Anthimos Quotes
The devil has devised in the present century another artifice and preeminent deception, namely the much-vaunted system of liberty. Everywhere this illusory system of the diabolical one has led to poverty, murder, damage, rapine, complete ungodliness, spiritual destruction and vain repentance.
The Eastern Orthodox church fathers were, like most Christian sects at the time, very wary and suspicious of freedom and liberty.
Anthimos, ?-1808, Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Jeruselem, Paternal Exhortation, 1798
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Sapho, a play, opened in New York taking sexual explicitness to a new level. The hero, leaves the stage carrying the famous actress, Olga Nethersole, upstairs to an unseen bedroom presumably for sex. There was no explicit sex but the “immorality” lay in the fact that a woman was portrayed as a sexual being at a time when most “expert thinking” held that women were devoid of sexual pleasure. The New York City vice squad, responding to the many complaints, closed the show, causing national controversy which exploded further when the courts ruled that sexual innuendo was insufficient to censor the show and it re-opened.
The Jews were the first people in the Middle East who were known to the early Muslims who as a rule did not change their religions and convert to Islam. For the Fundamentalist Muslim like Khomeini, Jews espousing their religion is propaganda in as much as it differs from their view of the word of God. While the Jews did not all accept Islam, they did not physically attack the new Muslims the way the Christians did in the Crusades which have been a traumatic memory for Muslims of the Middle East. The particular enmity for the Bhai stems from the fact that this religion was an outgrowth of Islam. Christians and Jews never accepted Islam. Bhai repudiated it and changed, hence are more Satanic. Many Bhai are executed as apostates in Iran and some other countries.
