Post by 1greatamerican on Aug 22, 2010 16:05:39 GMT -5
What about St. Nicholas?
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Posted: August 20, 2010
1:00 am Eastern
By Judson Phillips
© 2010
Barrack Obama has come out in favor of the Ground Zero mosque. There is no great shock there. His sympathies are more with the Islamists than they are with Americans.
I am not going to rehash a lot of the other arguments about this mosque. There is another story to be told here, a story that has not gotten much traction in the media.
In 1916, Greek immigrants, many of them sailors, in the New York area built a Greek Orthodox Church. This four-story church, named after St. Nicholas, the Orthodox patron saint of sailors, became a fixture in downtown New York. St. Nicholas became a place of refuge for the Greek Orthodox community as well as others, who would stop in, if even for a little while, to enjoy the peace and beauty of the Byzantine church.
In 1975, the World Trade Center went up, and amazingly enough, the developers were able to work around St. Nicholas Church. The Twin Towers dominated the New York skyline, and in their shadow remained the little four-story church.
If you do an Internet search for "St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, New York City, September 11," you will find an amazing picture. The photo is black and white, shot by Eric O'Connell of the New York Times. In the background, you can see the burning, mortally wounded Twin Towers. In the foreground is the diminutive St. Nicholas Church. Minutes after that photo was taken, the towers would come down, and the church would be destroyed. If you look carefully at the photo, you will see something the jihadists hated, something I do not believe Barrack Obama particularly likes. You see, as St. Nicholas was destroyed on that terrible Tuesday, in its last minutes, the Stars and Strips still flew.
Immediately after the attacks, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese and New York Gov. George Pataki both vowed that St. Nicholas would be rebuilt. That was nine years ago. Hurdle after hurdle has been brought up that has kept St. Nicholas from rebuilding. The parishioners of St. Nicholas are patriotic Americans who love their country. While repeated obstacles are thrown in the way of rebuilding St. Nicholas, the government of New York City moves heaven and earth to make it possible for a victory mosque to be built for those who celebrated the attack on this country.
What is wrong with this picture?
Why is Mayor Bloomberg so anxious to build this mosque, which will probably be filled with people who hate America, and yet this tiny church, which flew the American flag right to the end, cannot be rebuilt? Someone please explain this to me. I simply don't get it.
And the next time someone comments favorably about that mosque, ask them this question. If the Islamists who hate America get to build a mosque to celebrate that attack, why cannot this simple little Greek Orthodox Church be rebuilt?
What's your opinion?
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Posted: August 20, 2010
1:00 am Eastern
By Judson Phillips
© 2010
Barrack Obama has come out in favor of the Ground Zero mosque. There is no great shock there. His sympathies are more with the Islamists than they are with Americans.
I am not going to rehash a lot of the other arguments about this mosque. There is another story to be told here, a story that has not gotten much traction in the media.
In 1916, Greek immigrants, many of them sailors, in the New York area built a Greek Orthodox Church. This four-story church, named after St. Nicholas, the Orthodox patron saint of sailors, became a fixture in downtown New York. St. Nicholas became a place of refuge for the Greek Orthodox community as well as others, who would stop in, if even for a little while, to enjoy the peace and beauty of the Byzantine church.
In 1975, the World Trade Center went up, and amazingly enough, the developers were able to work around St. Nicholas Church. The Twin Towers dominated the New York skyline, and in their shadow remained the little four-story church.
If you do an Internet search for "St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, New York City, September 11," you will find an amazing picture. The photo is black and white, shot by Eric O'Connell of the New York Times. In the background, you can see the burning, mortally wounded Twin Towers. In the foreground is the diminutive St. Nicholas Church. Minutes after that photo was taken, the towers would come down, and the church would be destroyed. If you look carefully at the photo, you will see something the jihadists hated, something I do not believe Barrack Obama particularly likes. You see, as St. Nicholas was destroyed on that terrible Tuesday, in its last minutes, the Stars and Strips still flew.
Immediately after the attacks, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese and New York Gov. George Pataki both vowed that St. Nicholas would be rebuilt. That was nine years ago. Hurdle after hurdle has been brought up that has kept St. Nicholas from rebuilding. The parishioners of St. Nicholas are patriotic Americans who love their country. While repeated obstacles are thrown in the way of rebuilding St. Nicholas, the government of New York City moves heaven and earth to make it possible for a victory mosque to be built for those who celebrated the attack on this country.
What is wrong with this picture?
Why is Mayor Bloomberg so anxious to build this mosque, which will probably be filled with people who hate America, and yet this tiny church, which flew the American flag right to the end, cannot be rebuilt? Someone please explain this to me. I simply don't get it.
And the next time someone comments favorably about that mosque, ask them this question. If the Islamists who hate America get to build a mosque to celebrate that attack, why cannot this simple little Greek Orthodox Church be rebuilt?
What's your opinion?