Category: political

As far as ideological leanings go, it is best to be in the center and to examine both the right and the left very carefully and cautiously. My two favorite intellectuals are Patrick Buchanan and the late Christopher Hitchens. The former is right wing while the latter was a man of the left.

Buchanan supports the old fashioned non interventionism regarding foreign wars. Buchanan opposed the Gulf War, the bombing of Serbia, the invasion of Iraq in 2003, intervention in Syria, and opposed expanding NATO to the Russian border which antagonized the Russians. I have also admired his devotion to his Catholic faith and his conservatism on social issues.

Christopher Hitchens was an old fashioned liberal. His atheism and some of his left leaning positions on social issues were contrary to my views. Regardless, Hitchens was a superb journalist and writer, and even when he was wrong he was worth reading. He was right on many things such as his support for the freedom of Cyprus, his support for the impeachment of Bill Clinton, and his denunciation of Henry Kissinger as a war criminal.

It is important to have a thorough appreciation of and understanding for both sides of the political spectrum. I started out as a conservative but I generally wandered away from partisan politics and preferred to distance myself from politics. Much of that had to do with the Bush administration’s war on Iraq as well as the right’s traditional pro Turkish foreign policy. As a Greek American, I am unequivocally opposed to Turkey with its legacy of genocide and territorial conquest.

Now I identify once again with conservatism. The Democratic Party and its extremism has made it impossible to remain politically non aligned. The extremism of the left and its embrace of neo pagan ideology (transgender ideology, infanticide) and now the hideous hatred directed at Police and the utterly insane idea of defunding and/or abolishing the Police!

I did not vote between 2000 and 2012. In 2000, I voted for Patrick Buchanan who was running on the Reform Party ticket. I detested Bush and Gore. In hindsight, I think it might have been better had Gore won. At least then we would have been spared the Iraqi invasion and the subsequent interventions in Libya and Syria which were sequels to the Iraqi invasion.

When I resumed voting, I voted for Ron Paul in the Republican Primary in 2012. His non interventionist foreign policy views appealed to me. In November however I voted for Barack Obama. I believed Obama was preferable to Mitt Romney who had called Russia America’s greatest enemy and who had said he would bomb Iran.

Unfortunately, Obama intervened in Syria and exacerbated tensions with Russia under the influence of neoconservatives such as Victoria Nuland. In 2016, I was for Trump on the basis of his public statements criticizing the wars in Iraq and Syria, and a desire for reconciliation with Russia.

I have been all over the map when it comes to voting. I believe that the intellect is more important than ideology. Historical knowledge and understanding is very important. Donald Trump understands this and has for the most part guided the United States away from war. He needs to back off Iran, I will say that. His view four years ago that ISIS was a menace and that Russia is a potential ally was a very farsighted and enlightened foreign policy stance.

Donald Trump has a good deal of historical knowledge and understanding of history and world affairs. He also understands and appreciates freedom of religion. Many will scoff at this post should they read it, but the fact is that the Trump administration is an administration that relies on the intellect.

Contrast this with the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is an ideological Party. That is it. Intellectual discourse and knowledge have been purged. The Democrats believe that it is an act of bigotry to suggest that men should not use the ladies room. If one were to state that it is a fact that there are in fact only two genders one will be denounced as a bigot and “transphobe” in the Democratic Party.

The rank and file of the Democratic Party is demanding the defunding of the Police. In fairness, most Democrats have rejected this. Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden has rejected this demand. The question is, how long until the Democrats succumb to their angry constituency and adopt this insane position?

The Democrats succumbed to the pressure of Planned Parenthood and other pro abortion groups to support abortion right up until the ninth month of pregnancy. They purged their ranks of any critics of gay marriage and transgender ideology. Having proven that they have no moral backbone, it is a certainty that the hysterical demand to defund the Police will make its way to the platform of the Democratic Party at some point.

