Greece’s General Secretary for Human Rights made an unprecedented move: Kostis Papaioannou He collected the recent “hate” statements made by Bishop of Chios Markos and forwarded them to the prosecutor in charge of Racism Crimes. The prosecutor should investigate whether the Bishop has committed any offenses. The General Secretary allegedly sent also the message that “priests’ clothes do not ensure immunity.”
In his preaching on August 15th, Bishop Markos lashed out against migrants and refugees, against the Mosque to be built in Athens, against civilian marriage and against homosexuals.
“There are no refugees, they are all illegal migrants,” the Bishop told the parish of an island that hosts 3,115 refugees and migrants.
With regards to the Mosque to be built in Athens, the holy man (?) attacked the government saying “they have taken down their pants and they worship, they have delivered the country.” He called the people to resist the construction of the mosque.
He lashed out against civilian marriage that has been in effect since more than 25 years and said “it is not possible that those who collect the garbage [the mayors] wed couples.”
The Bishop’s statements triggered an outcry and sources from the Metropolis of Chios tried to calm down the angry spirits saying that the Bishop was the first to open the doors of the church for those who were arriving on the island [last year]. “Bishop Markos just wanted to draw attention to the population alternation on the island,” the sources told local media.
It is the first time an official institution (GS for Human Rights) sends a “hate” speed of a high-ranking clergyman to the prosecutor, although there have been other hard-core Bishops lashing out at the same issues in the past.
These anti-Christian fascists hiding in the Greek Church need to be removed and relocated to prison cells. Greece has been too tolerant of devil-worship masquerading as Christianity for too long.
it would be great to see the wealth of the church put to good use. no more ugly neo-byzantine concrete mega -churches…no more destruction of local built 19th c. chapels…no more soft-handed priests that have never worked a day in their life!
put them to work growing vegetables!
And what do you suggest the church’s money be spent on? Handed over to the bankrupt German banks? To Scheuble and Merkel?
I think you’re forgetting that Greece is a theocracy and i agree no mosque.
Greece is not a theocracy. It could not have joined the EU as such, because such primitive systems of governance are forbidden.
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If, on the other hand, you consider yourself to be a Christian, I do wonder several things:
(a) Have you ever read the teachings of Jesus Christ, as laid out in the New Testament?
(b)Do you consider the hatred and bile that comes out of certain Greek priests to be acceptable to Christians?
(c) Do you really think that the hate speech and Islamophobia that we see every day across the world could be supported by Jesus Christ? All the evidence is that he would he horrified by such abuse of His name.
Well at least the Greek church has not sold out to George Soros unlike the Church of England under its ex-oil executive archbishop. Another state with an established religion.
Religion does not belong into Europe, it belongs into Palestine, outside of Palestine its invaders bullshit, how true believes really are one could see when all believers have to relocate to Jerusalem but hey, if 2 billion kneel down there god will show up, 110%