Comments on MYSTAGOGY: Contemporary Greece and Westernization

I would REALLY like to get a reference for that Ki...

2010-06-30T08:11:39.329-04:00

I would REALLY like to get a reference for that Kissinger quote.

My comments weren't intended for anyone in par...

2010-02-09T15:39:54.044-05:00

My comments weren't intended for anyone in particular, but are merely stated to clarify from past conversations on this quote from Kissinger.

Just to be clear I'm not siding with Kissinger...

2010-02-09T15:21:29.467-05:00

Just to be clear I'm not siding with Kissinger, I'm trying to understand my proper and helpful relationship to my Greek elder brothers and sisters in Christ.

Kissinger has plans and all plans are inherently diabolical, I have none.

Lest anyone think that the quote by Kissinger is a...

2010-02-09T14:04:10.117-05:00

Lest anyone think that the quote by Kissinger is a hoax, as many do, this is what the eminent theologian Fr George Metallinos had to say about it:

"I was studying in Germany when Kissinger made this speech. It was in 1974, and I was listening to the late Pavlo Bakoyianni's Greek program out of Munich. The speech was in the English language with a Greek overvoice translation. I know English and can tell you with absolute certainty that he made those comments because I heard him make them."

The rest of Europe would rather have Mount Athos b...

2010-02-09T13:42:37.664-05:00

The rest of Europe would rather have Mount Athos be full of resorts than monasteries. Greece to them is a vacation destination, or a land of historical curiosities to view with guidebook in hand. The less Greeks interfere in their enjoying these things, the better, so they would undoubtedly say.

The Kissinger quote is entirely and thoroughly repulsive. He's like a Machiavelli reborn.

But you know that non-Greeks don't know what t...

2010-02-09T11:57:10.903-05:00

But you know that non-Greeks don't know what that means.

If I'm fighting for the "Greek" in Orthodoxy then I'm fighting for something that also belongs to me (as an Orthodox convert) and I'm not Greek. This complicates things. How can I fight for it and not inadvertently appropriate it.

The Greek person has an inbuilt character to fight...

2010-02-08T21:23:39.645-05:00

The Greek person has an inbuilt character to fight to keep and preserve that which is traditional and historical. Of late, with the advent of the Internet, its biggest enemy has been the destruction of this through the American culture and other nations "change" Orthodoxy from its "Greek character" and into a more globally acceptable Orthodoxy ...

If you wish to help Greece, you help by fighting to preserve the "Greek" in Orthodoxy. Promoting and keeping the "Greek" in Orthodoxy (as it has been for 2,000 years) not "modernising" it to use modern Russian or Balkan words of our Church in Christ ...

To an extent the whole world is Greek, or at least...

2010-02-08T20:18:12.479-05:00

To an extent the whole world is Greek, or at least so heavily influenced that even what isn't Greek still finds it's roots in reacting to Greeks. The problem is the Greekness of the world is diluted with all that reaction and the local cultures and places of the globe. The question I have for Greeks is, how can we non-Greeks honor that Greek-gift present in all civilization? The question I have for Greeks about themselves is, is being Greek inflating that which makes Greeks different, or laying claim to what you rightfully own that all modern civilized man has in common?