The number one reason for my contempt for the Democratic Party is because of that ideological movements utter rejection of knowledge. That Party has sacrificed the intellect for ideology. Take for example its mad anti Russian (I know I am sounding like a broken record regarding Russia on this post and several others on this blog but be patient) agenda.

Russia is a great power with a glorious history and has made clear that it will defend its sovereignty and its interests abroad (as in Syria). Russia has been invaded countless times throughout history going back to the Teutonic Knights in 1242. Since then, the Russians have been invaded by Sweden, Lithuania. Poland, Napolean, the German Kaiser, and Hitler.

The Democrats in their devotion to their own ideology and hunger for power do not seem to comprehend the danger that is manifest in their blaming the Russians for the outcome of the 2016 elections. Paul Begala, a former Clinton official openly said in 2016 that the United States should bomb Russia!

Yes, a prominent Democrat suggested bombing a country that is a nuclear power! The country that lost twenty million people in the Second World War and still crushed Hitler! After the fall of the Third Reich, the world regretted not taking Hitler seriously when his memoir “Mein Kamp” was published in 1925 eight years before his seizure of power.

If history has taught us anything it is to take seriously what politicians say. The Democratic Party has not only blamed Russia for the outcome of the 2016 elections, former National Security Advisor Susan Rice has blamed the Russians for the riots in the United States. We should be very fearful of what could happen should the Democrats win November’s Presidential election.

With regard to the insane demand by the American left that Police should be defunded. It is very clear that these ideologues do not know what the hell a failed state is. Remember Somalia and Afghanistan! A country becomes a failed state when there is no more authority.

Perhaps my comparison with Somalia and Afghanistan is extreme and unlikely. Maybe, but do we really want to find out what will happen if the Police are either defunded or abolished? The intellect is dead in the Democratic Party.

This is too bad because liberals have been right on some issues in the past. For example, liberals were right to condemn the torture and abuses that took place at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Someone in the Bush administration having read a book called “The Arab Mind” thought it would be useful to sexually humiliate Iraqi prisoners. Anyone with human decency who has seen photographs or videos of the abuses at Abu Ghraib was sickened. Liberal Democrats were right to condemn the Bush administration for that sickening affair.

Liberals were also correct to criticize the Reagan administration for funding the death squads in El Salvador during the 1980’s. The Salvadoran death squads murdered civilians and were responsible for the murders of several Catholic nuns and Archbishop Oscar Romero in 1980. Liberals have had their moments.

Unfortunately, they became completely unhinged by political correctness and institutions of higher learning have become left wing versions of madrassas. The Democratic Party has now been take over by extremists. Left wing ideology at the expense of everything. Reason and the intellect have no home in the Democratic Party.

The Democrats have been taken over by the extreme left of the party. This is now a party that endorses infanticide and the castration and mutilation of children. The Governors of Virginia and New York have passed extreme laws on abortion that permit the killing of infants that have survived an abortion. The Democratic party also supports the transgender movement which endorses the process of “transitioning” for children. In addition, the political left which is the base of the Democratic party supports allowing men who consider themselves female to use the ladies facilities thus overthrowing conventional norms of propriety and morality.

I am not a Republican nor am I “right wing”. I consider George W. Bush to be the worst President in American history. I consider Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, and Paul Wolfowitz and the rest to be war criminals. The invasion of Iraq unleashed the rise of ISIS and the subsequent genocide. The invasion of Iraq set the stage for the Obama administration’s intervention in Libya which led to the overthrow of that regime and which turned Libya into a failed state in which Al Quada and ISIS established a presence.

After Libya, the Obama administration armed and supported the various Syrian “rebels” all of whom were associated with Jihadism one way or another. The whole of the region became a slaughter house with one third of Iraq and one third of Syria coming under the control of ISIS. In addition, the wars in the region created a wave of refugees which flooded Europe. Greece was heavily impacted by the refugee crisis. In 2015-2017 Paris, London, and Brussels were bombed by members of ISIS. While the Obama administration deserves blame for its own policies, it was the Bush administration that started the whole business of “regime change”.

