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по внутренней рассылке пришёл очередной петиционный спам (в смысле, письмо с просьбой подписаться под некой петицией).
Petition to Restore Hagia Sophia as a Church.


We need a minimum of 1.000.000 signatures in order to force the
European
Union to consider this proposal seriously and debate it immediately as
one
of the conditions to allow Turkey to be admitted as a new member of the
EU.

As you know, Turkey is doing everything it can today to convince the
European Union that it is a worthy country to join it. If you agree
with us
that Turkey should not be admitted to the EU before restoring justice
to
Hagia Sophia, please go to http://www.hagiasophiablog.com/mainpage.html

and
send us your message.
We would be grateful if you could also tell your friends about this
site
and its purpose and forward the letter to your relatives and friends.

Andrew S. Mousalimas



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If you believe in the just case that Hagia Sophia should be restored to
its
proper religious role as a church, for which it was built in the first
place, then we ask you to support our petition to the EU Parliament
that
Turkey should not be admitted as a member of the European Community
until
it
restores Hagia Sophia to its original purpose as a church and not a
museum.

We need a minimum of 1.000.000 signatures in order to force the
European
Union to consider this proposal seriously and debate it immediately as
one
of the conditions to allow Turkey to be admitted as a new member of the
EU.

As you know, Turkey is doing everything it can today to convince the
European Union that it is a worthy country to join it. If you agree
with us
that Turkey should not be admitted to the EU before restoring justice
to
Hagia Sophia, please click on "Your Signature" and send us your
message.

We would be grateful if you could also tell your friends about this
site
and
its purpose.

Angeliki Papagika and partners

Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia is not a public building that changed ownership with the
conquest of a war. Hagia Sophia is a place of god, Christendom's
grandest
place of worship for over 900 years, and arguably the most perfect and
beautiful church that has been erected by any Christian people. The
splendour of its overall effect, its paradise-like beauty and
architectural brilliance were often comprehensible only in terms of
repeated
divine intervention.

The magnificence, spirituality and prestige of the Great Church led to
its
being appropriated as an imperial and religious symbol by the Ottoman
sultans. The church of Christ was possessed and converted into a
mosque,
until it was decreed a museum. During this long time, it has been
subjected
to more than its fair share of abuse and denigration.

Hagia Sophia, an essential element of Christianity, a second Jerusalem,
the
most revolutionary and daring church conceived in Christendom, has been
turned into a museum considerably impaired by the loss of all its
Christian
furnishings and much of its original setting and atmosphere. At present
it
is part of an increasingly elaborate area of monuments, museums, and
rug
and
souvenir shops. The Great Church, transformed into a monument/museum
without
life The conquest of war does not and cannot change its spiritual
nature
into a civil-cultural-secular institution. For as long as the injustice

done
to the soul of Hagia Sophia is ignored and forgotten Christianity
cannot be
whole. Hagia Sophia s reason for existing is vitally important to
restoring
religious integrity.

It is a disgrace and disrespect to a religion and God when holy places
are
unwillingly turned purely into tourist attractions. How would the
Muslims
feel if one of their holiest places was turned into a museum for
tourists
by
a conquering power?

With its conversion into a museum in 1934, Hagia Sophia was frozen in
some
past age, vaguely Byzantine. Directed by the then historicist paradigm
that
saw the past as unchanging, Hagia Sophia was also understood through
the
aesthetic of the great museum, that is, aloof and imposing. Both traits

were
useful to a Turkish government that wanted to break with the Ottoman
era
that lasted until after World War I. The church of Heavenly Wisdom
became
thus what the official Turkish act of secularisation called a unique
architectural monument of art and hence was valued more for its age,
art
and historical value than for its practical and religious use.

просят европарламент сделать одним из обязательных условий для вхождения Турции в ЕС передачу Софии церкви и устройство там храма. пишут, что статус музея унижает сей божий дом.
хотят миллион подписей собрать.

бред, разумеется (кто будет смотреть на эти сетевые подписи, будь их даже десять миллионов?), но опасный бред. мне, разумеется, не нравится, что турки сделали с Византией (как-то особенно она мне симпатична), но зачем сейчас их унижать и давать пищу радикалам?
я бы ещё понял эту петицию, если бы в Софии до сих пор мечеть была.

Comments

я объясню

[slonick.livejournal.com]

извини, что залез в жж, но коммент ты удалил. это был коммент относительно 2015 года. дело в том, что у моего компа однажды села батарейка и часы с датой все время сбивались. а жж запрещает постить задним числом. поэтому, мой жж живет в будущем вынужденно. пожалуйста, не удаляй в следующий раз. с уважением, руслан.

Re: я объясню

[rollon.livejournal.com]

во-первых, для объяснений есть специальный пост в сообществе, не обязательно для этого комментировать длиннющий пост в моём жж.
во-вторых, системные часы можно перевести. из-за таких постов в сообществе не работает календарь, так что удалять я вынужден.

Re: я объясню

[(Anonymous)]

боже, какой мудак