Italy & Tunisia 2005 > Ray's Continuing Journey > Belgrade

This is a decoration on the outside of the church. As usual, you can't take pictures inside. There is a sort of consistency to the Mosques in this regard; not only do they forbid the cameras of the unbelievers, they blow up your odd Buddhas of Bamiyan. Always in pairs. Not only the ACLU but the CIA should take the symmetrical destruction of art as a portent. "There where they burn books, they will burn people in the end," as Heine said. But Theodora went to all the trouble of deposing and flogging John Hylilas, and for what? The iconodules victorious forbid you to take photos of their stupid icons. Intellectual property lawyers take note — it's all happening again.
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