Martin Antonenko
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A culture theft becomes a holiday!
In the year 112 AD, under the reign of Emperor Marcus Ulpius Traianus...
... the construction of the so-called "Pantheon" begins on the former Field of Mars at Rome...:
The building was only completed during the reign of Publius Aelius Hadrianus...
...in the period between 125 and 128.
For more than 1,700 years, the Pantheon had the largest cantilevered dome in the world by internal diameter...
... and was generally considered to be the best-preserved building from Roman antiquity...:
When the building was still intact, the dome must have looked almost overwhelming, because it was covered on the inside with shiny golden bronze sheets...:
But then came the "Christian" church, which, with its immanent cultural imperialism, like poisonous mold, sat on everything that could somehow be exploited and used to its own advantage:
The bronze panels of the dome were commissioned by Pope Urban VII in the 17th century.
... stolen, who had them melted down and processed into cannons for his fortress, the "Castello Sant'Angelo"...:
The guns are still there today, even if hardly anyone knows what material they were once cast from...:
In 1812, there were even serious plans to desecrate the best-preserved ancient building in the world by adding two bell towers...
As has been done in many other places, for example on the remains of the "Villa Jovis" of the ancient emperor Tiberius on the island of Capri...:
Luckily that didn't happen with the Pantheon!
However, what was inevitable came:
On November 1, 610, the Pantheon by Pope Boniface VII.
... was converted - in nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti - into a "Christian" church and dedicated to Mary "the Queen of Martyrs".
The day of this cultural theft - the Church calls it "consecration"! - will henceforth be celebrated every year and gradually become the church festival that gives our German friends in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland a day off today:
The "Feast of All Saints" (lat. Festum Omnium Sanctorum).
May these culture molesters burn in hell for this!
In the year 112 AD, under the reign of Emperor Marcus Ulpius Traianus...
... the construction of the so-called "Pantheon" begins on the former Field of Mars at Rome...:
The building was only completed during the reign of Publius Aelius Hadrianus...
...in the period between 125 and 128.
For more than 1,700 years, the Pantheon had the largest cantilevered dome in the world by internal diameter...
... and was generally considered to be the best-preserved building from Roman antiquity...:
When the building was still intact, the dome must have looked almost overwhelming, because it was covered on the inside with shiny golden bronze sheets...:
But then came the "Christian" church, which, with its immanent cultural imperialism, like poisonous mold, sat on everything that could somehow be exploited and used to its own advantage:
The bronze panels of the dome were commissioned by Pope Urban VII in the 17th century.
... stolen, who had them melted down and processed into cannons for his fortress, the "Castello Sant'Angelo"...:
The guns are still there today, even if hardly anyone knows what material they were once cast from...:
In 1812, there were even serious plans to desecrate the best-preserved ancient building in the world by adding two bell towers...
As has been done in many other places, for example on the remains of the "Villa Jovis" of the ancient emperor Tiberius on the island of Capri...:
Luckily that didn't happen with the Pantheon!
However, what was inevitable came:
On November 1, 610, the Pantheon by Pope Boniface VII.
... was converted - in nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti - into a "Christian" church and dedicated to Mary "the Queen of Martyrs".
The day of this cultural theft - the Church calls it "consecration"! - will henceforth be celebrated every year and gradually become the church festival that gives our German friends in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland a day off today:
The "Feast of All Saints" (lat. Festum Omnium Sanctorum).
May these culture molesters burn in hell for this!
