There is no Church in America that draws pilgrams from many nations. The government sites were listed and brought about confusion because I mixed apples and oranges of thought. I listed secular structures because I could think of no church related place that bears the same reverence as do the DC places.
Perhaps the Alamo might qualify. It is not Christian but it is historically reverd. Would Texans take to the streets to defend the Alamo from harm? It would be somewhat comprable.
Maybe you should have said a site that drew pilgrims or that held so much importance to so many. To say one site is more sacred really doesn't get the job done. You see, whereever I kneel to pray is just as sacred as that mosque and sometimes much older, and God made because quite often it is outdoors. So you see 'as sacred' is your take on it.
The government sites were listed and brought about confusion because I mixed apples and oranges of thought. I listed secular structures because I could think of no church related place that bears the same reverence as do the DC places.
The confusion was on your part - not mine. I know the difference. I will admit I did jump on it a bit. You see, there seems to be a lot of people who have replaced religion for government and have a spiritual reverance for President Bush. Those people frighten me.
Perhaps the Alamo might qualify. It is not Christian but it is historically reverd.
Actually, the Alamo is a Christian mission. It was also a battlesite that is the reason it is preserved. As a child, when we toured the Alamo, women were encouraged to put a scarf on their heads to show respect for it as a religious place.
Just wonder how the Alamo and its history will fare in the coming years when President Bush gives amnesty to all the Mexicans and they begin as the former Mexican president told Americans of Mexican decent, "to vote,and when you vote, vote with Mexico in mind."
Would Texans take to the streets to defend the Alamo from harm? It would be somewhat comprable.
I will confess I don't know what Texans or Americans would 'take to the streets' to protect. We may very well see in the future. I read a lot of talk and a lot of bluster, but other than the people who volunteer on the border, I don't see Americans (pointing at myself also) doing much proactive defending of things important to us either spiritually or nationally - excepting, of course, the great men and women in uniform and the families who must wait in what, for me, would be a living hell.