Finding Works by Photios Kontoglou?

[Barbara]

Oh NO ! I have several of his books, those old editions. I never knew what to think about him exactly.
This explains WHY !

What he wrote was PREPOSTEROUS !

I totally agree that the Greeks should NOT have revolted against the Ottomans. They would have been WAY BETTER OFF just working with the Ottomans, who were not evil as depicted so often.

Greece would be stronger today.

Remember how Lord Byron was wildly romanticized by the British for traveling to Greece to help this revolt ?

Things like that contributed to that false image of a 'sacred revolution', at least from a Western viewpoint.

Byron actually died there, in Missolonghi, Greece, of fever. Certainly a BAD sign for the "holy war". I just looked up the date : April 19, 1824.

What a waste !

[Cyprian]

Confronting Greeks and challenging them to reconsider the motives, question the actions, as well as recognize the detrimental ramifications of the revolt against the Ottoman Turks, in addition to their ill-advised celebrations of Greek Independence Day, is akin to challenging Americans to question their thoughtless celebrations of the Fourth of July.

It's not going to be well received. It is tantamount to heresy, to dare to question the established dogma. Even the old calendarist Greeks also join in the celebrations along with the new calendarists.

I noticed Constantine Cavarnos, in his 'Modern Orthodox Saints Vol. 15: Saint Athanasios Parios,' completely passes over, neglecting to mention the saint's outspoken entreaties to the Christians of the Balkans not to revolt against the Turks. He lost my respect when he covered up the saint's teachings.

It has been drummed into our heads that revolution, waged in the name of a political "freedom" of the body, is virtuous and good. What the revolutionaries really desire, is the freedom to indulge their passions and sinful desires unhindered, rather than waging a struggle in the freedom of the soul from enslavement to sin, which is what the Fathers champion.

The notorious ecumenist Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens, back in 2002, even proposed to the Synod that all fighters in the revolution against the Turkish yoke should be canonized. The Synod did not accept his proposal, but one can observe to what heights of delirium one can get carried away, when one succumbs to the passion of super-patriotism or egoistic chauvinism.

Even more problematic, is that the Greeks, who want the world to recognize the supposed virtues and rightness of their revolution, in turn feel the obligation to recognize the revolutions of others. After all, it would come off as hypocritical if the Greeks championed revolution only for themselves, but not for others.

So, Greek leaders send congratulations, or even participate in, celebrations of the bloody and atheistic French Revolution, for example.

Putin many times has sent the French congratulations on Bastille Day as well, showing he is not all that different than any other atheistic Western leader.