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Brawl In California

There was a brawl in Los Angeles involving Armenian and Hispanic parents vs trans activists and Antifa this week. The issue was that the Armenian and Hispanic parents do not want their children learning about transgenderism. The parents were denounced as “fascists”.

Antifa showed up for the brawl. We live in a sick country where far left radicals seem to believe they have the right to indoctrinate other people’s children with sexually explicit material. The bigger problem is the way the media is covering this issue.

Reports refer to the parents as being anti LGBT. The media makes no attempt to comprehend the position of the parents. This lack of empathy by the media and the Democratic Party demonizes ordinary people who simply want their children left alone.

One school teacher insulted the Armenians by diminishing the Armenian Genocide. These are the lunatics who are teaching in schools. What is happening is truly horrifying.

The trans activists have the support of the media and the Democratic Party. Conservatives accurately accuse them of grooming kids. What is happening to America is insane. Voices must be raised to speak to reverse this madness.

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The State Of The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese

Earlier this year, a Russian Orthodox player for the Philadelphia Flyers was widely condemned by ESPN and various pro LGBT groups for refusing to wear the rainbow on his uniform. In the past, various Evangelical and other Christians in professional sports have refused to display the rainbow. The first commandment teaches us to have no gods except the true God who for Christians is the holy Trinity.

We are commanded to reject idols or to make offerings to pagan gods. Church history is full of martyrs and saints who confessed their faith in Christ at the expense of their lives. The rainbow has now become an idol where Christians are being told to wear it, even if it conflicts with their faith. This is not only a violation of religious freedom, but a violation of the right to freedom of conscience.

Much is happening as the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese is preparing to serve a liturgy in an Episcipal Cathedral on June 10. The Episcopalians were woke long before there was any such thing as woke. Gay marriage and transgenderism were embraced by this sect decades ago. The Episcopalians have not been Christians for a long time.

Yet, Archbishop Elpidophoros will serve the liturgy in an Episcopalian Cathedral which are full of rainbow flags, oblivious to the growing Anti Christian hatred being espoused by the LGBT movement. It should be stated that the Archbishop and the Patriarch have refused to condemn the persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. But the Archbishop will serve liturgy in a “church” that is in effect a pagan temple.

Meanwhile, the LA Dodgers have embraced an infamous group of drag queens that openly desecrate the cross and have profaned Christ and the Mother of God in unspeakable ways. They will honor them on June 16. The political establishment in California has embraced this notorious group. No one on the political left had condemned the anti Catholic group or the blasphemous activities it engages in.

This says everything about the Archbishop and the pathetic state of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese. Those who serve at the Atchdiocese in New York are out of touch with reality and with their own faithful. No wonder the faithful are leaving. The Archdiocese is complicit in scandal after scandal and is completely indifferent to the moral crisis in the country and society in which they live.

The LGBT movement has established an influence over the schools, the medical profession, and many politicians including the President. Teenage girls have been persuaded they are “trans”. They have gotten mastectomies and others have has hysterectomies. This is known because conservative media such as National Review and others such as journalist Abigail Shrier have reported on the horrific crimes being perpetrated against children.

What does Christ tell us to do?Are Christians to join the new pagans as the Archbishop seems to be doing? The LGBT movement is gaining strength and its hostility to ALL Christians is unmistakable. Tragically, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese is morally and spiritually bankrupt at a time when the Church must raise its voice.

Today, the Roman Catholics and the Evangelicals. Does anyone think Orthodox Christians won’t come under similar attack? In 1965, Archbishop Iakovos stuck his neck out and went to Alabama to March with Martin Luther King. Contrast the two Archbishops.

This blogger had no desire to get involved in the cultural wars. But considering the rising hostility to the Christian faith and the grooming and mutilation of children, protests must be made.

Unfortunately, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese will not lead. Archbishop Elpidophoros must be deposed. That is a necessary first step in preparing for the tough challenges ahead.

