Harry, if you hate my country so much and love your own so much (Greece) why are you living here? America is the easiest country in the world to LEAVE, please do so. No wonder you love multiculturalism so much; it allows you to live here, make your money here, and hate us all at the same time.

Mutliculturism in Greece? Are you kidding me? Not only has the Hellenic Republic confiscated Ancient Macedonian history as exclusively their own, committing ethnic cleansing against their minority Macedonian population, but they hardly recognize any minorities in Greece other some hybrid forms of Turks, Romani, and what they cover up as remnants of the ethnic Macedonians by calling them Bulgarian or “Slavophone speakers.”

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We don’t live in days of the Roman empire anymore?

Shhhhhh…don’t tell the Greeks!

Best Regards
Dean

PS…for the record, the archbishop would have to move forward 300 years to get to the Roman Empire from the period he is referring to (Alexander’s era, 325BC)

this is growing rather tiresome. The obsequiousness of Arb. Demterius was cringe-worthy. We don’t have to act this way anymore, the Ottoman empire is long-gone. Your adulation of Obama (the 9 Trillion Dollar Man) was of a piece with the archbishop’s. Btw, in case you didn’t know, we still live in a republic, therefore we don’t have emperors or kings whom we beg to “live for a thousand years.”

For my money, I’d rather have a metropolitan like Jonah who’s willing to march for life because it’s his Christian witness rather than one who’s primary mission is to carry water for foreign governments. (Have you ever seriously thought about the preposterousness of Demetrius’ title “Archbishop of America”?)

Please read Fr Stanley Harakas’ lecture which was redacted in the latest issue of The Orthodox Observer. His last words were that we can’t really love the Gospel unless we love America (I’m paraphrasing). That’s a question you’re going to have to ask yourself someday, whether you really love America (and Americans) enough to want to take the Gospel to them.

The 2000 year history the unified Christian witness until the last 40 years has been against abortion. Those who call themselves Christian and support abortion are becoming increasingly apostate Abortion is a pagan and/or materialist exercise.

BTW the Republicans are just as corrupt as the Democrats as are all national politicians regardless of political ideology. All the more need for the Church to be prophetic in her stance–proclaiming the way of truth and life in all aspects of our culture, not Dhimmi.

“You are being deceived by the GOP, they will never outlaw abortion, you are being used as political pawns.”

I am not a Republican. I have not been a Republican for years. I think little more of the Republican party than I do of the Democratic Party (which I despise).

I am not being tricked by the GOP. Abortion is inarguably anti-Christian and immoral. It has been so from the very beginning.

Both parties are beholden to the feminists to different degrees. This little game they play (the parties) to convince the American people that there is really a culture war going on, at least within the halls of Washington, is getting to be very obviously a charade.

When a bishop like Metropolitan Jonah comes out and speaks forcefully at a pro-life rally, he is simply obeying Christ, not being unnecessarily divisive. He is not doing it to impress the GOP or because he has been duped by them. He does it because he is a Christian.

I am a member of the Greek Orthodox Church. I am also a practicing and believing Christian, sinner though I am. It is a shame that those last two sentences are not redundant. But I can tell you that it brings shame upon the whole Greek Orthodox Church when the Ecumenical Patriarch recognizes two pro-choice Senators as being outstanding Orthodox Americans, or when our Archbishop flatters a man like Obama who will enable more killing in the name of choice. It makes the GOA look as if it is the Church of cosmopolitan Greekness and not a Christian entity at all.

Thank God for the faithful Greeks in GOA, those who have always taken the faith seriously and also those “reverts” who formerly thought of it as an ethnic tribal religion whose moral witness is outdated and backward, but then came to see that Orthodoxy is the Light that enlightens all the world.

There are very few people here who are going to be convinced that bootlicking servility toward, and aggrandizement of, a pro-death politician is a Christian act in any sense of the word – – especially when you consider that Archbishop Demetrios did this not for any religious purpose but to serve the political interests of his country (Greece, not the US).

Shame, indeed. Or totally shameless.

Believe me if Obama presses FOCA and doing away with the freedom of conscience for medical providers, the Catholic bishops will shut down the entire Catholic hospital system. They’ve already promised to do it.

Where will our bishops stand? No telling for many of them. That is a shame!