Turkey: a 1500-year-old basilica discovered in Lake Iznik
Posted on 01/31/2014 1:34:36 PM PST by NYer
They'll find them underneath all of the Obama temples.
What AWESOME ruins! Thanks, Sunk!
Just like what happens here, out West, when you have a population of some “endangered species” overrunning your place. Talk about it and you’ll be crushed by alphabet agencies for the rest of your days. These people probably just want to be left alone.
Those crazy Turks (who renamed Constantinople to New Amsterdam, did I get that piece of musical history right?), and now we learn they built a church under a lake!
Interesting and I wasn’t aware that basilicas were a standard design of the Roman government.
Sure it would! All that extra heat has evaporated the water.
OTOH, I want to know how it was flooded in the first place.
Good find. Can’t wait to hear and see what they find there.
Good one. Now the Baptists will love you.
“When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.”
I guess the parishioners all used snorkels?
Why are you kidding? :-) Byzantine Christians absolutely baptize by immersion (and only by immersion), although their version of "immersion" in the case of adults may not make it to your standards, since they're usually immersing in a large bathtub-like tank in the church, not in a lake or swimming pool.
Here's a video for you (but you have to get approximately to the middle of the video to see the actual "getting wet" part of the baptism).
They were, but the nation’s schools don’t teach history any longer, they indoctrinate children with Marxist agitprop; also the basilica is now associated with Christianity (more specifically, Catholicism) and that’s off-limits too.
You point out a real tragedy when truth is the first casualty of dogma - left or right. When we lose the fight for truth nothing else really matters does it?
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Swamp. Sounds like you’re talkin’ about DC, right? Too many swampthings to count.
That looks like Noah’s Ark to me....who ya kiddin’?
Turkish experts on Byzantium-—laughable... considering the Muslim Turks have burned bombed looted flooded destroyed every thing Christian they could find including the original Christian inhabitants of Asia Minor. Iznik is really Nicaea where another Basilica was dynamited by the Islamic hordes under Kemal in 1923: The Dormition of the Holy Mother, where the Holy Fathers of the Church wrote the Nicaean Creed in 325 AD.
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Thanks!
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