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stumbler
11-09-2008, 08:38 PM
I always love ironies like this. Somehow it just screams for the craziness of our times.

JERUSALEM -- Israeli police rushed into one of Christianity's holiest churches Sunday and arrested two clergyman after an argument between monks erupted into a brawl next to the site of Jesus' tomb.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107ap_ml_israel_brawling_monks.html?source=mypi

I swear you can't make stuff like this up.
Empress Lainie
11-09-2008, 08:40 PM
Thank God for the Jews!!


Were they arguing about whether Jesus was divine?
SilverLycan
11-09-2008, 08:44 PM
It always saddens me to see my brothers fight. They always fight over unreasonable things.

This gave me a chuckle.

But still, my brothers must learn to stop fighting.

V_V
stumbler
11-09-2008, 09:04 PM
I just couldn't hardly believe it. But like I said I love the irony of it all. The Jews having to rush in to break up a brawl between the Christians in one of the most holy sites in Jerusalem.

And no Lanie the brawl was between the Armenian clergymen commemorating the 4th-century discovery of the cross believed to have been used to crucify Jesus, and the Greeks who thought one of their monks should have been in the procession.
trumpet
11-09-2008, 09:35 PM
It sounds like religious bigotry has become like football fans. They'll be fucking chanting and charging next:

Can you hear the trappists sing?
We can't hear a fucking thing!

:excited:
bigbird
11-09-2008, 09:37 PM
"You're not praying any more, you're not prayyyyyyyyyying annnnnymore":excited::excited::excited:
trumpet
11-09-2008, 09:40 PM
:excited:"You're going 'ome in a big white pope-mobile!":excited:
bigbird
11-09-2008, 09:41 PM
"you look like a big girl in your cassocks - oh wait so do we ":)
trumpet
11-09-2008, 09:44 PM
"You'll never beat Jesus!
You'll never beat Jesus!"

(Unless Mel got it right and you happen to be have been jewish around the turn of the first Millenium or so in which case you've probably given him a proper kicking)
bigbird
11-09-2008, 09:49 PM
"We've got more countless millions stashed in our museums than you have "
trumpet
11-09-2008, 09:51 PM
Who''s the wanker in the black?
Who's the wannnn-keerrrrrr in the black?

Oh, it's the vicar.:excited:
SilverLycan
11-09-2008, 09:54 PM
... the brawl was between the Armenian clergymen commemorating the 4th-century discovery of the cross believed to have been used to crucify Jesus, and the Greeks who thought one of their monks should have been in the procession...

I just can't wrap my head around the pettiness of it all. Relics are nice, but I mean, come on. Christ isn't found in old dusty relics, He is found in His people. I find this behavior disgusting.
bigbird
11-09-2008, 10:00 PM
I thought god was found doing the dishes in her semi?
trumpet
11-09-2008, 10:02 PM
I just can't wrap my head around the pettiness of it all. Relics are nice, but I mean, come on. Christ isn't found in old dusty relics, He is found in His people. I find this behavior disgusting.

Hang on: It was over a cross claimed to be the one true cross that was discovered 400 years after it was used?

Folks, it's a fucking fake. Don't sweat it. Let the Armenians have it if they'll pay the postage.