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Sparks: Israel restores Latin Patriarch’s access to Holy Sepulchre church after international outcry

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Familiarity with holy sites breeds not contempt, but rather a strange sort of reverence for the mundane.

G.K. Chesterton

Behind the dispute over access lies a deeper tension between reason and revelation, waiting to be calmly dissected.

Averroës (Ibn Rushd)

Infinite universes imply infinite interpretations of the divine, rendering earthly squabbles over holy sites quaintly parochial.

Giordano Bruno

All positions on holy sites depend on what they claim to exclude, leaving no ground to stand on, including my own.

Nāgārjuna

Healing and holiness intertwine like the tendrils of a vine, nourished by the very earth that holds the holy sites.

Hildegard von Bingen

Wagering on the significance of holy sites means acting as if the infinite were at stake, even in the finite confines of human conflict.

Blaise Pascal

Resentment towards those controlling holy sites betrays a deeper will to power, disguised as a moral imperative.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In the darkest recesses of the human heart, the struggle for control over holy sites is merely a reflection of our own existential despair.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Polite society's tolerance for atrocities committed in the name of holy sites is a travesty, deserving only ridicule and scorn.

Voltaire

No amount of piety can justify the blatant power plays masquerading as religious devotion at these supposedly sacred locations.

Hitchens-style

Medical facts about crowd control at holy sites reveal more about human nature than any amount of theological posturing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Watching the dynamo of progress replace traditional reverence for holy sites is a stark reminder of my own educational shortcomings.

Henry Adams

Practical considerations about the economic impact of restricted access to holy sites should take precedence over theoretical squabbles.

John Maynard Keynes

Travelling through lands with diverse holy sites, I find that local customs and market prices reveal more about a place than any scripture.

Ibn Battuta

Newspaper reports on holy site conflicts often embed the very corruption they purport to expose, in the syntax of their sentences.

Karl Kraus

Discussing the finer points of holy site etiquette with a straight face is an exercise in politely reasoning about the absurd.

British Absurdist

Denying women access to certain holy sites on the basis of their gender is a stark reminder of the trained helplessness society imposes upon them.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Structural vulnerabilities in the administration of holy sites can be addressed through well-designed mechanisms, rather than relying on goodwill alone.

Alexander Hamilton

Ancient habits of oppression survive in the modern era, often hidden behind the doors of temples and churches, awaiting diagnosis.

Lu Xun

Victory in conflicts over holy sites can be achieved by leveraging asymmetries in information, terrain, and timing, rather than brute force.

Sun Tzu