What will come next, Parthenon maybe?

The Roman August at the time of Tetrarchy Galerius built a temple dedicated to Zeus in Thessaloniki Greece in 311 CE. After a century or more this temple was turned to a Christian Church as it was the policy of the Christian Emperors and especially of Justinian. It is listed as World Monument by UNESCO. The Central Council of Archaeologists, which is under the authority of the Ministry of Civilisation and Sports, decided that a cross should be placed, because it was used as a Church for many centuries. So was Parthenon of Akropolis of Athens by the way, should  a restoration of Parthenon as the Church of Panagia Athiniotissa be awaited? In 1995 a mob of priests and Christian believers stopped a concert by force, destroyed a piano of a musician called Sakis Papadimitriou, because they wanted to turn the monument into a Church. Now the radical left, mayor and ministry have granted the Christian Church a mass once a month. That for the beginning.



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The Church pays nothing and does nothing and they ...

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A Greek charity for orphan children must pay till the end of this year 65 thousand Euros. The Church because of it's so called charities, never pays a cent and there are always scandals coming up, the last one being about a sexual abuse. The Church is so rich, if it would pay taxes, that would be a great help.

Christian Jihad: Women that murder gays go to paradise!

This is a Christian Greek Orthodox monk living for more than 55 years on the 'Holy Mountain'. About the influence of monks in Greece, there is the incindent with the satirical site Elder Pastitsios. He is against democracy, in favour of the nazi party 'Golden Dawn', he makes the accusation that the Gospel 'John' makes in 8:44 and his last sentence is that women who kill gays go to paradise.

In which part of the world may people act, like Greek bishop do?

Recently a Greek actor died and I don't know if it was known while he lived, he was a pair with another male actor. I don't know any actors, so I don't know any gossip. Parallel to this the Greek government is obliged to recognise contracts signed between homosexual pairs. So the actor alive tried to influence the proceedings to go one way, an opposing conservative political advisor, there were some reactions, until a Metropolit chose to intervene. Metropolit of Dimitsana and Aigialeia, Ambrosios Lenis.
He tried to find the worst insults to characterise people, who defend human rights. The advisor made a remark on his facebook page and everybody read it. The same people don't say anything against the archpriest. A representative of the or a community of homosexuals said they were going to sue him; nothing else was said by anyone.
The funny thing is that he said he has sent to the left wing government a book, he says it is profound, about Ancient Greece. The true Christians don't read ancient Greek books, unless they are quoted in a Christian text. The book he has sent is written by an author, who writes about all sorts of conspiracy theories including aliens, supernatural beings and devils, using all kind of forgeries that have existed and interpreting real texts in the most absurd way.
Christians and Marxists use the same trick. They quote ancient Greek texts their very own way, so that they fit to their teaching and so they try to mislead the opponent.

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What does it tell about the majority of the Europeans and about lobbies?

A Greek Bishop’s Anti-Semitic Tirade

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A Greek Bishop’s Anti-Semitic Tirade
By Robert Mackey December 22, 2010 1:30 pm December 22, 2010 1:30 pm
Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus.

Updated | 7:19 p.m. Leaders of Greece’s small Jewish community objected on Wednesday to televised remarks by a Greek Orthodox bishop who blamed the country’s financial problems on a conspiracy of Jewish bankers and claimed that the Holocaust was orchestrated by Zionists.

The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece complained to church authorities about the anti-Semitic remarks made by the Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus during an interview on Greek television on Monday, according to a statement (in Greek) on the group’s Web site.*

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that the bishop “said that there is a conspiracy to enslave Greece and Christian Orthodoxy. He also accused international Zionism of trying to destroy the family unit by promoting one-parent families and same-sex marriages.”

According to the news agency, when the bishop was then asked, “Why do you disagree with Hitler’s policies? If they are doing all this, wasn’t he right in burning them?” he replied: “Adolf Hitler was an instrument of world Zionism and was financed from the renowned Rothschild family with the sole purpose of convincing the Jews to leave the shores of Europe and go to Israel to establish the new Empire.” He added that Jewish bankers like “Rockefeller, Rothschild and Soros control the international banking system that controls globalization.”

Greece’s Jewish community is ancient, but only about 10,000 Greek Jews survived the Holocaust.

The president of the European Jewish Congress, Moshe Kantor, called for the bishop to be fired in a statement sent to reporters on Wednesday. He added: “It is completely unacceptable that someone senior in a mainstream European religious denomination can make such repulsive and hate-filled claims.”

The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants sent this statement to The Lede:

    Holocaust survivors are aghast at the hate-filled remarks of Metropolitan Seraphim and call on the Greek Orthodox hierarchy to remove him from his position. We also demand that the Greek government prosecute him under its laws against incitement to hatred. Greece itself, which suffered grievously under Nazi occupation, is slandered by Metropolitan Seraphim’s bigotry. His remarks constitute a brutal assault on the memory of all Nazi victims, Jew and non-Jew.