This brings us to President Donald Trump. There is an old expression that you should not judge a book by its cover. Donald Trump is in many ways inarticulate and does not express himself well. He does tend to say stupid things, and I cannot state that I agree with what he says on these occasions.

However, I look beyond the cover and read the book. Donald Trump has presented himself as a welcome alternative to both major political parties. Donald Trump opposed the wars in Iraq and Syria, and the intervention in Libya. Most significantly of all, he desires warm relations with Russia. President Trump removed American backing for the the so called “rebels” in Syria and allowed the Russians to save Syria and to prevent that country from becoming a failed state.

All is not perfect. Turkey has been left occupying parts of Syria and the Trump administration abandoned the Syrian Kurds who fought heroically against ISIS. These are serious moral lapses. Yet, Trump at least has begun making a change to traditional foreign policy. There is reason to believe that with a second term things may work out better.

One of the greatest and pressing concerns that I have with the Democratic party which is even more serious than the lunatic stances on social issues mentioned above is the blatant anti Russian hysteria it has come to espouse. The Bush administration was criminal for its actions in Iraq. The Democrats are willing to go even further and provoke tensions with a nuclear power like Russia!

The pathetic rabble that calls itself the Democratic Party blames Russia for Donald Trump’s election win in 2016. This is pure madness and a dangerous escalation of tensions with Moscow. We are expected to believe that the great Hillary Clinton could not have possibly lost the election because the electorate rejected her!

Hillary Clinton demonstrated that she has a big mouth when she compared Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin with Hitler! Unbeknownst to Mrs. Clinton with the big mouth, the Russian President was born in what was then Leningrad after the war. During the war, Leningrad was under siege by the Nazi invaders and massive numbers of Russians starved to death. Among them was the Russian Presidents older brother. The Russian President’s father fought in the Red Army in defense of the city, and two of his Uncle’s were killed fighting Hitler’s armies.

The Hitler comparison is even stupider considering the support that her husbands administration gave for the pro Nazi regime in Croatia during the 1990’s which was responsible for the ethnic cleansing of over 200,000 Orthodox Christian Serbs. Furthermore, the Ukrainian militias that Russia has been fighting are Neo-Nazi. Incidentally, Neo-Nazi propaganda and holocaust denial have been outlawed in Russia under President Putin.

I see things from a rather unique vantage point. I am cognizant of Byzantine history and heritage. Nine hundred years ago, the Byzantine Empire with its capital in Constantinople was the center of the world. This was the political and spiritual center of Orthodoxy. The Empire lived with the Muslim world in the east and the world of the Latins (ie Roman Catholics) in the west.

At the end of the eleventh century, the Roman Catholics launched the Crusades against the Muslim world when they conquered Jerusalem and committed genocide against Muslims and Jews. Previous to their conquest of Jerusalem, the Crusaders passed through Constantinople. Tensions were very apparent as the Greek Orthodox came to loathe them.

The same tensions are apparent nine centuries later between Orthodox Russia (the successor to Byzantium) and the the western heirs to the Crusades (America, Europe, NATO). The Crusaders waged war in the name of Christianity, an idea the Orthodox east did not endorse or understand. Today, the west wages wars in the east (and more crucially near the borders of Russia) in the name of democracy.

There is much to criticize in the neoconservative elements of the Republican party who have an agenda not consistent with that of the Christian east, but for the moment it is the Democrats who represent the greater danger for the Orthodox world with their rabid and unrelenting Russophobia. A political party that embraces the belief that there are more than two genders and which has zero knowledge of history cannot be trusted with the authority to conduct foreign relations with a country like Russia, or to formulate policies in the Middle east. The Democratic party has emerged as the anti intellectual movement of the twenty first century.

Its leaders and rank and file members possess an unending expertise on matters such as “diversity”. Let them concentrate on matters such as “gender studies” and other garbage. They know nothing about world history or foreign relations. Their rabid Russophobia might lead the United States into a greater debacle than that of Iraq.

