We almost got banned in Greece!?

[Anonymous]

Well, you may think they were in the churches care for 1000 years, but the most damage done to ancient monuments in greece was done by the christians........ Then the Ottomans........ :?

Well, the modern Greek gov't is the only western govt to have defeated communism...... something to think about!

Freedom of religion extends to islam too...

Ancient monuments have been damaged by all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons. What figures exist to demonstrate that any one group did more damage to a particular culture's heritage than another? If Christians did great damage to Ancient Greek statues, they, like the Turks, also preserved many buildings by re-cycling them as temples of their own faith. When Christians smashed the noses off statues, they did it, in their own view, in the best interests of their fellow-Greeks, to save them from the demonic influences of the Pagan gods. Alexander's pagan Greeks, by contrast, destroyed Persepolis apparently as a simple act of vandalism. I wouldn't allow that to cloud my view of their achievements.

Actually, the British Government defeated communism in Malaya, in the 1950s.