Priests brawl at Bethlehem birthplace of Jesus Seven people were injured on Thursday when Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests came to blows in a dispute over how to clean the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Following the Christmas celebrations, Greek Orthodox priests set up ladders to clean the walls and ceilings of their part of the church, which is built over the site where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born. But the ladders encroached on space controlled by Armenian priests, according to photographers who said angry words ensued and blows quickly followed. For a quarter of an hour bearded and robed priests laid into each other with fists, brooms and iron rods while the photographers who had come to take pictures of the annual cleaning ceremony recorded the whole event. A dozen unarmed Palestinian policemen were sent to try to separate the priests, but two of them were also injured in the unholy melee. "As usual the cleaning of the church afer Christmas is a cause of problems," Bethlehem Mayor Victor Batarseh told AFP, adding that he has offered to help ease tensions. "For the two years that I have been here everything went more or less calmly," he said. "It's all finished now." The Church of the Nativity, like the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City, is shared by various branches of Christianity, each of which controls and jealously guards a part of the holy site. The Church of the Nativity is built on the site where Christians believe Jesus was born in a stable more than 2,000 years ago after Mary and Joseph were turned away by an inn. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071227133441.5ue4z6fy&show_article=1
If this happened at a mosque the carnage would have already begun with assasinations and suicide bombers.
The point is is that John is a paranoied man who thinks that you are attacking Christianity. Speaking of points z10...What is the point of this thread??? This is one of the holiest Christian places and it is known to be a point of conflict between all of the Eastern Christian schools. No big deal in my opinion!!!
The point actually harps back to the other thread comparing muslim murderers to christian murderers. The point being if a similiar situation had occured at a mosque the suicide bombings and reprisals would have already begun. Comparing Christian and Muslim behaviour that's all.