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http://open.salon.com/blog/lost_in_berlin/2010/10/27/the_hitler_icon_how_mount_athos_honored_the_fhrer
How did the monks embrace Nazism? Allying with a political leader hardly classifies as embracing a philosophy.Secular trite said:encountered a religious community that was more than willing to embrace Nazism
I know exactly what they are implying here. :Secular trite said:Mount Athos survived the war nearly untouched, which is more than can be said for the rest of Greece, which lost 11 percent of its population, including virtually all of its Jews.
??? Is there any evidence for this absurd claim? Considering it is from the American media, probably not.Secular trite said:*Banishing the opposite sex from the peninsula might sound like a recipe for boredom, but it appears that the monks knew how to keep busy. According to a Time Magazine article in April 1941, "[a]n alarming number of monks have taken to smoking, alcohol, even narcotics. And the immemorial escape from celibacy has threatened to become a fever sickening the whole 'Great Academy of the Greek Clergy.' The Greek press has stormed about the kidnapping of male children for the monks of Athos, and motorboats carrying male prostitutes are constantly reported chugging into the monastery harbors."
Ioannis Climacus said:This article is a piece of secular trash. The real intent is an attack on the Church. More filth from the anti-Christ media.
Kind of like the Vatican, huh.Iconodule said:This story was already discussed somewhere else. The monks were not Nazis. Mt. Athos actually harbored Jewish families.
The holocaust was not a hoax, Ioannis.
I don't know about the specifics here, but Mt. Athos did suffer a moral decline amongst some of the monks in the late 19th, early 20th centuries. There are other reports of some of the same behaviors. Just because a place is holy does not mean the residents are. See exhibit A, the Holy Land.Ioannis Climacus said:??? Is there any evidence for this absurd claim? Considering it is from the American media, probably not.Secular trite said:*Banishing the opposite sex from the peninsula might sound like a recipe for boredom, but it appears that the monks knew how to keep busy. According to a Time Magazine article in April 1941, "[a]n alarming number of monks have taken to smoking, alcohol, even narcotics. And the immemorial escape from celibacy has threatened to become a fever sickening the whole 'Great Academy of the Greek Clergy.' The Greek press has stormed about the kidnapping of male children for the monks of Athos, and motorboats carrying male prostitutes are constantly reported chugging into the monastery harbors."
I recommend you L'ete grec (The Greek Summer) by Jaques Lacariere where he humorously describes a few instances where monks cornered him for not so celibate purposes and others of the kind. I imagine they felt more free to do that to obviously non-pilgrim Westerners . His travels took place in the late forties and fifties.Quote from: Secular trite
*Banishing the opposite sex from the peninsula might sound like a recipe for boredom, but it appears that the monks knew how to keep busy. According to a Time Magazine article in April 1941, "[a]n alarming number of monks have taken to smoking, alcohol, even narcotics. And the immemorial escape from celibacy has threatened to become a fever sickening the whole 'Great Academy of the Greek Clergy.' The Greek press has stormed about the kidnapping of male children for the monks of Athos, and motorboats carrying male prostitutes are constantly reported chugging into the monastery harbors."
Is there any evidence for this absurd claim? Considering it is from the American media, probably not.
Asteriktos said:http://pressvision.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/hear-no-evil-speak-no-evil-photo.jpg[/imgIoannis Climacus said:This article is a piece of secular trash. The real intent is an attack on the Church. More filth from the anti-Christ media.
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Come on, Asteriktos. There was collaboration, but nothing like what the article implies.