In an act of religious extremism a tourist from the US smashed 2 Graeco-Roman statues in the Israel Museum: a head of the goddess #Athena (2nd century CE) and a statue of a #griffin clutching the wheel of fate, symbolising the goddess #Nemesis (210-211 CE). The giffin statue, as evident from published photographs, was broken into pieces. The tourist had targeted the statues because he deemed them “idolatrous” and in opposition to the Torah (Old Testament).
@AimeeMaroux@antiquidons got to love the claim that this was not motivated by religious zeal, but adding defence of "Jerusalem Syndrome", where pilgrims believe they are Biblical figures, because those two statements don't contradict each other at all 😁😋
@AimeeMaroux I don't buy that, and I'm tired of people trying to sell it. An attorney has a responsibility to represent their client, but the pursuit of it shouldn't come at the expense of reason, sense and truth.
To me this is just as bad (and stupid) as the 'Twinkie Defense'. 🙄
@MishaVanMollusq I am hopeful it will be revealed eventually. People associate this kind of destruction with ISIS but all religious extremism breeds hate and destruction.
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