Leading priest blames Jews for Greece’s problems

[davidinalameda]

A high-level priest on the morning show of the largest television station in Greece blamed world Jewry for Greece's financial problems.

The Metropolite of Piraeus Seraphim also blamed world Jewry for other ills in the country during his appearance on Mega TV.

Mixing Freemasons with Jewish bankers such as Baron Rothschild and world Zionism, the Metropolite said that there is a conspiracy to enslave Greece and Christian Orthodoxy. He also accused international Zionism of trying to destroy the family unit by promoting one-parent families and same-sex marriages.

Thirteen minutes into the program the Greek host asked the Metropolite, "Why do you disagree with Hitler's policies? If they are doing all this, wasn't he right in burning them?"

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/12/21/2742275/greek-priest-goes-on-anti-semitic-tirade

[DesertFlower]

1. WTF?

[devils chaplain]

2. Again?

The urban legend that spans the centuries.

[sakabatou]

3. If something goes wrong, blame us!

Yeah, always getting the rat's end on a lot of shit.

[coffeenap]

4. Rockefeller?? Um, no. nt

[applegrove]

5. Sick. But good that something this ****ed up hits the world press. At least

it seems this freak will get some pushback.

[Fuzz]

6. Will this shit ever die?

[Behind the Aegis]

8. It won't.

Not as long as assholes like the one in the article (from the right) and assholes (from the left...like in this video) have breath to spew their hate or as long as we, Jews, have breath.

[Codeine]

19. I'm sorry I watched that video.

And to think I've seen people here at DU link to that account before. Fuck. :puke:

[phasma ex machina]

7. Anglo-Amercan banksters rule the world. Their dollar NOT the shekel is the world's reserve currency.

[KharmaTrain]

9. Blaming The Rothschilds???

Didn't this piece of shit ever read any history...ya know about World War II...it was in the papers. Baron Rothschild hasn't been around for 200 years and much of his family's wealth ultimately was expropriated by various countries and regimes. What was left of the Rothschild's "empire" was totally destroyed by the Nazi. Ya think a family so powerful would have let 6 million of their bretheren die?

Typical claptrap of tough times. Instead of looking for solutions, look for scapgoats. And it always works...

[xchrom]

10. He's a paranoid asshole. Nt

[Behind the Aegis]

11. Jews in Greece

"During World War II, Greece was conquered by Nazi Germany and occupied by the Axis powers. 12,898 Greek Jews fought in the Greek army, one of the best-known amongst them being Colonel Mordechai Frizis, in a force which first successfully repelled the Italian Army, but was later overwhelmed by German forces.<8> 86% of the Greek Jews, especially those in the areas occupied by Nazi Germany and Bulgaria, were murdered despite efforts by the Greek Orthodox Church hierarchy and many individual Christian Greeks to shelter Jews. Although the Germans and Bulgarians<18> deported a great number of Greek Jews, others were successfully hidden by their Greek neighbours. source"

"The 275 Jews of the island of Zakynthos, however, survived the Holocaust. When the island's mayor, Carrer, was presented with the German order to hand over a list of Jews, Bishop Chrysostomos returned to the Germans with a list of two names; his and the mayor's. The island's population hid every member of the Jewish community. When the island was almost levelled by the great earthquake of 1953, the first relief came from the state of Israel, with a message that read "The Jews of Zakynthos have never forgotten their Mayor or their beloved Bishop and what they did for us."<3>source"

Too bad this asshole is more like a Nazi than the "Greek Orthodox Church hierarchy and many individual Christian Greeks" who decided Jews were 'worthy' of life.

[craigmatic]

12. This kind of thing always happens when the economy gets bad.

This is in no way the Jews' fault. Greece's economy was probably hollowed out by lack of a manufacturing base and exploited by the international banking system run by the US and other elitists.

[Behind the Aegis]

13. The irony is the "other elitists" are usually "Jews."

From the article:

"Jews such as "Rockefeller, Rothschild and Soros control the international banking system that controls globalization," the Metropolite also said."

[craigmatic]

14. You have to consider the source of it. There's alot of anti-semitism from eastern europe.

The irony is that back in the day they also blamed Jewish people for socialism and communism while saying they controlled the banking system. It can't be both. Still I can't help but feel like this is somehow the US's fault either directly or indirectly.

[Behind the Aegis]

15. The Jews are always a good scapegoat.

As you said, Jews were blamed for socialism and communism at the same time being accused of being capitalists. It was was the same in this country in the '50's and '60's. Race forward to the present, and the same shit is being spewed from the left and right all over the world. Take a look at some of the recent crap and you will see Jews are to blame for the "gay agenda" and the immigration issues. I find it interesting we "control" the media and yet we are the evil ones.

[JVS]

21. Rockefeller?

:rofl:

[phasma ex machina]

20. The Anglo-American banksters who rule the world, Machiavellian masters of misdirection,

excel at scapegoating.

Societal programming goes deep. In "The Merchant of Venice" Shakespeare ignores all of the other bankster villains running around in Venice at that time to cast aspersions solely on "Shylock the Iewe."

How long before this economy creates yet another mass murdering monster?

[LeftishBrit]

16. What a vile man - he seems to combine EVERY known antisemitic conspiracy theory

The Jews (of course) run world finance and cause economic disasters. Rockefeller was a Jew. They want to enslave Christians, and 'international Zionism tries to destroy family values by promoting one-parent families and same-sex marriages'. And one that I hadn't come across: Hitler was a product of world Zionism. I didn't see the one about our using babies' blood to make matzoh, but I probably just wasn't reading carefully enough!

The man is also viciously homophobic; the other time I heard of him was when he took the trouble to write to Queen Elizabeth to demand that she revoke Elton John's knighthood.

Seriously, he comes across as INSANE, and dangerously so. There are bigoted conspiraloons in all walks of life and (it seems) all countries; but this man is scary because, as a high-ranking priest, he has influence. Quite scary.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

17. Because everyone knows orthodox Jews are in favour of one-parent families...

In my view the issue here is not the man's views in themselves so much as the fact that they haven't prevented him becoming a metropolite - every country has its neo-nazis and loonies, but if they're being given high office that's a step more worrying.

"There is a neo-nazi in Greece" is no big deal; "neo-nazis are becoming influential in Greece" potentially is. I have no idea if it's the case, but this is a piece of evidence in its favour.

[sendero]

18. Pathetic scapegoating..

... "wasn't he right in burning them?" - what kind of messed up crap is THAT?

The "priest" had not one fact about this crisis to cite, nothing but isms and nonsense. The origins of the world financial crisis are well known and well understood by anyone who has bothered to investigate them.

The "jews" had nothing to do with it.

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[HEyHEY]

23. Nice to see crazy people are still allowed to by microphones

What a world!