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Letters

Letter To NPR

The following is in response to the June 1 news report, “Russian involvement on Mount Athos etc” (June 1). As a Greek American, I wish to dispute the anti Russian allegations in the News Report. First, Mount Athos is a holy mountain dedication of a life of prayer, fasting, and asceticism”. It is a holy place that should not be dragged into politics. 

The Russians have had a presence on Mount Athos for one thousand years. It is racist and discriminatory to suggest that the Russians concern themselves withthe holy mountain for any reasons that are not religious. Mount Athos has a Serbian and a Bulgarian Monastery as well as a Russian Monastery. Furthermore, there are Sketes which include monks from Georgia and Rumania as well. There are also converts to Orthodoxy who are American, Australian, and European who live on the holy Mountain in pursuit of spiritual pursuits. 

Perhaps National Public Radio can do reports on the persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (distinct from the western established “Orthodox Church of Ukraine)”. Ukrainian Orthodox Christians under the canonical Church in Ukraine are being evicted from their Monasteries and Churches, and are being violently persecuted merely because they are under the spiritual (and NOT political) leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church. The anti Russian clerics cited in this news report have conflicts of interest. 

They are associated with Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople who started an inter Orthodox war by recognizing an illegitimate and pseudo Church in Ukraine for the purpose of overthrowing Orthodox canon law and expanding his own authority. Orthodox Christians do not appreciate the politicization of our holy Church which has been carried out by the Americans, and not the the Russians. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo travelled to Greece in 2019 to ask the cowardly Archbishop of Athens to recognize the illegitimate “church” in Ukraine.

Pompeo had no business making that request and the bishops of the Church of Greece had no business recognizing a fake “church” which does not fulfill the criteria under Orthodox canon law to be considered a real Church. The real scandal in Eastern Orthodoxy has to do with the American government’s blatant interference in the spiritual life of Orthodoxy in pursuit of their geo strategic aims.

This news report about the Russians on Mount Athos is dishonest propaganda. 

Theodore Karakostas

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political

Former Greek Foreign Minister Passes

Former Greek Foreign Minister Theodore Pangalos passed away at eighty four years old. He served under Prime Minister Costas Simitis. Pangalos will be associated with bringing Greece back under Washington’s strict influence.

He will be associated with the turnover of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan to the Turks and reversing Greece’s hitherto pro Serbian stance in the balkans. As Christians, we pray for the memories of those who repose.

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Letters

Letter To Congressman


The following letter is in intended to convey my profound concern for the well being of Armenia which faces constant threats from the dictatorship in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan is threatening to attack the Armenians who control Nagorno-Karabakh in which a majority of ethnic Armenians reside. The United States must ensure that Azerbaijan does not attack the peaceful Republic of Armenia.

Azerbaijan is a brutal jihadist regime serving as the puppet of a hostile Turkey and has collaborated with elements of Al Quada. The government in Baku has made threats to 
Armenia that are genocidal. Azerbaijan must be told in no uncertain terms that it will face strong punishment in the event of an attack on Armenia. Azerbaijan should be 
considered as hostile to the United States. 

The United States has a chance to show that it supports democracy. There is no media championing the righteousness of the Armenians. The Armenians are very real freedom fighters facing an existential threat. The United States should support Armenia because it is the morally correct thing to do. There must never be a repetition of the Armenian
Genocide.Never again! 

Theodore Karakostas

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The Turkish Elections

President Erdogan of Turkey appears to have been re-elected President. Technically, this is not good for Greece and Cyprus. Erdogan’s threats to invade the Greek islands remain a concern.

The rise of Islam and the downfall of the Kemalist establishment in Turkey put enormous strain on Turkish relations with America and Europe, but did not bring about a complete break. This is a tremendous disappointment as the west still refuses to see Turkey as an enemy. On the other hand, the restoration of Kemalist rule in Turkey would repair Turkish relations with the west. At least with Erdogan, tensions remain.

Kemal Kilikdaroglu is more dangerous than Erdogan. He opposed Erdogan from the right and from the left. From the right, he denounced Erdogan as soft for not ending the Greek “0ccupation” of the islands. From the left, because he is a secularist and this appeals not only to American and European leaders, but to many Turkish secularists. Technically, he would probably have been less of an authoritarian than Erdogan.

