Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:11 PM 12/3/1999 -0500, Dan Cardish wrote: >How on earth can someone not forgive someone else for something that >happened EIGHT HUNDRED YEARS ago? Dan This really doesn't belong on the LUG but, briefly, allow me to note that the Greek Orthodox community feels strongly that there has been a thousand-year pattern of persecution by Latinate Christians, up to the current day and Clinton's Kosovo escapade. (I subscribe to a couple of Greek-centered Classical Language lists, and these are laden with LONG postings detailing every wrong done the Greeks by the Western Europeans. I won't say they make a compelling case, but I will say that we in the West have been most ungracious in recognizing Orthodox sensitivities.) Hence, it isn't a failure to forgive something which occurred 800 years back: it is, to them, a recognition of a cohesive pattern of mistreatment extending over a millenium and still going on today. I really don't want to get off on this on the LUG, but I'll be happy to discuss it off-list with anyone who wishes to do so. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!