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Lament for Constantinople † 05/29/21 (Sat) 18:24:13 96bb21 No.855643

568 Years ago today Constantinople fell to the Ottomans. Today, the mother church of Constantinople operates again as a mosque, a living insult to all Christendom.

Pope Innocent III to Baldwin, Count of Flanders and Hainault:

"You took upon yourselves the duty of delivering the Holy Land from the Infidel. You were forbidden under pain of excommunication from attacking any Christian lands, unless they refused you passage or would not help you (and even then you were to do nothing contrary to the wishes of my legate). You had no claims or pretensions to the lands of Greece. You were under the most solemn vows of Our Lord-and yet you have totally disregarded these vows. It was not against the Infidel but against Christians that you drew your sword. It was not Jerusalem that you captured but Constantinople. It was not heavenly riches upon which your minds were set, but earthly ones. But far and above all of this, nothing has been sacred to you-neither age nor sex. In the eyes of the whole world you have abandoned yourselves to debauchery, adultery and prostitution. You have not only violated married women and widows, but even women and virgins whose lives were dedicated to Christ. You have looted not only the treasures of the Emperor and of citizens both rich and poor, but have despoiled the very sanctuaries of God's Church. You have broken into holy places, stolen the sacred objects of altars-even including crucifixes-and you have pillaged innumerable images and relics of the Saints. It is hardly surprising that the Greek Church, beaten down though it is, rejects any obedience to the Apostolic See. It is hardly surprising that it sees in all Latins no more than treachery and the works of the Devil, and regards all of them as curs."

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† 06/02/21 (Wed) 16:08:43 8d3b52 No.855685

Insult? They pray to God in the best possible way. The Orthodox have always been under the protection of Muslims. Because it's right

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† 06/02/21 (Wed) 23:29:38 aed340 No.855690

>>855685

Cool story bro

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† 06/17/21 (Thu) 20:53:35 611e48 No.855863

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>>855685

>Insult? They pray to God in the best possible way. The Orthodox hae always been under the protection of Muslims. Because it's right

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† 06/21/21 (Mon) 01:31:08 cf522b No.855943

>>855685

>Insult? They pray to God in the best possible way.

Mindlessly reciting a garbled Arabic that you do not even understand is not 'prayer'.

Note Lord Jesus' very simple instructions on prayer (Matthew 6:5-7):

"And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is hidden; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathens do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words."

Note how Islamic 'prayer' is the exact opposite of all of this.

>The Orthodox have always been under the protection of Muslims.

>800 years of more or less continuous war and ghazi rapacity

>making a point of seizing any single noteworthy church or holy site, simply for the sake of it

>"protection"

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