Earlier this year, the bishop wrote to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II to demand that Elton John be stripped of his knighthood for telling Parade magazine, “Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man.” The bishop also complained to Britain’s ambassador to Greece about the singer’s “unacceptable and absurd” comment, which, he said, had caused “deep pain and bitterness.”

*Thanks to the reader who sent us a link to video of the complete interview with the bishop from Mega TV in Greece. Even non-speakers of Greek can clearly see the shock on the face of the television host (at about 13 minutes into the interview) when the bishop explained his theory of Zionist complicity in Adolf Hitler’s extermination of the Jews.

Zoroastrian faith returns to Kurdistan in response to ISIS violence

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Zoroastrian faith returns to Kurdistan in response to ISIS violence
By Judit Neurink 2/6/2015


SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region — After over a millennium, the Zoroastrian faith is returning to its original habitat. The Ministry of Religion in the Iraqi Kurdistan capital Erbil has registered the religion, locally known as Zardashti, and suggested to the Kurdish government the ancient faith should be given its own directorate general and its believers be allowed to build new temples.

“Now it’s time,” says Nouri Sharif, one of the initiators of the movement that established a Zoroastrian organization in Europe in 2006 and in March announced in Erbil its official return to Kurdistan. In April, a Supreme Council of Zoroastrians in Kurdistan was founded.

Already active in Iran and India, the movement claims to have some 100,000 followers in Iraqi Kurdistan. This is mainly a reaction to the violence committed by the Islamic State, according to Sharif during an interview in a café in Kurdistan’s second city Sulaimani.

“People see something is imposed on them. They have witnessed suffering from another belief. Now it is the time for our destiny, because we are exhausted. We haven’t seen any good deeds from Daesh, it only gives us death and violence,” he said using Daesh, the Arabic acronym for ISIS.

Zoroastrians follow Zoroaster, also known as Zarathustra or locally as Zardasht, who probably lived in the 6th century BC. He was not a prophet like those known in Islam and Christianity, Sharif stressed.

“He was not sent by God as his representative. He was contemplating existence and the universe. Zardasht was a human being full of wisdom. For me he is a prophet, but he brings a philosophy he found himself,” he said. 

He pointed to the little green book in front of him on the table. “This book is a summary of his thoughts. A hundred questions that he raised on existence, religion, God and the universe. It’s not God’s word, but that of humans,” Sharif continued.

Sharif returned five years ago to Sulaimani from Germany to start work on bringing back the religion to Kurdistan, and printed a selection of thoughts to be used for this task. They are taken from the main book of the faith, Avesta.

“Zardasht was one of the first to have called for worshipping one god, the Ahura Mazda… creator of existence,” he said.

An important aspect for attracting people to the faith is the fact that its founder was a Kurd. Not a lot is known about him, Sharif said, apart from that he was born in Urmia (now Iran) and died aged 77 in a fight. “During his life there was opposition,” Sharif said. “Later we were conquered by Alexander the Great, but we regrouped after that, until the total Islamic conquest.”

Already the Zoroastrians have centers in India and in Kerman in Iran.

“We plan to open a third one in Sulaimani. Seminars were held in different towns across Kurdistan, where many people participated,” Sharif said. “Amongst Kurds there is a great level of enthusiasm to go back to the roots; from various levels in the community; professors, politicians and normal people. Hundreds of thousands are interested and this is increasing.”

Sharif said councils have been established in the big cities, but his group is waiting for the licensing process to finish so it can open a center for people to visit.

Temples will be opened too, or in the vocabulary of the faith “attashga,” which means fire house, as fire is considered holy.

“They should be opened on the original locations, like in Darbandighan, Shaklawa, Soran, Chami Rezan, Qishqapan—the king that was buried there was a Zardashti,” Sharif claimed. “We have history to guide us, and will renovate old places.”

But for the moment the group is focused on culture and heritage. “We don’t want to start with the commitments of the religion, binding people to a certain number of prayers per day,” he said.

Even though reviving this pre-Islamic religion and convincing people to leave Islam might enrage Muslims who consider this to be prohibited, Sharif and his group have decided to work out in the open.

“Kurdistan has passed the era of secret practice. We follow the rules and legislations. If we are supported by law, hopefully it will protect us. All the religions have the right to call for worship,” he said.

Even so he knows it could be dangerous.

“We have made our decision, and this cause demands sacrifices. They can only kill and commit violence,” Sharif said referring to Muslim radicals like ISIS. “They could bring arguments, but they do not have the wisdom, that’s why they resort to killing. We are not afraid of them. Their religion is backward.”

Sharif expects that even though the vast majority of Kurds are Muslim, they can live together in peace. “We believe in peaceful coexistence. There is no violence in the origin of our culture. This is another wisdom by Zardasht, who says: ‘I will not draw my sword in troubled times, but light a candle.’”