The new head of Greek Space Agency, Christodoulos Protopapas, was appointed just hours after the former head, astrophysicist Stamatis Krimizis resigned on Thursday. Within hours, the new space chief made it first to social media and then to websites not only because of his striking anti-Europeanism but also due to rather weird belief that Saints “can stop the time.”
In his blog, Protopapas wrote of a miracle Saint Porfyrios the Kapsokalivitis (1906-1991), the Saint who protects Technology, as he stresses.
The miracle was that St Porfyrios “achieved relativistic time dilation through prayers,” when a group of nuns on a taxi stuck in traffic jam were late to reach the Monastery before it would close the door for the evening. He did not write when exactly the miracle happened but the nuns had previously visited the Saint.
The Saint managed to hold time “for over an hour,” the Greek nasa chief notes adding “the last time such a miracle had happened was when Joshua raised his hands in the sign of cross and ordered the sun to stop, so that the day is prolonged and the Israelites win the battle.”
Of course, Joshua from the Old Testament was supposed to have lived long before Jesus Christ and his Crucifixion. But who cares? It’s the faith that leads Greece’s scientific agency.
“The difference between the two miracles is that St Porfyrios time dilation was implemented for only a group of people and not for the whole world” – as in Joshua’s case.
Convinced about the miracle he further notes “the miracle puzzled me for many years because for me it is one of the very few miraculous interventions in time space that have been recorded in our Greek Orthodox tradition and cannot be explained with the conventional scientific knowledge.”
He underlined that “scientists are overawed,” about the miracle.
St Porfyrios, an Athonite monk known for his gifts of spiritual discernment, a type of clairvoyance which he sometimes called “spiritual television.”
Many Greeks shook heads and rolled eyes as they considered it as “not appropriate” or even hilarious that the head of Greece’s top scientific agency is challenging metaphysics over real science. Relationship between religion and science is very delicate and the one does not exclude the other.
Then one more of his posts on social media dated April 2016 added the icing on the cake of ignorance and ultra-nationalism.
Here with English translation
"Greece and Greekness never dies, you fucking Europeans. When we were building temples & writing tragedies, you were living in the mud, were eating raw meat, were dirty and had no spoken language. Sunset at Sounion" — Christodoulos Protopappas, the new head of Greek space agency pic.twitter.com/6QmPFNgqk8
— Damian Mac Con Uladh (@damomac) April 26, 2018
Christodoulos Protopapas was born in Cyprus. He is an electrical engineer and was head of HELLAS SAT for several years.
New Democracy issued a statement noting among others that now the “chemtrails have reached the outer space.” ΝΔ demanded in fact that the government responds to the accusation made by the ex HSA head Krimizis about lack of transparency and meritocracy.
Leader of PASOK, Fofi Genimata commented “with St Portyfrios help Greece may achieve a clean exit form the bailout program.”
PS an some Greek wonder how an atheist prime minister could order minister for telecommunication Pappas (priest) to hire a Protopappas (chief priest) – kind of joke….
He might be right about Europeans in the past, but certainly not today. Europeans of recent time have made quite a number of amazing contributions to our planet. The question to ask the Greek Space Chief is what have the modern Greeks done lately? Why not also focus on the current Greek accomplishments?