NON-CHRISTIAN IDEAS - PAGANISM
- OFFENSIVE TO GREEK ORTHODOX CONTENT REMOVED A judge in the Supreme Court of Victoria "found" the exhibition Humanist Transhumanist of 2009 which was critical of religion to be "offensive". He provided no specific reason for calling the exhibition "offensive" other than his stating this as an unchallengeable fact. The exhibition criticised Christianity, especially the role that religion played in giving rise to the hatred of Adolf Hitler which was used to incite the hatred against Jews that led to the holocaust. Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was quoted in the context of the Old Testament passages that urge racial purity. Hitler then committed the genocide demanded in the Old Testament against those described as anti-Christ in the New Testament, the Jews. Hitler's racist hate of Jews was based on the New Testament, and the genocide he committed is demanded in the Old Testament. Christianity was criticised for having destroyed our understanding of the meanings behind ancient mythological concepts. Two thousand years of Christianity allowed for the swastika, an ancient Greek symbol, to be turned into and used as a symbol for Nazi racism. The Medousa (alternately, Medusa, η Μέδουσα) - in a running pose - is the swastika rendered as an anthropotherion. Medousa gammadion was one of the exhibited works. The crucifix or star of David, I wrote in 2009, should have been the appropriate symbol to represent the genocide Hitler committed. CONTENT REMOVED
Medousa gammadion,above right and below, is one of the new "Mytheic" series introduced in the exhibition of 2009. Below, p.32, Humanist Transhumanist.
KYROU (of the Supreme Court of Victoria) : CHAOS CHASM SOPHIA (WISDOM) "FOREIGN WORDS", "OFFENSIVE", available on Austlii Kyrou's (του Κύρου) "finding" was that foreign words used by this author, (words that were written in Greek script) were the cause of offence that necessitated Cripps disclaiming and disendorsing the show by posting disclaimers throughout the exhibtion space. --- The words that caused the said offence were χαός, χασμός, σοφία (Chaos, chasm, wisdom). These words are concepts which in pre-Christian Greek mythology were abstractions that were deified. CONTENT REMOVED
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THE AFFRONT SURREALISM CAUSES TO A GREEK CHRISTIAN ZEALOT: SURREALISM: A "JEWISH CONSPIRACY" Surrealism: anti-religion anti-nationalism For Greek Orthodox Christians, surrealism is an act of treason betraying one's nation
A synopsis of surrealism from the NGV (National Gallery of Victoria, state art museum), explains that surrealism was: a rebellion "against all forms of authoritarian control", that its practitioners drew on the "irrational logic of dreams", "attacke[d] nationalism, religion… mechanisms that had contributed to war", with themes that include "sexuality and violence inextricably [blended]", and was "transgressive". IN GREECE SURREALISM IS
DENOUNCED AS A "JEWISH CONSPIRACY" AGAINST CHRISTIANITY; The Greek Orthodox Church in Greece has been pursing "blasphemers" assisted by Golden Dawn, the extreme Greek Christian fundamentalist party. Greek blasphemy laws constitute part of the enforcement of Greek identity which is: Greek Orthodox Christian.
CONTENT REMOVED Recently the Greek Church filed a lawsuit against a surrealist artist for the committing of blasphemy. The artist defended his art, defining it as "surrealism". Supporters of the church, who supported the action taken against the artist, described surrealism as a "Jewish conspiracy" that had sought to "discredit Christianity and Nationalism". Greece is a nation defined by Greek Orthodox Christianity, in which Greek Orthodox religion is written into its constitution, in which the head of the Orthodox Church swears in the government, and in which offence is found in that which criticises or "demeans" what is believed to constitute the character of the nation, the character of "true" Greeks, their Christianity.
IN GREECE "PAGAN" IDEAS ARE
CONSIDERED "ANTI-CHRISTIAN" AND, Golden Dawn, endorsed by the Greek Orthodox Church, has recently run afoul of that church because one (or more) members of that party have shown some interest in the "pagan" ideas of their ancestors - the very same "pagan" ideas that were part of my 2009 exhibition. CONTENT REMOVED
GREEK CHRISTIAN ANTISEMITISM (RACISM) The Greek Christian mentality:
The antisemitism on which Greek racism is based can be found in the New Testament where Jews are decried as the anti-Christ because Jews reject the divinity of Jesus.
CONTENT REMOVED Greek Orthodox Christianity describes critics of Christianity as "anti-Christ". This definition for "anti-Christ" is derived from the New Testament: it is the advocation of antisemitism because Jews had rejected Christ. [I have
written about this before, in 2004 Greek Orthodox Christianity on "atheism" The definition and understanding of "anti-Christ" is derived directly from doctrine, the New Testament, and those who in the New Testament reject Christ are Jews. According to Christiological theory, Jesus was the incarnation of god in human form (and not a seperate entity). In the Greek Consistution this is refered to as the "Indivisible Trinity". Doctinally, to reject of Jesus, as do the Jews, is to reject god. Atheism is characterised as Jewish.
GREEK ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY: A RESTATING OF HITLER Ρατσισμός τον Ελλήνων. Ο ελληνικός Χριστιανισμός είναι ο μόνος είδος του Χριστιανισμού που εκφράζει της ιδέες και το μίσος του Αδόλφου Χίτλερ (Adolf Hitler) και τον Nazi. Ο σταυρός του Χριστού είναι σύμβολο ελληνικού μίσος. Racism of the Greeks. Greek Christianity is the only form of Christianity that expresses the ideas and the hatred of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. The crucifix of Christ is the symbol of Greek hatred.
Greek antisemitism manifests itself in Easter liturgies, as well as in the form of individuals from within the clergy. One such representative of the Greek Orthodox Christian clergy is bishop Karanicolas who wrote a book titled "Jews and Christians". In it, Karanicolas uses the kind of language any reader of Mein Kampf is familiar with:
In writing his book, Karanicolas is emulating the Arab Nazi Muslim, al Husseini. Al Husseini, a Nazi whose Islamic cause was supported by Adolf Hitler, authored a pamphlet, "Jews and Islam". In it, al Husseini cites the genocide-of-the-Jews hadith, which is still used by Hamas today as the goal pursued in "Palestine". It was the goal pursued by Adolf Hitler. CONTENT REMOVED
The Mufti, al Husseini, in his expression of the antisemitism which defines and characterises Islam claimed, in his WW2 Arab-language Nazi radio broadcasts from Berlin, that the Jews "suck the blood" of other peoples, paraphrasing what Hitler had already written in Mein Kampf, which is precisely how Karanicolas has expressed Greek Orthodox Christian racism.
Greeks define themselves according to Christian Orthodoxy which is part of the constitution. Greek Orthodox Christianity is characterised by antisemitism (which the church refuses to repudiate)
Golden Dawn, which has been disingenuously described as an aberration of the Greek Orthodox Christian character, is instead an emphatic representation of Greek Christianity (though there are some exceptions). Golden Dawn, is a product of, and reinforceces the Christianity of Greeks.
It has been suggested that Golden Dawn's popularity arose from the economic problems that country faces. However, the success of Golden Dawn is the product of a nation that promotes Christianity as the quintessential trait that identifies Greeks as a people.
Promoting Christianity promotes the nation, nationalism. Referring to nationalism as being "racist" and "Nazi" is offensive to Greeks, because, like Hitler, their nationalism is their Christianity and to be anti-nationalist is to be anti-Christian. It is therefore offensive to show that Hitler was a Christian who advocated for a Germany run on Christian values.
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