While everyone worries about the insanity of an ascending Donald Trump, Europe suffers the onslaught of another powermonger, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Unlike Trump whose demented outlook may yet scare the US establishment into accountability, while at the same time dealing a much-needed blow to the out-of-control movement of political correctness, Erdogan is entrenched in power. He won’t scare anyone into sense; on the contrary, he’s scaring people out of their minds, playing master puppeteer with the weak leaders of the EU.
(The article in the Spectator sums it up nicely, and the accompanying podcast puts everything in perspective…
‘Jesus. Such an annoying prick.’ ~ Caiafas
‘I know.’ ~ Judas
Easter. The Holy Week. A period when Greek Orthodox Christianity gathers to celebrate the sacrifice and resurrection of the Son of God in the name of a world purified from evil and ignorance, in holy congregation, in a tongue no one understands.
The situation is tragicomic. All sermons and liturgies are delivered in Koine, a version of Greek which no one speaks, save the preachers, the linguistics professors, and your odd 110-year-old veteran. Churchgoers are addressed in a language they don’t understand. They don’t get the body of the…
‘The Greek Orthodox Church: an institution that wants the devotion of its subjects badly enough to threaten them with damnation if they don’t attend it, but not badly enough to translate the old-language texts with which it addresses its subjects so that said subjects may be part of the service. An institution that has veered from the essence of its Lord’s teaching far enough to be on par with the Pharisees, whom Christ rose up to confront in the first place.’ ~ THE OTHER DIMENSION
They ask me why I don’t go to Church during Easter. …