President Donald Trump is the anti war candidate. His administration has tried to end the endless foreign interventions in the middle east. His efforts to reconcile with Russia are admirable. The President without question has a greater understanding of the complexities of the world than his detractors in the Democratic Party.

Regarding the corona virus. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (he of the liberal abortion law that permits infanticide) insisted that the virus should be called the “European” virus, and not the “Chinese” virus on the grounds that the virus was transmitted to New York from Europe. This proves that Democrats are incapable of rational thought. Where did Europe get the virus? Europe got the virus from China where it originated because of the infamous wet “markets” and the unsanitary conditions.

The Chinese government waited two months before it took action to contain the spread of the virus. It allowed the citizens of Wuhan where the virus originated to gather and celebrate the Chinese new year. At the beginning, several Chinese doctors investigating the disease were warned by the communist party to keep their mouths shut. Those doctors have “disappeared’.

It is well known that the World Health Organization (WHO) is under the influence of the Chinese Communist Party. Its director general has been Beijing’s man since he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Ethiopia. The Chinese government nominated him for his posting at WHO. WHO does not seem to have taken an interest in the fates of the Chinese doctors who are missing and ignored the warning from the authorities inTaiwan that the virus had spread to that island.

Innocent people from around the world have died, economies have been destroyed, and virtually all citizens everywhere have had their freedoms and their lives disrupted. The Trump administration cut off funding to WHO in light of the Chinese Communist influence over that organization. The Democrats are more preoccupied with not giving offense to that Stalinist regime than they are in formulating plans on how to successfully reopen the United States.

Then there is the Democratic party’s attempt to thwart the majority of the American electorate by attempting to overturn the elections of 2016. The attempted coup against the President occurred over the utterly stupid matter of Ukraine. We are expected to believe that President Trump bullied the Ukrainian government of President Zelensky for partisan purposes so he could get dirt on his opponent in the 2020 elections, Joe Biden.

Anyone who has read the transcript of the conversations between the two Presidents would know that there was no pressure or coercion exerted on the Ukrainian President by Trump. If one wants to know what pressure and coercion really are, here is Democratic President Lyndon Johnson speaking to Greek Ambassador to Washington Alexander Matsas at the White House in 1965,

“Fuck your parliament and your constitution. America is an elephant, Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If these two fellows continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant’s trunk, whacked good…If your Prime Minister gives me talk about democracy, parliament, and constitution, he his parliament, and his constitution may not last very long.”

quoted from “Cyprus” by Christopher Hitchens

The Johnson outburst was in response to Ambassador Matsas rejection on behalf of the Greek government of the Acheson Plan for Cyprus which would have required Greece to cede the island of Castellorizo to the Turks among other concessions.

Furthermore, in 1999 Undersecretary of State Richard Holbrooke representing the Clinton administration at Rambouillet sat down to negotiate with the Serbian government over Kosovo. He presented a plan to the Serbs that would have required Belgrade to give up part of its territory (Kosovo) after three years. The price for rejecting this plan was bombing. Serbian targets (including civilian institutions such as Churches, hospitals, television outlets, and trains) were bombed for three months.

President Trump’s conversation with President Zelensky was polite and pleasant and in no way resembled the nasty and abusive manner in which Johnson spoke to the Greek Ambassador. Furthermore, Trump did not threaten the Ukrainian government and never proceeded to bomb that country. The only threat to Ukraine came from former Vice President Joe Biden who by his own admission threatened to cut aid to Ukraine if that government did not fire the prosecutor who was investigating the gas company that employed Biden’s son.

The Democrats therefore attempted to impeach President Trump for an offense that was committed by Vice President Biden. All that President Trump did was to attempt to ascertain whether the Ukrainians had any evidence of wrongdoing by the former Vice President. The Democrats embarked on this impeachment at a time when the corona virus was spreading worldwide. If the administration was not bogged down defending itself in this attempted coup perhaps it could have concentrated on the spread of the virus and the lockdown could have been avoided.