But then this is a lethal mix that is more threatening to Greece, Cyprus, and Armenia. The image of a westernized Turkey did the Christians enormous harm throughout the twentieth century. Kemal the mass murderer was pro western. Adnan Menderes and Bulent Ecevit were westernized and received support from the west.

In order to maintain Turkey as a western ally, the Greeks and the Armenians were repeatedly sacrificed. Erdogan should not make us forget the previous eras when Turkey was repeatedly praised as a democracy despite its history of genocide and external acts of aggression. There really was a no win situation here.

Even so, Kilicdaroglu was the greater threat over the long term. Erdogan will probably continue to be a threat, but there will be advantages in the fact that he is unstable and unlikely to fully repair the breach with the west and Russia. Throughout his long tenure, Erdogan nearly started wars with Israel, Russia, and the United States.

This at least gives us hope that a final breach with the west is possible. A Kemalist restoration would make Turkey invincible. It would have shown that Turkey had strayed for twenty years but came back again because westernization had been too entrenched. No, the defeat of Kemalism is a good thing and the elections may show over the long term that the Turkey the west supported for decades is not coming back.

On this basis, the Turkish election results are good news.

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Letters

Letter To The Dodgers

Dodgers. 


As a Greek Orthodox Christian, I wish to condemn the anti Roman Catholic policies of the Dodgers baseball organization and to express solidarity as a fellow Christian with the Roman Catholic community. The decision of the Dodgers to re invite the bogus “nuns” to participate in “pride” night is in fact a cowardly and despicable decision that reflects poorly on the ethics of the Dodgers organization. In a democratic society such as ours (which appears to be crumbling) civility is an important factor for good relations of communities of different faiths (and no faiths). 

Permitting a group of men to ridicule the Roman Catholic Church at a baseball game is an attack on civility and the very concept of tolerance. Contrary to the propaganda put fourth by the LGBT activists, tolerance is not their goal. These activists are profoundly aggressive, obnoxious and highly intolerant of anyone they disagree with. Indeed, holding a night for a “pride” event is in itself highly questionable. Trans activists have made very clear that they desire to groom children and to impose their 
views in public schools and elsewhere even at the expense of what parents wish to teach their children. 

As a believing Christian, I have become disturbed by the increasing numbers of boys and girls who have been subject to taking hormone pills and puberty blockers. Many teenage girls have undergone mastectomies only to regret it later. There are serious moral implications in sports franchises celebrating the trans ideology and the wicked flag that the LGBT activists display. 

The deliberate and willful ridicule of the Roman Catholic Church that the Dodgers organization now officially endorses is not a display of tolerance or courage. It is a display of moral cowardice and an abdication of moral responsibility for American society. The Roman Catholic is not liked by the official establishment (media, entertainment industry) and there is a good deal of anti Christian sentiment among these institutions, of which the Roman Catholic Church is clearly the favorite target of the establishment. It is cowardice to attack an institution that is out of favor with powerful politicians and political and social activists. The Dodgers organization is merely piling on by joining the legion of anti Catholic bullies. 

The officials of the Dodgers organization who reversed their decision and will permit the trans radicals to mock the Roman Catholic Church have no moral backbone or principals. Last century in America, the eugenics movement was once popular and resulted in thousands of Americans being sterilized without their consent. The Roman Catholic Bishops played a decisive and leading role in stopping that abomination. 

The trans movement today which is targeting children will one day be looked upon with horror as the eugenics movement is today. The Dodgers and Major League Baseball will be judged harshly by history. As a Greek Orthodox Christian, I stand with the Roman Catholic community and condemn the Dodgers and Major League Baseball for promoting religious hatred and bigotry.

Theodore Karakostas
Boston, Ma 
former baseball fan

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The Dodgers

June is going to be “pride month”. Baseball teams are going to have “pride” nights. The Los Angeles Dodgers are among them. The Dodgers invited a group of “trans” men who dress up like Roman Catholic nuns and mock Catholicism, and Eastern Christianity by extension.

