tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post5351007343543579036..comments2024-03-11T13:16:19.098-04:00Comments on Ad Orientem: Erdogan orders study of possibility of converting Agia Sophia into a mosque againUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-20510912556747629352020-06-13T11:04:24.100-04:002020-06-13T11:04:24.100-04:00What sane comments. The turks can do anything the...What sane comments. The turks can do anything they want. They'll probably think twice about hurting it because, let's face it, without Christian antiquity what else brings tourists there? A few years back a Turkish journalist made a comment about the Turkish annual celebrations on the anniversary of the fall of the city. He said, instead of celebrating the conquest of a city, why not celebrate the cities we've founded, created? Because there aren't any. A look at old and new photos of Istanbul show clearly the Turks were and are quite ignorant of the Roman historical sites they came to own, didn't get any idea of preservation or study til the last century. They'll do whatever bothers Greek sensibilities. An interesting aside concerns DNA analysis of their population. A genome scholar in the US determined that the typical turk is about 8% Turkish, the rest Greek. The country is mostly apostate Greek heritage. The descendants cursing the ancestors.bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14039146105983736459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-850102175237411702020-06-12T15:27:22.125-04:002020-06-12T15:27:22.125-04:00Having said that, are we agreed that Christianity ...Having said that, are we agreed that Christianity should have a Christendom, or are we all supposed to become Shakers?The Anti-Gnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386593803225823789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-10231971625974474562020-06-12T15:19:40.314-04:002020-06-12T15:19:40.314-04:00Indeed. The See of Constantinople should be declar...Indeed. The See of Constantinople should be declared vacant because, of course, Constantinople no longer exists. The Patriarch can move to Athens and, like the current Dalai Lama, resign himself to the fact that he is the last bearer of Constantinople's patrimony. This is becoming a farce, with the "Ecumenical Patriarch" setting up subordinate ethnic vicariates in other countries in order to assert global jurisdiction. As I've said, the bishops better figure this out quickly. The Anti-Gnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386593803225823789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-73430999358544279302020-06-12T06:21:35.177-04:002020-06-12T06:21:35.177-04:00Look folks we lost that beautiful church centuries...Look folks we lost that beautiful church centuries ago. Remember what Christ told the Samritan woman about the temple. I suspect that applies to any temple at an time. Lets us cast our vision upward in prayer.Archimandrite Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09894842027467584759noreply@blogger.com