Beefin' in Bethlehem

Here's something I bet most people did not know..... it is routine for the priest running the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem to have scuffles during their yearly Christmas clean up of the church.

This year was no different!

From Breitbart --

Seven people were injured on Thursday when Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests came to blows in a dispute over how to clean the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

Following the Christmas celebrations, Greek Orthodox priests set up ladders to clean the walls and ceilings of their part of the church, which is built over the site where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born.

But the ladders encroached on space controlled by Armenian priests, according to photographers who said angry words ensued and blows quickly followed.

For a quarter of an hour bearded and robed priests laid into each other with fists, brooms and iron rods while the photographers who had come to take pictures of the annual cleaning ceremony recorded the whole event. More.... (Here is the video)

Priests fighting in church?!? Oh boy these guys are going to be in BIG trouble! I wonder who they will give their confession too.

Even though these priests are acting like little children it does go to show the difference between Christianity and Islam.

Had this "offense" been at a mosque or between muslims - we would be reading about how thousands of people took to the streets, burning tires, cars and killing innocent people.

Of course to make any turban spinning muslim story complete you need explosions! So there would have to be a suicide bomber, an explosive laden car that killed more innocent people and bombing of each other mosques.

And to top everything off guess who broke up the fight? Palestinian policemen!