Mention has been made of Serbia. The Democrats and their media allies such as CNN enthusiastically supported the Clinton administrations war on Serbia, another Orthodox country. The anti Russian hysteria today very much resembles the anti Serb sentiment of the mid to late 1990’s. Russia is not Serbia. From Syria to Crimea, the Russians have proven that they will both fight and win if they are provoked.

Former Democratic Presidential Candidate Julian Castro championed the cause of abortion rights for “trans females”. That is, for women who have become “men”. Who the hell can possibly consider voting for these people? These people have completely lost their minds!

Another former candidate Beta O’Rourke stated he would strip Churches of tax exempt status if they refused to perform gay marriages. Here we have an open declaration by a Democrat that he would begin the process of abolishing religious freedom.

All this is by no means to suggest that Trump is without his flaws. Trump has made some very serious errors. He badly mishandled the white supremacist gathering at Charlottsville and waited much too long to condemn the Neo-Nazis. He brought neoconservative lunatics such as John Bolton and Mike Pompeo into his administration. He also nearly triggered a war with Iran through the assassination of Iranian General Soleimani.

President Donald Trump has made mistakes. Even so, a second Trump administration is much preferable to that of a Democratic administration. As of this writing, former national security advisor Susan Rice has blamed the Russians for the riots that have broken out throughout the United States. Is there anything the Russians are not responsible for?

“Filmmaker” Michael Moore has made an anti Trump film where the poster shows the President playing golf with a nuclear blast in the background. Trump is the anti war President who also tried to pursue reconciliation with the Russians. Considering the massive amount of hatred being directed at the Russians by the Democratic Party, who is more likely to provoke a nuclear war?

In addition, the Democrats criticized President Trump’s harsh rhetoric against North Korea and suggested he would provoke a war. When President Trump through diplomacy was able to bring North Korea to the negotiating table all of a sudden he was accused by the Democrats of being soft on North Korea. The Democrats are incapable of formulating any stance based on reason, facts, or reality. Everything is strictly partisan and ideological.

Regarding Greece and Cyprus. The Clinton administration extended recognition to FYROM as “Macedonia” (despite promises made in the 1992 Presidential campaign) in 1994. On January 31, 1996 the Clinton administration pressured Greece to withdraw from the islet of Imia in order to appease Turkey. Support for Turkey continued unabated by both the Clinton and Obama administrations. The Obama-Biden administration’s Syrian war flooded the Greek islands with refugees. Greek American justification for supporting the Democratic Party cannot be sustained by historical facts.

One question for my fellow Greeks. In November 2015, Turkey shot down a Russian plane. Would it not have been a good thing to have had a pro Russian Donald Trump at the White House at that time?

At the present, the United States has been engulfed in riots emanating from the murder of an African American man in Minnesota. One can be sympathetic to and endorse the effort to fight racism and promote civil rights while unequivocally rejecting the extremism of the Marxist radicals who make up a good part of the base of the Democratic Party. Yes to the effort to reverse injustices and stop abuse of African Americans. Yes to the peaceful protesters of goodwill but no to the anarchists that have hijacked a legitimate cause.

In 2016, Donald Trump wanted to go after the Islamic State which was committing genocide against Yazidis, Shiite Muslims, and Christians. Furthermore, the Islamic State was responsible for reviving the institution of slavery in the form of slave markets that trafficked in Yazidi women. Neither President Trump nor the Russians will ever be given credit for stopping these massive human rights violations.

In 2016, Donald Trump viewed Islamic State as the threat to the United States and the world. The Democratic Party viewed Russia as the threat. In 2020, Donald Trump views Communist China which through negligence spread the corona virus throughout the world as a threat to the United States. The Democratic Party still views Russia as the threat to the United States.

