Posted on 08/26/2019 7:22:48 PM PDT by marshmallow
A hierarch of the Cypriot Orthodox Church has found himself in trouble after statements he made in June on the origin of homosexuality became public recently.
The Nicosia Police have even launched an investigation into the supposed “hate speech” by request of the attorney general and announced that they will be taking a statement from His Eminence Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou, whose statements have caused quite a stir in the media both in Cyprus and internationally.
The commotion began after video surfaced in which Met. Neophytos told the story of a young man who gave up his sinful, homosexual lifestyle after being rebuked by a monk to whom God revealed the man’s sin. When the young man asked how the monk knew of his sinful acts, the monk replied that his sins emitted a foul stench.
As is to be expected, the media widely misunderstood that the bishop was speaking in a spiritual sense, not claiming that homosexual men literally have poor physical hygiene. Such stories are common in ascetic literature. Another roughly contemporary example comes from the life of Elder Joseph the Hesychast, who understood that a certain man had made a grave error in writing a book in support of evolution because he emitted a foul spiritual stench (from the book My Elder Joseph the Hesychast by Elder Ephraim).
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Bet they wouldn’t do this on the Turkish half of the island.
TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH. You are forbidden to speak truthfully about the “protected”.
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