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Related: About this forumGreek Bishop Says 'Zionist Monster' Behind Same-sex Marriage Bill
A leading Greek Bishop has blamed the Zionist Monster for new legislation that would give same-sex couples in Greece expanded civil rights in a statement published on the website of the Metropolis of Piraeus.
Bishop Seraphim of Piraeus said the Cohabitation Bill is a result of the constant war against the true faith being waged by the International Zionist Monster, which he said controls the Greek government.
In the statement issued last week, the Bishop also threatened to cut off relations with any Greek lawmaker who supports the bill when it comes to a vote on Tuesday, saying the bill subverts human sexuality and is destroying the traditional family unit.
The Bishop has a long history of making anti-Semitic comments. In 2010, he told a Greek TV station that Jews had orchestrated the Holocaust and were behind Greeces financial crisis. He later clarified that these were his personal opinions and did not represent the Church of Greece....
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/1.693050
(This particular individual is notorious for both anti-Semitism and homophobia - now he's found a way of combining the two!)
shenmue
(38,506 posts)I would just like to remind the feller of a Jesus thing:
John 13:34-35 A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.
Duh.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Romans 1 - discussing who the wrath of god is directed at:
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
The problem with your book is that one can find justification for just about any position on any issue. It is about as useful as astrology.
LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)the Commandment which is made clear in the Bible for religious Jews and Christians, and is good moral advice for just about anyone: 'Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour'.
safeinOhio
(32,695 posts)there are only about 4,000 different "true religions" in the world today.
Behind the Aegis
(53,962 posts)But, usually if they hate one group, they hate other groups too. I must say it is one the rare occasions where I have seen "Zionists" (wink, wink) blamed for GLBT rights.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)were behind capitalism and communism, so why can't they be behind LGBT rights?
I mean, let's face it, the "Zionists" (wink,wink) have for the past 2000 odd years been the multi-purpose bogey-people. It boggles the mind, really.
So much for that good ol' "God is Love" stuff
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)And the fundy christians here are rabid homophobes and have this disturbing love affair with Israel and the jews living there, as they believe that arrangement is fulfilling prophecy that will bring about the end of the world and the return of their man-god.
Behind the Aegis
(53,962 posts)Fundies of every stripe have a homophobia problem. And, while it is true, fundy Christians love them some Israel, they do not love the Jews and are often quite anti-Semitic. Too many think a "love" for Israel is a "love" for Jews; it isn't.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)So the world will become ground zero in a bunfight between God and Satan... which they believe they will watch from the ringside seats in heaven.
They do not love the Jews and they do not love those who do not belong to the flavour of Christian they are.
Oh yes, they are Christian, without quotation marks.
LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)(who mostly hate each other's guts) will unite, is on the occasion of a Gay Pride event or similar: they ALL agree on hating the gays.