Nine centuries ago, the officials at the court of the Greek Emperor of Constantinople looked upon the western Crusaders that passed through the Great City as barbarians. A year from now, Moscow which is the heir to the great spiritual heritage of Constantinople may encounter a new generation of barbarians should the Democrats win in November.

The Russians have been coming under attack from liberal groups for at least a decade or so going back to the Pussy riot affair in Moscow in 2012. That group consisted of several dissident women who protested against the Russian President by barging into the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow and dancing and yelling obscenities in front of the iconastasis. These “dissidents” gained the support of Madonna and other morons from around the world after they were arrested and prosecuted.

Furthermore, when Russia banned gay and lesbian propaganda from schools, liberals from around the world erupted in anger. Gays and lesbians are entitled to live anyway they please but they do not have the right to compel other peoples children to learn about their lifestyles. The Russian government passed the “gay propaganda” law prohibiting the teaching of the homosexual lifestyle to minors.

The Russian government responded in a democratic fashion by listening to the citizens of Russia, and not to the foreign funded non governmental organizations and so called “human rights” groups that sought to push their agendas on unsuspecting schoolchildren. Who elected these non governmental organizations and “human rights” groups?

Ever since Hillary Clinton was crushed in the 2016 elections, the Democratic Party and its media outlets (CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times etc) have promoted anti Russian hysteria. The Democrats have shown how irresponsible and dangerous they are by involving a foreign Government in their election loss. The Democrats and its cheerleaders in the media were more angry over the results of the 2016 elections than they are now by the coverup of the corona virus by the Chinese Communist Party and the failed response of the World Health Organization.

What we have here is a conflict between a traditional Orthodox Christian country and western societies that are in fact opposed to tolerance despite claims to the contrary. Regarding the Pussy riot affair mentioned above. When these women were arrested they were treated by western media as victims of an authoritarian government intent on eradicating criticism of the government.

Facts were never brought into play by western critics. First, their behavior inside the Cathedral interfered with Russian Christians who were there to pray and to light candles. Secondly, a Church is not the place for secular activists to exercise free speech. If they had exercised this right elsewhere they would not have been arrested. Orthodox Christians do not have the right to pray in someone else’s home uninvited.

In addition. the present Cathedral of Moscow is a successor to the previous one. In 1931, the original Christ the Savior Cathedral was demolished on the orders of Joseph Stalin. This was the period in history when the Russian Church was being fiercely persecuted. Bishops, priests, monks, and faithful were being murdered for maintaining fidelity to Jesus Christ. Houses of worship were being destroyed.

The Cathedral that stands today has great meaning for Russian Christians that was not appreciated by either the women of Pussy riot or western media. Much of the western media is dominated by personalities who are both ignorant and narcissistic. They cannot conceive of the idea that there are people called Christians who view life from an entirely different perspective. So much for tolerance.

As a result of Russian refusal to accept the pagan lifestyles now being promoted by the Democratic Party and other social progressives in Europe, international tensions have escalated to dangerous levels. Democrats have blamed the Russians for Donald Trump’s election victory in 2016. The anti Russian hysteria made it impossible for Washington and Moscow to cooperate together against the common threat of the Islamic State.

Here is an irony. The Islamic State made it a practice to behead people, burn others alive, and to enslave women and girls who were members of the Yazidi ethnic group. Islamic State practiced genocide against the Yazidis, as well as against Shiite Muslims and Christians. The Democrats were never outraged by genocide and slavery. Slavery here is referring to the real thing and the word is not being used as a metaphor.

Yazidi women were literally tied up and sold in slave markets in which Jihadists would “purchase” them and abuse them. The Democrats and their fellow liberals around the world were never angry over these real crimes against humanity. No, the real crime against humanity was that the electorate voted against Queen Hillary.

Donald Trump extended his hand in friendship to the Russians and sought to stop genocide in Iraq and Syria. The Democrats want to talk about “homophobia” and “transphobia”. If it were not for the fact that the Democrats might very well provoke a major confrontation with Russia this might very well be amusing.

