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    See Christian Priests Attack One Another With Brooms at Jesus’ Suspected Birthplace

    Tis the season for Christian leaders to engage in an intense and violent battle inside of the Church of the Nativity (believed to be Jesus’ birthplace) in Bethlehem.

    A rip-roar fight apparently broke out between up to 100 Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic priests and monks as they were cleaning the church in preparation for Orthodox Christmas celebrations coming in early January.

    The clergy did everything but “turn the other cheek,” as they swung brooms and attacked one another in what the USA Today called a “frenzied turf battle.” The situation got so out of control that Palestinian police had to come in and break the fighting up.

    Here’s some footage:

    The Telegraph has more:

    Riot police were forced to restore order inside the basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem after rival groups of Orthodox and Armenian clerics clashed in a dispute over the boundaries of their respective jurisdictions inside the church. [...]

    Witnesses said the former Palestinian Minister of Tourism and Head of the Palestinian forces in the West Bank town were slightly injured during the incident.

    Administration of the church is shared by Catholic, Orthodox, and Armenian Apostolic clerics and the relationships among the different groups have frequently been contentious with similar scuffles having broken out in previous years.

    (H/T: USA Today)

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    • Scary Hat  •  5 mths ago
      I doubt any of them have a true understanding of the bible.
      • StarMom 5 mths ago
        The bible is so full of contradictions and impossibilities, there is no way to have a true understanding of it. Anyone basing their life on it is delusional.
      • LAUGHING at Republicans 4 mths ago
        Nobody has a true understanding of the bible, just a collection of confusion
    • Michael  •  Sioux Falls, South Dakota  •  5 mths ago
      You know things are messed up when the Palestinians are breaking up riots.
      • maryjane 5 mths ago
        now that's funny!!!
      • Ralph D 5 mths ago
        Hilarious !
      • jennifer s 4 mths ago
        lol. Boy isn't that the truth. Then again, Palestinians "peace makers?" Maybe thisis a sign things will be getting better??? lol
    • eggman  •  Dallas, Texas  •  5 mths ago
      Is there any religion that has any sanity left?
      • tim 5 mths ago
        religion has NEVER had anything that resembles sanity
      • jadenhunter 5 mths ago
        Paganism comes close, but we do still have are fringe element.
      • jadenhunter 5 mths ago
        opps, I mint "our fringe element". Gotta slow down and smell the typos in life :)
    • NilaK  •  Irvine, California  •  5 mths ago
      Such spiritual people!!!!!!!!!
    • Stephanie  •  Fort Wayne, Indiana  •  5 mths ago
      The term "Christian" literlly means"to be like Christ". These men were certainly not living out the Christian example the way they should be.
      • Wayne 4 mths ago
        Christ used a whip on the money changers on the Temple grounds, by their religious standards they the money changers were not breaking the law. That is man's law. Fighting on holy ground is just silly in the first place.
    • average citizen  •  Chicago, Illinois  •  5 mths ago
      these guys must not be disciples of Jesus.... Joh 13:33 Little children, I shall be with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you cannot come,' so now I say to you.
      Joh 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
      Joh 13:35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."
      • ObservingReader 5 mths ago
        Well stated Average Citizen.
      • O' Mighty Smiter 5 mths ago
        Looks like I forgot to add an 11th commandment: Thou shalt not smack your neighbor with cleaning instruments (but if you want to have sex with a Congressional staffer and then divorce your wife, well, I'll look the other way).
      • Robin 5 mths ago
        Jesus used ropes and turned over tables and ran everybody out of the temple when people were being idiots with no respect and selling stuff instead of it being a house of prayer. So, suck it up.
    • Auntie Social  •  5 mths ago
      Brooms? what are they gonna do, clean up that one-horse town?
    • eggman  •  Dallas, Texas  •  5 mths ago
      The devil is loose in Georgia town. He's playing his fiddle hot.
    • Alex  •  5 mths ago
      Say what you want about this silliness... but if the world settled their differences with broomsticks we would be 1,000,000 times better off than we are today.
    • Andy W  •  Liberty, New York  •  4 mths ago
      and Jesus looks down from heaven and wonders why any of these people even pretend to have faith in him. If Jesus were there....would he take part in this ridiculous nonsense. They should all be forbidden from entering this place ever again.
    • Cold War  •  Oneals, California  •  5 mths ago
      John 13:5

      By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

      I strongly believe that the words spoken in The Book of John, Chapter 11, verse 35 apply here. Read it for yourselves.
    • OCman  •  5 mths ago
      The church is in the heart, not the building or the ceremonies. Dishes clean on the outside, filthy on the inside. Hmmm. Where have I read that?
    • O' Mighty Smiter  •  Lusaka, Zambia  •  5 mths ago
      One thing you can say about religion - it makes for good entertainment. Fools.
    • Mamai  •  4 mths ago
      The clergymen were not fighting with the brooms--they were playing a game of curling!
    • Work1ders  •  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania  •  5 mths ago
      If Jesus were here, he'd take a strap to all of them! Fighting inside the church? Sounds like they're revamping the east coast/west coast feud for territory.
    • Mr. Muligan  •  5 mths ago
      So much violence in the name of Christ. So, so tragic. If one is truly spiritual, then they have confidence and are non-violent. This type of behavior destroys faith and gives it a bad name.
    • Zoran  •  5 mths ago
      Inevitably there'll be Christians coming to this board claiming those brawlers are not true Christians...
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Birmingham, Alabama  •  5 mths ago
      What a horrible witness for Christ!!
    • John C  •  Alpharetta, Georgia  •  4 mths ago
      The sad reality is that the biggest problem faced by Christianity is - Christians. We praise the Lord with our mouths and betray him with our actions. And we wonder why non-believers accuse us of hypocrisy. This is frankly embarrassing, or at least should be, to all decent Christians around the world.
    • adam  •  5 mths ago
      HEY the witches want ALL their brooms back by halloween -- OK !!!
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