When the Roman Catholic Church and its institutions protested, the Dodgers disinvited the trans “nuns”. There was no real apology from the Dodgers whose disrespect for the sacred was apparent by its public statement. After the LGBT activists complained, the cowards in the Dodgers organization re invited the lunatic group and even apologized for disinviting them.

This demonstrates two things. The trans activists have become powerful enough to exert their influence over professional sports and corporations. The second point is that the people who run sports franchises, corporations, and the media have no soul or consciences. The trans activists have taken control.

Orthodox Christians must stand in solidarity with the Roman Catholics. The cultural war we are in must not be lost. Orthodox Christians must join the fight.

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Letter to National Public Radio

The following letter is in response to the May 16 news report, “What Turkey’s Presidential election could mean for the US and Europe”. The report totally ignores Turkey’s aggressive designs toward Greece, ongoing occupation of the Republic of Cyprus, and support for the murderous and genocidal regime in Azerbaijan which has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity against ethnic Armenians.The elections in Turkey are not the casual elections of a normal democratic country.

They are the elections in a country dominated by extreme right fascist-Islamist, and fascist-racist parties. The top two contenders for the Presidency in Turkey are both extremists bent on war toward neighboring Greece. President Erdogan has repeatedly threatened to invade the Greek islands. His opponent, Kemal Kiridaloglu has considered war monger Erdogan to have been too soft on Greece. NPR’s coverage of Turkey is typical of western media outlets who are soft on Turkey and completely indifferent to the victims of Turkish aggression and expansionism.

The Greek islands that both candidates in Turkey’s elections openly covet are populated one hundred percent by ethnic Greeks. Turkish demands that Greece either demilitarize the islands (totally unmentioned in this bogus news report) or face invasion are threats to commit genocide. Turkey’s Azerbaijani allies have demonstrated very effectively what Turkish leaders are capable of. The western alliance as a whole is complicit in the massacres and ethnic cleansing of Armenians because they have not condemned Turkish atrocities and they continue to treat Turkey like a normal country.

Greeks can expect the same in the event that Turkey invades the Greek islands. Both Turkish leaders are psychopaths who crave a greater Turkey. The major difference between them is that Erdogan is a fanatical jihadist (his regimes longs standing support for ISIS and Al quada is another fact completely unmentioned in the news report) whereas Kiridaloglu is an old line supporter of the Turkish Republic’s founder Mustafa Kemal. Kemal was the murderous dictator who slaughtered every Greek and Armenian in Anatolia in order to achieve a racially pure state. 

Your coverage of events in Turkey is condemnable.

Theodore Karakostas
Boston

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political

The Turkish Elections

On the face of it, the Turkish elections were a no win situation for Greece and Turkey. The two top candidates are fanatical extremists. President Erdogan dreams of the revival of the Ottoman Empire and had threatened to invade the Greek islands.

His challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu is a fanatical remnant of the Kemalist regime. His Republican People’s Party was founded by mass murderer Mustafa Kemal and was also led by Bukent Ecevit who ordered the invasions of Cyprus in 1974. Kilicdaroglu has criticized Erdogan for not invading and seizing the Greek islands.

The western media has demonstrated its traditional anti Greek bias by failing to note how extreme Kilicdaroglu is. If this man wins the run of election, Turkey could revert back to the Kemalist era. This means the restoration of warm ties between Turkey and the west.

Even under Erdogan, the west failed to back Greece and Cyprus so the situation is uncertain. It appears Erdogan manly be the lesser of two evils at this point. A restoration of Kemalist rule is the equivalent of a Nazi return in Germany.

Time will tell what will happen but Greece must prepare for the worst no matter who wins the elections in Turkey. Greece has to reverse its stance on Ukraine and adopt a neutral stance. Greece must improve relations with Russia

Greece’s blindly pro western stance has not been beneficial. The Turkish threat subsided after Greeks provided Turkey with aid following a devastating earthquake. Greece for the short term may be better off with Erdogan. Over the long term, it is hard to say what could happen.