What is happening today in Greece is the result of many factors. First, obviously, we learned nothing from our history. If we turn back to our history we will see that we were constantly at war, revolutions and civil feuds. This occurs because the Greek people are truly united only in the face of great difficulty. The temperament of the Greeks is a major cause of misfortunes that have reached us in historical plan. People today are confused, they have lost their way and they can not understand who they are and where they belong. This is not an excuse for the behavior of modern man, this is fact. I think this confusion in the new generation is to a great extent due to the lack of education and general culture. Schools in Greece do not educate our children any more. We are witnessing strange phenomenon. During the H1N1 outbreak public schools stopped teaching processes while the epidemic ceased. Private schools and care centers, however, continued to work. The logic of the government did not become clear. This is just one example that we alone lead a cats and dogs life as the popular proverb says. We deprived our children from classes without really protecting them from the danger of being exposed to the virus.
The crisis that is not only economic, but also spiritual and moral in the first place. But it is also an opportunity for us to change a lot of our bad habits accumulated over recent years. We lost our moral values. Anyone is looking to take the eye of his fellows. Now is a good time to reconsider our values and to fix it.
Among other things, the Greeks are unfortunately have lost their abilities to stand up for their positions. Today we do everything that Europe tells us to do. Without us there the name Europe would not even exist, as it is of Greek origin. We accept without objecting our sentence today. This probably occurs because the entire Greek nation is complicit in the events of the recent decades. Everybody shares a bit the common guilt for the situation we are in today. Politicians are definitely responsible, but also the citizens who benefited from the vicious system are responsible. If you give me a position in any ministry, without having the necessary education, experience or knowledge just because I'm a friend of the right people, it makes me just as guilty as the politician who appointed me to this place.
The Vatopedi monastery scandal
In its essence this story did not affect so much church circles in the country. Believers who know how the church works were not influenced by the speeches of the media in the country. Those, however, who do not deal with Christianity and the church as a whole found another argument in their fight against it. God will judge who is right and who is not. Inside the church circles do not believe that Ephraim has done anything against the canons to be punished with excommunication. When the abbot Ephraim went to Mount Athos he saw a fissionable monastery. The Church property was worn out over the years, along with the scientific, cultural and spiritual heritage which is kept in it. The fact that he finds funding to restore the property of Mount Athos does not mean that has done anything wrong. The same is also true for the small church, which are building today in Nea Chalkidona. If today someone came and asked us to help with the construction of the temple, we will not give it back. From our ancient history from Byzantine times, church and state are united in one.
The problem is not the fact that management of the monastery found ways to restore the assets of Mount Athos, but that politicians got involved.
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