German Sharia Police

There is the article from BBC and I went further to the German site of the magazine 'Der Spiegel' to read some more. It reads that the instigator wasn't fully acquitted. He should have enrolled the demonstration and another court had to decide about it. The group was acquitted, because neither did they look like a militant group nor did they have an intimidating appearance. So probably next time they want to play police of some kind, they have to announce it formally, enroll it to the authorities, figure out the starting point, the route and the finish goal, the authorities have to consent, be guarded by real policemen and then they can demostrate what is bothering them anyway they please.
I don't know if the people responsible for this, have such a great sense of humour, the prosecutors who lodged an appeal don't seem to have the same taste of humour.

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Yule the Pagan celebration of Winter Solstice

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The Pagan celebration of Winter Solstice (also known as Yule) is one of the oldest winter celebrations in the world.

Ancient people were hunters and spent most of their time outdoors. The seasons and weather played a very important part in their lives. Because of this many ancient people had a great reverence for, and even worshipped the sun. The Norsemen of Northern Europe saw the sun as a wheel that changed the seasons. It was from the word for this wheel, houl, that the word yule is thought to have come. At mid-winter the Norsemen lit bonfires, told stories and drank sweet ale.

The ancient Romans also held a festival to celebrate the rebirth of the year. Saturnalia ran for seven days from the 17th of December. It was a time when the ordinary rules were turned upside down. Men dressed as women and masters dressed as servants. The festival also involved decorating houses with greenery, lighting candles, holding processions and giving presents.

The Winter Solstice falls on the shortest day of the year (21st December) and was celebrated in Britain long before the arrival of Christianity. The Druids (Celtic priests) would cut the mistletoe that grew on the oak tree and give it as a blessing. Oaks were seen as sacred and the winter fruit of the mistletoe was a symbol of life in the dark winter months.

It was also the Druids who began the tradition of the yule log. The Celts thought that the sun stood still for twelve days in the middle of winter and during this time a log was lit to conquer the darkness, banish evil spirits and bring luck for the coming year.

Many of these customs are still followed today. They have been incorporated into the Christian and secular celebrations of Christmas.

How they fool innocent young people to become monks!

44:41 in Greek no subtitles

A monk says at 44:41 that children should before anything else confess. After that 2 fathers of 2 monks are interviewed saying that after their sons had confessed to one priest somewhere, they were sent (advised) to confess to a certain monastery. The second professor seemed to have known everything about them, although they had never met before. Then comes the sign of Madonna, who shows who is the choosen one to be a monk and cannot refuse, because there will no second chance and he will face the wrath of Jahweh.

Happy now Mmes. and Messrs. modern Greek Orthodox of 2015 CE?

The Greek Holy Synod is against the existence of homosexuality. Some were wondering, if the usually loud bishops were an exception. The Holy Community of the Holy Mountain is against homosexuality. Some so called moderate like Nikolaus of Mesogaia and Laureotiki and Paulus of Siatista are against it and some who are unknown like Ignatius of Larissa, Paul of Glyfada and Alexander of Mantineia are against the existence of it. I don't know how they think they are going to prevent it, but ...

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Source in Greek for the Holy Mountain

Paul of Glyfada

Nikolaos of Mesogaia

Ignatios of Larissa

Alexander of Mantineia

Paul of Siatista

Some self-specified Christian Orthodox begin to awaken. However Christian Orthodoxy is a product of an Empire and it's Church.

Vasilis Leventis

Stavros Theodorakis

George Liagkas
 

Bishops arguing, whether one should spit at "sinners and loosers" or not

The most moderate bishop so far says one should not spit at loosers and sinners.

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Mourning because of a law

A bishop said that the Greek town Aigio had to pass 2 days in mourning, because a law was voted that granted some rights to homosexual pairs. How about paying taxes, so that the Greek State has money to invest, the people get some jobs and gain money for their families? Unemployment and bankruptcy are the problems that young couples face not if some homosexuals want some civil rights.

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Greek Archbishop says that only Greek Orthodox are normal!

The people of the Church have a way of life (the Greek Church of course) and whoever doesn't conform with it, is deviating from life.
Furthermore he said the Church isn't interested in what is good for the nation, but the patriots and nationalists and so on, will do as if they didn't hear anything about it.
Then again he suppresses the fact that the Greek Church wanted further subjugation to the Ottoman Empire and quotes wrongly a statement, which most probably has never been uttered. The man who is supposed to have said it couldn't read or write newspapers himself, so most probably he didn't know exactly what he was supposed to have said. Even if there is a correction some days letter, it is difficult to find out.

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