27-Year Old In Greece Arrested For Blaspheming A Monk On Facebook

[2ndAmForComputers]

This... happened.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/387369/20120924/elder-paisios-geron-pastitsios-greece-blasphemy-orthodox.htm

A 27-year-old man was arrested in Greece for blasphemy against famous Greek monk, Elder Paisios, Business Insider reported.

Paisios, an Orthodox monk from Cappadocia who died in 1994, was highly venerated in Greece and Russia, and formal canonisation as saint in the near future has been speculated.

The unnamed suspect set up a Facebook page using the mocking name Geron Pastitsios, which is a Greek pasta dish.

The arrest was agitated by neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, according to some Twitter users.

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1. Yes, at the behest of Nazis.

[2ndAmForComputers]

2. Nazis? Oh, sorry, I will self-delete this thread because this has nothing to do with religion then.

Not.

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3. It has more to do with Nazis.

And is far more serious than this nonsense about a monk.

http://www.salon.com/2012/09/24/greek_neo_nazi_party_sets_up_ny_office/

[2ndAmForComputers]

5. I get it. Hateful things done by Nazis are serious.

Except if it's against atheists, in which case, fuck them.

[rug]

6. No, you don't get it.

[cbayer]

4. They need to take a look at those archaic laws they have on the books, particularly since they

have rabid neo-nazi hate groups in the parliament.

[Donowitz]

7. This is disturbing news. Nazis in control and blasphemy laws

I didn't know Greece was located in Pakistan (sarcasm)

But joking aside they really are the two sides of the coin... christianity and islam... Golden Dawn is the white-supremacist,xtian version of the Taliban. lets hope they dont start stoning and beheading people in Greece too.

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8. And Hellenic Neopaganism is the flip side of what?

In the 1980s, the party embraced Hellenic Neopagan beliefs, writing in praise of the Twelve Olympians and describing Marxism and liberalism as "the ideological carriers of Judeo-Christianity."[25] Later the party underwent ideological changes, also welcoming Greek Orthodox Christianity.[26] Today, the party's official stance on religion is that the Byzantine Empire protected Hellenism and the ancient Greek pagan spirit, resulting in that the Greek Orthodox Christianity captured and keeps the indigenous spirituality of the Greeks alive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dawn_(Greece)

I hope you realize these cretins have as much use for - any - religion as the NSDAP did, a means for distilling nationalism.

[Donowitz]

9. Well yeah I realiz that

Also the Nazis dabbled in Germanic Paganism as a vehicle for expressing nationalism but officially remained Christian to get the support of the people.