The destruction of pagan idols and sanctuaries is nothing that any Catholic should shed a tear over.

The destruction of the Mosque of Jonas is another matter, as it was the site of a former church and it contained the relics of the Prophet Jonas. The destruction of the relics of a venerable Hebrew Patriarch is gravely sacreligious - even to Mohammedans. This, of course, begs the question - why did ISIS - ostensibly a gang of Sunni Moslems - destroy a Sunni Moslem shrine?

And still not a hair on an Israeli head has yet been harmed by ISIS... Hmm...

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The destruction of pagan idols and sanctuaries is nothing that any Catholic should shed a tear over.

The destruction of the Mosque of Jonas is another matter, as it was the site of a former church and it contained the relics of the Prophet Jonas. The destruction of the relics of a venerable Hebrew Patriarch is gravely sacreligious - even to Mohammedans. This, of course, begs the question - why did ISIS - ostensibly a gang of Sunni Moslems - destroy a Sunni Moslem shrine?

And still not a hair on an Israeli head has yet been harmed by ISIS... Hmm...

yet

Well, we're awfully far along now, aren't we my anonymous, monosyllabic  Zionist disputant?

Doesn't simple common sense tell you - aided by reputable sources in the Russian government confirming Mossad's involvement in ISIS - that a "Sunni Moslem" group that spends all its efforts killing Christians, and Moslems, including other Sunni Moslems, and drwing ire and hatred from their alleged fellow Sunnis by destroying a Sunni Mosque, but still, so many years into their advent, have yet to harm a single Jєω - might just not be what the MSM wants us to believe it is?

They're a proxy group, created to deal with Iran on Israel's behalf, and to milk ever more irrational, unthinking, and utterly unchristian "support for Israel" from foolish Christian Zionist stooges like you.

"I'd take a strongly negative reaction if, say, a band of ruffians demolished the Pantheon or what's left of the Colosseum.

Artifacts of ancient civilizations, be they pagan or not, are a part of a past that is long gone and if the ISIS ruffians can do this to Nimrud and other places do you think they'd, say, spare St. Peter's Basilica?"

This was my post; I wasn't aware that default was to make an anonymous post.

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I'd take a strongly negative reaction if, say, a band of ruffians demolished the Pantheon or what's left of the Colosseum.

Artifacts of ancient civilizations, be they pagan or not, are a part of a past that is long gone and if the ISIS ruffians can do this to Nimrud and other places do you think they'd, say, spare St. Peter's Basilica?

Do the words hasbara and sayanim strike a chord with you, Estoc (formerly anonymous OP)? They fit you to a T.

Ask any teenage boy on the streets of Hong Kong (or pick some other member of roughly three-quarters of the world's population virtually at random) what ISIS is, and he'll reply, "It's a phony terrorist organization, assembled by the Mossad and funded out of the CIA's black-ops budget, whose purpose is to advance international Jєωry's aims."

I hope for your sake that you are at least getting a few bucks for carrying our enemies' water.

Yes. And let us not forget that these black ops are funded by the poppy and heroin traffic that flows out of Afghanistan and the cocaine traffic flowing from South America.

I'd take a strongly negative reaction if, say, a band of ruffians demolished the Pantheon or what's left of the Colosseum.

So would I - The Pantheon is a Catholic church, and the Colosseum was sanctified by the blood of the martyrs.

Artifacts of ancient civilizations, be they pagan or not, are a part of a past that is long gone and if the ISIS ruffians can do this to Nimrud and other places do you think they'd, say, spare St. Peter's Basilica?

From the scholarly perspective of an historian (which you are either speaking from - or hiding behind), the loss of an ancient pagan sanctuary is keenly felt. From the perspective of a Catholic, it is nothing at all but the tearing down of a den of idolatry, which destruction saints like Francis Xavier encouraged and commended.

As to ISIS "ruffians" attacking St. Peter's - I wouldn't count on it. They're doing just what they were designed to do, just where they were told to do it. The Tribe that funds and trains and owns ISIS needs hardly destroy Vatican City. They've been occupying it for more than half a century.