{"id":12028,"date":"2011-01-02T16:53:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T23:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=12028"},"modified":"2011-01-02T16:53:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T23:53:44","slug":"greek-bishop-equates-zionism-to-satanism-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=12028","title":{"rendered":"Greek Bishop Equates Zionism to 'Satanism' – NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not quite up to typing a full-fledged post yet, though I will be soon. Still, I couldn’t resist posting a link to this piece on The Lede<\/a>, by Robert Mackey.<\/p>\n

Greek Bishop Equates Zionism to ‘Satanism’ – NYTimes.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The bishop, known as Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus<\/a>, said during an interview on Greek television<\/a> on Monday that Jews \u201ccontrol the international banking system.\u201d He added: \u201cAdolf Hitler was an instrument of world Zionism and was financed from the renowned Rothschild family with the sole purpose of convincing the Jews to leave the shores of Europe and go to Israel to establish the new Empire.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In response to the outrage his statements caused, the bishop issued a statement, which Mackey quotes in full:<\/p>\n

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December 23, 2010<\/p>\n

On the occasion of the concerns raised by the European Jewish Congress with regard to my interview with the MEGA television channel on December 20, I have to say the following:<\/p>\n

1. The things I said during my television appearance on the show \u201cSociety Hour Mega\u201d are strictly my personal views and opinions, which I have repeatedly expressed\u2026 verbally and in writing.<\/p>\n

2. I respect, revere and love the Jewish people like any other people of our world according to the teaching of the incarnated Son of God and the true Messiah the Lord Jesus Christ the Savior and Redeemer, who was heralded by all the Prophets and was incarnated through the Jewish nation.<\/p>\n

3. My public vehement opposition against International Zionism refers to the organ that is the successor of the \u201cSanhedrin\u201d which altered the faith of the Patriarchs, the Prophets and the Righteous of the Jewish nation through the Talmud, the Rabbinical writings and the Kabbalah into Satanism, and always strives vigorously toward an economic empire set up throughout the world with headquarters in the great land beyond the Atlantic for the prevalence of world government and pan-religion.<\/p>\n

4. I consider like any sane person on the planet the Nazi regime and the paranoid dictator Adolf Hitler as horrible criminals against humanity and take a stand with all honor and respect against the Jewish Holocaust and any other heinous genocide such as that of the Pontic Greek and Armenian people. Besides, the Greek nation mourns thousands of martyrs from the criminal Nazi atrocities.<\/p>\n

+ The Metropolitan of Piraeus, Seraphim<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On the one hand, I am not surprised; on the other hand, the whole thing leaves me speechless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am not quite up to typing a full-fledged post yet, though I will be soon. Still, I couldn’t resist posting a link to this piece on The Lede, by Robert Mackey. Greek Bishop Equates Zionism to ‘Satanism’ – NYTimes.com: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-semitism","category-jews-and-judaism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}