what you said.
That sadly is true only to religions other than Islam. Their behavior towards the places of religious history and meaning to other religions is abysmal. What they have done and are doing has meaning to them in what they are trying to say to people of other faiths. So I don't think it is something to be ignored or taken lightly.
With a bit of trepedition and putting on my flame resistant suit, as an individual Christian, the Church of the Nativity is just a building. While it may have some possible historic meaning, its survival has absolutely no significance to the Body of Christ, i.e. the speading of the Gospel and the fellowship of believers.
The Church is not a building.
Absolutely!
A "priest inside the church," [Held hostage, that is!] quoted by Reuters, said: "Blah Blah Blah Blah ... carried out an armed attack on the Nativity Church ..... set fire to the parish building in front of the basilica."
Which couple of sentences demonstrate with absolute clarity and unambiguity the abject intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the reuters "reporters" and "editors" -- who went on to use such language as:
..... the 'palestinian' gunmen to surrender and release priests that "Israeli officials describe as" hostages.
And suggested without comment that:
Church officials have said the priests are "not hostages" and "have chosen to remain" in the sanctuary.
This despite that:
"Roughly 200 'palestinians'" [Who shot their way in!] are "believed" to have "taken shelter" in the church, "together with" 4 nuns and 40 Franciscan monks.
When we Civilized Peoples have finished dealing with and exterminating the 'palestinians' and the rest of the world's Hesporophobic terrorist savages, we should go after their allies, the obscene lickspittle advocates who comprise the world's media -- and string every last one of the lying bastards up in Manger Square!