HOLY TURF WARS

HOLY TURF WARS
New York Post ^ | 4/20/04 | RALPH PETERS

Posted on 04/20/2004 12:23:09 AM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:20:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

April 20, 2004 -- WHENEVER I visit history-haunted Istanbul, my first stop is the cathedral of St. Sophia. The greatest monument of Christianity's first millenium is now a museum run by the Turkish government.

It never occurred to me to demand it back.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ralphpeters

1 posted on 04/20/2004 12:23:09 AM PDT by kattracks

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To: kattracks

Suppose the Christians of tomorrow were provoked to demand the return of the apostolic churches of Asia minor? Or the vast lands of Orthodox Byzantium? Of historical Armenia? Or of Alexandria, the city that dominated early Christian thought?

Then this Pagan will unsheath the sword and fight shoulder-to-shoulder with them.

On to Constantinople!

2 posted on 04/20/2004 12:41:51 AM PDT by John Locke

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To: kattracks

Good article.

3 posted on 04/20/2004 4:23:42 AM PDT by jonno (We are NOT a democracy - though we are democratic. We ARE a constitutional republic.)

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