Storm over Italy crucifix ruling
Geschrieben von Andreas am 27. Oktober 2003 00:21:42:
Als Antwort auf: NACHRICHTEN (27.10.) (owT) geschrieben von Johannes am 27. Oktober 2003 00:01:34:
A controversy has erupted in Italy over a court ruling ordering a state kindergarten to remove crucifixes from its classrooms.
A judge in the central town of L'Aquila upheld a complaint by an Italian Muslim leader, Adel Smith.mehr dazu: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3215445.stm
.In AD 391, the Roman senator Symmachus protested vehemently against the order to remove the pagan Altar of Victory from the Senate building. It had stood there since the days of the emperor Augustus. However, his protests were brushed aside and the traditional Roman religion continued to be marginalised by the new religion of Christianity--which Pliny the Younger had once described as a 'degenerate sort of cult'.