You're going to have to explain your post then
Complete the quote: "and embrace Islam." That's what so many Orthodox did. That's why there are so many "Turks" who look like Greeks.
Complete the quote: "and embrace Islam." That's what so many Orthodox did. That's why there are so many "Turks" who look like Greeks.
In response to my goading him for using Lukas Notaras' infamous phrase: "better the turban of the Sultan, than the tiara of the Pope!" TexConfederate1861 wrote:
"I prefer, like my forefathers to reject heresy."
So I needled him with the above. His use of the quote is he would rather see Byzantine Christendom destroyed than have it subject to the Pope. So I completed the quote and thought again for him.
Its not "hatred of the Greeks" to observe that many of them converted to Islam, some voluntarily, many more not so voluntarily, thanks to Jannissary Laws and White Slavery. But lets go back to the cause of this - the rejection by the Greek people of all western aid in preference for Muslim subjugation to the slightest whiff of union with Rome.
TexConfederate1861 line can essentially be restated to modern English: "Better slaves of Islam than subjects of Roman Catholicism."
I deplore this attitude. First, in making Catholics heretics, when the Catholic and Orthodox heirarchies describe our seperation as a schism, not a heretical cleaving. Second, the preference for Islam to Christianity, when the attitude of Islam for 1400 years has been to seek the utter annhilation and extermination of Christianity in all lands that it controls, a project which has suceeded in modern Turkey, Algeria, Arabia, Tunisia, Central Asia, Iran, and elsewhere.
At a time when a Holy War brews in Sudan and Chechnya between Catholic and Orthodox Christians respectively on the one hand, and Muslims on the other, the slightest extension of sympathy to this line of thought is to be thoroughly deplored.