Toddsterpatriot
Diamond Member
Nope, but Rome is the wellspring for Christian expansion in Western Europe; it is the Mothership from which all Western Christianity is derived, by varying degrees of separation.
Just as Constantinople was (is), as the wellspring for Christian expansion in parts of Eastern Europe and Asia Minor and the Russias.
And none of this distracts me from the idea that the Muslims already have two (2) Holy Cities... Mecca and Medinah... and that the Jews, as the 'originators' of all of the Faiths of the Book... are entitled to one of their own... again... after all that waiting and suffering.
The Muslims already have two. They shouldn't begrudge the Jews their old one back. Demanding three is just greedy.
Why can't Jews, Muslims, and Christians SHARE a city that is holy to all three faiths?
Muslims don't play well with others.