Oracle wrote:Paphitis wrote:Oracle wrote:If you look deeply, you will see how it is the GO church which continued the teachings of the ancient Greek philosophers and how it has sought to preserve the direct lines from these ideas. Paganism was being redefined by many Hellenistic philosophers hundreds of years before "Jesus". Socrates was accused of atheism (as well as corrupting the youth).
Ancient Greeks were famous for their liberalism, democracy and free thought, until the GO Church came along and destroyed everything!!
That's because you don't know enough about either to possibly judge accordingly. It is your own limitations which you exhibit when making such statements! Could the GO church have produced such a democracy-seeking intellectual and heroic figure as Makarios if it suffered from the constraints you suggest? No! The failures are with you and not the GO Church!
I hate to say this, but I firmly believe that it was figures such as Makarios and Grivas, that have contributed to the destruction of Cyprus, no matter how heroic you we may think they are. You see, Makarios was never an adequate politician in my view, and there were many blunders made. The signing of the undemocratic Zurich Agreement is a good example.
Sorry, but your post is very flawed.
Perhaps it is your political naivety or bias which forces you to make stupid posts like this, but then you have the audacity to talk about 'limitations' elsewhere. You need to study Cypriot history from a non emotional plane to figure things out.
