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To: LindyBill who wrote (35117)	3/17/2004 2:59:56 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

It would be a disaster if anything in the Vatican would be destroyed or damaged beyond repair. I think it would be the act that would set the world against the insano-Islamists in a way they would remember. Unfortunately, it might take such an act to wake up the rest of the world to their insane aspirations. It seems that 9/11 was not enough.

To: LindyBill who wrote (35117)	3/17/2004 9:43:06 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793914

Killing this Pope wouldn't be much of an accomplishment. He's a very old man. The Catholic Church has a lot of redundancies built in, so even destroying the Vatican would not destroy the Catholic Church. It would be a loss of a great many beautiful things, and it would be regrettable, but it would accomplish little of value, except to cause Catholics to close ranks against the attackers. Muslims appear to revere Mecca in a way that seems idolatrous to me, especially the activities with the various objects on the ground. Rome, on the other hand, is merely the home of the Catholic Church due to tradition. The loss of the Vatican, and Jerusalem, and Bethlehem, would only be the loss of physical objects, which are by their nature impermanent.