitory desires over ride the dictates of tradition and decency if a fundametally liberal position. Just as marraige is no longer a sacred bond, the tomb too is apparently only a temporary resting place until some govt. agency decides they want to 'investigate'.

Has all decency fled our world? Why is everyone on this conservative forum so enthusiastic about this desecration?


33 posted on 07/11/2004 9:38:34 PM PDT by Jack Black
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What they accomplished while they lived is what is important; the history they wrote as a direct results of their actions is their legacy. To desecrate their final resting places to satisfy the morbid curiosity of scholars is blasphemous.

May God forgive them.

Beauseant!

35 posted on 07/11/2004 9:47:38 PM PDT by Lancelot Jones (Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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Amen.


36 posted on 07/11/2004 9:48:59 PM PDT by AnalogReigns
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The vaulted chamber was found under a stone floor behind the main altar of the Medici chapels in the church of San Lorenzo in Florence

This sounds like the desecration of a church. I have no idea how this could be permitted.

39 posted on 07/12/2004 8:38:20 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus
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You apparently have been to Hattenheim, on the Mosell river.
The church ran out of space in the cemetary, so all the bones were dug up and moved to the church basement. Layered very neatly too, I might add. At the time I was there (45 years ago) it only cost 5 phennigs to go down and look.


47 posted on 07/13/2004 1:16:42 AM PDT by rock58seg (Communists and liberals read Marx and Lenin, Conservatives understand them. BUSH/CHENEY 04)
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Why is everyone on this conservative forum so enthusiastic about this desecration?

One scarecely knows where to begin.

49 posted on 07/13/2004 6:52:38 AM PDT by Romulus ("For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.")
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For years Native American groups protested National Geographic over what they saw saw as the blasphemous desecration of their ancestral remains. It is only very recently that NG turned to being "PC" and returned the remains to tribal leaders.


51 posted on 07/13/2004 6:58:23 AM PDT by Alouette ("Your children like olive trees seated round your table." -- Psalm 128:3)
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They should be left to rest in peace as they intended and not disturbed for the amusement of moderns...To think that our transitory desires override the dictates of tradition and decency if a fundametally liberal position. Just as marraige is no longer a sacred bond, the tomb too is apparently only a temporary resting place until some govt. agency decides they want to 'investigate'.

Has all decency fled our world?

Hear, hear!

64 posted on 07/13/2004 8:25:18 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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