In 2016, I purchased an issue of Time Magazine to read about President Putin’s visit to Mount Athos. The article was typical anti Russian drivel. After that article I noticed a picture of a bearded woman breast feeding an infant! When I read the article all was explained. My mistake, it was not a bearded woman, it was a pregnant man!

That was when I learned the transgender era had begun. So now we can see the difference between Orthodox Russia and the pagan west. The Russians are building Churches and Monasteries, giving glory to God, and western societies are discussing the large number of genders that exist.

The Russians have brought back the two headed eagle that the old Russian Empire inherited from the Emperors of Constantinople. Western societies increasingly display the “rainbow” flag. The new flag of paganism.

A warning to the Democrats. Seventy nine years ago there was a country that embraced a form of paganism that was far more lethal and insidious and attempted to conquer Russia. That country and its leader ended very badly.

Considering what we are all living through at the present time with the horrors of the coronavirus, the economic catastrophe, and the complete eradication of our freedoms one is easily reminded of the various horror movies dealing with zombies and apocalyptic themes.

Yet one does not have to focus on the virus to be reminded of horror films that are playing out in reality. Take for example the 1973 British horror classic, “The Wicker Man” (not to be confused with the laughable 2006 remake). In that film, a Scottish Policeman is called to an island to investigate the disappearance of a girl. The film shows he is a devout Christian and Churchgoer.

The unsuspecting Churchgoer (played by the late Edward Woodward) comes to realize that the island he is on is inhabited by a mad Cult of pagans. He discovers that schoolchildren are being taught sexually explicit material and that lewd behavior in public places is quite common. Being a God believing Christian, the Officer expresses outrage at the blasphemy and immorality that he encounters.

His foe turns out to be the leader of the Pagan Cult (played by the late great Christopher Lee) who openly expresses disdain for Christianity and endorses his groups pagan worship. The film ends badly for the officer who is subsequently burned alive and sacrificed by the pagans in the belief that a human sacrificed to their fake gods will help their crops in the coming year.

One need only look at the present state of the contemporary west to be reminded of the pagan cult from the “Wicker Man”. Here we have in America a situation where a sixty year old man can share the same restroom as a ten year old girl. We are now being told that there are as many as sixty three different genders !!!! In one notorious case from Texas a mother took legal action to deprive her ex husband of joint custody of their seven year old son so she could eventually begin having him “transition” into a girl.

And of course, there are the pro abortion Governors of Virginia and New York who have openly endorsed not only abortions in the ninth month, but who endorse outright infanticide. The Governor of Virginia suggested it may be permissible to allow an infant that survived an abortion to die or to be simply murdered if the “Doctor” and the Mother so wish.

These are the policies that are now endorsed by the Democratic Party. From an Orthodox Christian standpoint, the Democrats are outright pagans. Christians of all confessions are beginning to be increasingly uncomfortable with the Democrats hostility to the Christian faith.

For example, former Democratic Party Candidate for President Beta O’Rourke openly said during a debate last October that he would strip Churches of tax exempt status if they continued to refuse to permit gay marriages. The audience of Democrats applauded (much like the crowds in ancient Rome applauded when Christians were fed to the lions). None of the other Democrats suggested that the beliefs and practices of Christians should be respected.

As it stands, the Christian world is confronted with the new paganism that has taken over the Democratic Party. In my opinion, it is impossible to take seriously the idea that the Democrats could possibly offer anything during these incredibly difficult times. How can one possibly expect a Presidential Candidate who has openly said that there are at least “three” genders and who is pondering to the political correctness of the extreme left to provide solutions for the present crisis?

Christianity has always been at war with paganism. Christians were martyred for refusing to worship the Roman Emperor. Christians have one certainty at this time. We place our trust in God, and not in men. At the present time by necessity our Churches have been closed and this is understandable.

Let us pray that this does not become a precedent for future action to be taken by the present generation of pagans.

Christos Anesti!! Christ in Risen!