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Mar. 1st, 2005 07:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katsarisI've not seen anyone yet make the obvious comparison: Anglican crisis vs. Greek Orthodox crisis.
The Anglican Church is currently having a crisis over a moral/doctrinal issue -- namely the acceptance of homosexuality and sanctioning of same-sex marriage, with Anglican churches in Canada going one way, in Britain and Africa going another. I'd ofcourse much prefer the Canadian chaps to prevail, but IMO both sides hold a dignified position, holding different opinion on how much leeway one should use in interpreting scripture, and how much traditions are subject to change.
On the other hand, the Greek Orthodox Church is currently crisis-ing over priests having sex-scandals, doing business with Interpol fugitives, having meetings and giving recommendation letters to drug dealers, position-jockeying in ways dirtier than the most dirty politician, and so forth and so forth. Archbishops pretend to apologize for the scandals, and then blame everyone else except themselves -- they pretend to humility and then self-proclaim themselves innocent martyrs whose goldenmouthed speech is prophet-like. They claim they'll rid the Church of corruption and then they accuse of ulterior motives every person that reveals and attacks such corruption.
They claim they want light to be spilt over the whole affair, but in reality they've fully surrendered themselves (mind, heart, and body) over to the gods of the Dark.
If hell exists, I wonder if there's any (nominally legal) profession more likely to send you there than being a bishop in the Greek Orthodox Church.
Neither Reformation nor the French Revolution ever reached Greece, you see -- the one to start challenging the special holiness of the priesthood, the other to utterly destroy it as a ruling caste.
Heaven knows we could use some more anti-clericalism in Greece.
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As I predicted, the Central Asian elections fizzled out uselessly so far -- Kyrgyzstan and even more so Tajikistan. Token weak opposition to not-really-free-and-definitely-unfair elections, ho hum, ho hum, regime and authoritarian rule survives.
But Lebanon's on the other hand getting interesting indeed -- again as I predicted (yay me!). Not only has the PM and his government there resigned (Lebanese President still remains in his place though, so that's not as huge an event as it'd be in more PM-centric countries) but now the Lebanese mass opposition turns itself against the Syrian troops presence itself.
The Red-and-White revolution has begun in earnest. Not Kyrgyzstan but Lebanon is the new Ukraine! :-)
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Plus, I need to catch up to my email. Several emails by friends, to whom I've been too late to respond back. Sorry, everyone!
The Anglican Church is currently having a crisis over a moral/doctrinal issue -- namely the acceptance of homosexuality and sanctioning of same-sex marriage, with Anglican churches in Canada going one way, in Britain and Africa going another. I'd ofcourse much prefer the Canadian chaps to prevail, but IMO both sides hold a dignified position, holding different opinion on how much leeway one should use in interpreting scripture, and how much traditions are subject to change.
On the other hand, the Greek Orthodox Church is currently crisis-ing over priests having sex-scandals, doing business with Interpol fugitives, having meetings and giving recommendation letters to drug dealers, position-jockeying in ways dirtier than the most dirty politician, and so forth and so forth. Archbishops pretend to apologize for the scandals, and then blame everyone else except themselves -- they pretend to humility and then self-proclaim themselves innocent martyrs whose goldenmouthed speech is prophet-like. They claim they'll rid the Church of corruption and then they accuse of ulterior motives every person that reveals and attacks such corruption.
They claim they want light to be spilt over the whole affair, but in reality they've fully surrendered themselves (mind, heart, and body) over to the gods of the Dark.
If hell exists, I wonder if there's any (nominally legal) profession more likely to send you there than being a bishop in the Greek Orthodox Church.
Neither Reformation nor the French Revolution ever reached Greece, you see -- the one to start challenging the special holiness of the priesthood, the other to utterly destroy it as a ruling caste.
Heaven knows we could use some more anti-clericalism in Greece.
--
As I predicted, the Central Asian elections fizzled out uselessly so far -- Kyrgyzstan and even more so Tajikistan. Token weak opposition to not-really-free-and-definitely-unfair elections, ho hum, ho hum, regime and authoritarian rule survives.
But Lebanon's on the other hand getting interesting indeed -- again as I predicted (yay me!). Not only has the PM and his government there resigned (Lebanese President still remains in his place though, so that's not as huge an event as it'd be in more PM-centric countries) but now the Lebanese mass opposition turns itself against the Syrian troops presence itself.
The Red-and-White revolution has begun in earnest. Not Kyrgyzstan but Lebanon is the new Ukraine! :-)
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Plus, I need to catch up to my email. Several emails by friends, to whom I've been too late to respond back. Sorry, everyone!
hello
Date: 2005-03-09 08:48 am (UTC)stav
Re: hello
Date: 2005-03-10 04:43 am (UTC)Kai mia mou to thimises, as stamatiso na to anabalo kai na kano post sxoliasmo tis protis... :-)