Talk:Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is part of WikiProject Ethiopia, an attempt to co-ordinate articles related to Ethiopia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
B	This article has been rated as B-Class on the Project's quality scale.
High	This article is rated as being of high importance.

	This page is within the scope of WikiProject Oriental Orthodoxy, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles on the Oriental Orthodox Church on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the Project's quality scale. (If you rated the article please give a short summary at comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses.)
	This article has been marked as needing immediate attention.

If they had the ark, the MOSSAD would visit them with a battalion of paratrooper reinforcement and collect it for good. Then the jews would demolish the Rock Mosque in Jerusalem and rebuild the jewish temple to adore the ark there. And there would be a moslim <-> jews+USA world war because of that.

Strange little annonymous post. I love conspiracy theorists like this. So Mossad would send a battalion of paratroopers into one of it's few friendly countries in the area to massacre some monks and carry away an Ark that can only be handled by priests and kept in a Temple, so that they can set it up on the Temple mount in the ruins of the Dome of the Rock and ignite a regional possibly world war. And they would benefit exactly how??? Sendeq

It is rather bizzare. Even if the Ark was recovered, and a new temple built, it's not accurate to say that Jews would be "adoring" the Ark. Except for the high priests, visitors to the temple would not be able to get near the Ark, let alone see it. The Ark isn't even needed for a temple, the Second Temple didn't have the Ark. While destroying the Dome of the Rock would indeed set off a war, the Ark doesn't have anything to do with it. Then there's the whole problem of setting up a new priesthood after a couple thousand years without it.--RLent 20:55, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Hmm. My impression is that the government of Israel would prefer to ignore the entire question, & if pressed on the matter would rather risk insulting Ethiopia by saying that whatever is in this Church is a forgery over any sort of investigation -- by qualified experts or MOSSAD. Why risk lives over an issue when a blind eye works just as well if not better? -- llywrch 19:54, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

What a stupid discussion! Why doesn't someone edit the page itself? E.g. the Amharic name for the church is given as 'the name in the languages of Ethiopia'. What a moronic idea; so the name is in more languages than one? Of course not; it's in one of them, presumably Amharic, but I hope someone can check on that, if not me.

[edit] Non-Kohanim..

There are more than enough Cohens in the world, which according to this article can access the Ark. So, why haven't they let in a Cohen? --nlitement ^[talk] 18:43, 23 May 2008 (UTC)