The Rainbow Janissaries Strike at the heart of Greece

The Ministry of Education in Athens has introduced a sex education program that will be taught to children from kindergarden to high school. The program reportedly will endorse transgender ideology and will portray abortion as perfectly moral. According to news reports, the nuclear family will be heavily criticized and children will be taught to challenge the teaching of their parents.

This is Greece two hundred years after the declaration of the War of Independence against the Turks. This is what is being taught to Greek children at a time when Greek populations on the islands near the coast of Turkey face possible genocide in the event of a Turkish invasion. Why are Greek children being kept ignorant of the heroic struggles of their ancestors who shed their blood in order to ensure the existence of future generations of Orthodox Greeks?

Why are Greek children not learning about the genocide of the Greek populations in Asia Minor by the Turks? Because the Greek government like most of what constitutes the western world is dominated by left wing neo-Marxist ideologues who set the agenda. This is a moral outrage.

The Greek nation suffered horrendously during the centuries of Ottoman Turkish captivity. Generations of Greek boys were abducted by the Ottomans and trained as fighters in the elite fighting force known as the Janissaries. They were forcibly taken from their families, converted to Islam, and turned into fighting machines often to be used against fellow Christians.

Hellenic populations in regions that came to be part of independent Greece survived. There were numerous other regions where large numbers of Greeks managed to survive until they were wiped out in the final wave of genocide that occurred in 1922 and 1923. The parts of the Greek world that managed to survive up to the present day did so because of their Orthodox faith and the institution of the family. Devotion to the Church and the protection of Christ ensured that Greeks would survive the Turkish horrors.

The institution of the family which has come under attack throughout the western world saved the Greek nation along with faith in Christianity. The home was a place of refuge from the Ottoman persecution and discrimination. There is a 1963 film made by Greek American Director Elia Kazan called “America America”. That film features a great scene where the father who is often humiliated by the Turks leads his family in prayer. Without the institution of the family, Greeks could not have survived the long centuries of Ottoman rule.

Greek culture and language could not have survived without the Orthodox Church which reminded the Greek people of a lost history that preceded the coming of the Turks. The divine liturgy and worship was crucial in maintaining the Greek language. The Ottomans themselves as Muslims considered all Christians to be “people of the book”, recipients of an earlier revelation.

For all their brutality and for all the horrors of Ottoman rule, the laws of the Sultan’s Empire made it possible for Christianity to survive even in the midst of persecution. Without the Christian faith, the Greek language and the memories of the pre Turkish past would have faded away. These historical facts are not appreciated by the lunatics at the Greek Ministry of education who want to do away with Christ and to impose the new twenty first century pagan agenda that has ravaged most of the western world.

Around fifteen years ago, the secular and internationalist ideologues in Greece began striking at the history of Greece under the guise of “tolerance” and political correctness. Greek textbooks for schools were to include nice comments about the Janissaries. Educated Greeks who know history are aware that the Greek and Armenian populations in Smyrna were indiscriminately hunted down, raped, tortured , and murdered without mercy by Mustafa Kemal’s soldiers. The Greek textbooks of fifteen years ago attempted to omit the mass slaughter and merely said that the Greeks left Smyrna.

At the time, Archbishop Christodoulos led a mass opposition to the falsification of history in school text books. This was the same charismatic Archbishop who in 2000 led mass demonstrations in opposition to the anti Christian policies of the Socialist Party then in power in Athens. Today, Greek Orthodoxy is led by Patriarch Bartholomew who instigates schisms in Orthodoxy in furtherance of accumulating power, and Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens who has demonstrated he has no back bone to protest anything.

In fairness, it should be recalled that Greece has been under threat by the extreme right as well as the extreme left. For many years, the Neo Nazi Golden Dawn came to dominate neighborhoods in Athens where it proceeded to beat and torture migrants, and to disseminate anti semetic and racist material. Greece has been under a spiritual crisis for some time now.

Golden Dawn however has disappeared from the political scene following its failure to return to Parliament during the last elections. This leaves the extreme left as the sole threat to Christian Greece. Reasonable people can agree that adults should have the right to live as they choose and to undergo any surgery that they like. It is unconscionable however to indoctrinate children into these pagan and anti Christian lifestyles.

Orthodox Christian Greeks are obligated to stand against the Greek Ministry of education as the late Archbishop Christodoulos did. The rainbow flag is the flag of modern paganism. It is incompatible with the blue and and white flag of Greece which displays the Christian cross. Aside from being pagan, the rainbow flag has emerged as the flag of internationalism.

Internationalism is not compatible with the concept and ideals of the nation-state. Every nation is entitled to the preservation of its language, history, culture, borders, and faith. The Greek War of Independence began on March 25, the feast of the Annunciation. The destiny of Greece has been bound with the faith of Christ since the arrival of Saints Paul, Andrew, and John the theologian on Greek territory during the first century.

The imposition of LGBTQ ideology in Greek education will attempt to erase the sacred ties that exist between the Greek nation and Christ our God! This cannot be permitted. The men and women who rose up in 1821 did so in order to establish an independent Greece that would preserve Hellenism and the truth of Orthodox Christianity!