sam2008
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Feb-15-2002 at 09:36 AM (UTC+3 Nineveh, Assyria) |
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I notice lately, with regret, that many of our so-called Assyrian nationalists - or are they in fact Assyrian fanatics? - attack on a continual basis Christianity (in one form or another) and our Assyrian religious leaders. Have these intelligent people got it so wrong after dealing with the wrong side of our Assyrian politics or is it that they have become addicted to hearing what Moslems have been doing all around the world, and they think that this is heroism? One thing that these people should know and understand and hopefully accept once and for all, is the fact that if it wasn't for Christianity and our Assyrian Church and its leaders, we would've lost our Assyrian language for certain and then lost all sense of Assyrianism. Let me point out that thousands if not millions of Assyrians have converted to Islam once it covered the Middle East. Those (who were Assyrians once) have lost their Assyrian language and identity and have on the whole become the most ardent enemies of Assyrians and Assyrianism. No Assyrian except a Christian one has kept his/her Assyrian language alive together with Assyrian traditions and culture. Who kept teaching the Assyrian language all this time in our ancestral lands other than the clergy and their leaders? No one could, for there were no schools as such, no teachers and no help from anywhere. That's where our Assyrian Christian leaders come in. They kept our language and traditions alive, and that was more than they could do under those harsh conditions. Alright, I know they are only human and as such they will have many flows and make many mistakes, but who doesn't? Only those who actually and really work, make mistakes, the ones who don't work except talk, may not make mistakes. I'm not a religious fanatic by all measures. I don't go to church very often, but I will not ever speak harshly against any of our Assyrian Christian religious leaders, for this, I consider a sort of treason against our Assyrian nation represented by its National Christian Religion. After all, what good does it do to continuously attack and oppose them except to show how we Assyrians do not tolerate anyone within our Assyrian nation and for no reason at all. I also believe that our Assyrian forefathers DID know God and worshipped him long before Christ came to earth, but why use this belief to denigrate our Assyrian religious leaders? It's time that we Assyrian laymen and women use our common sense and Assyrian nationalism and Christian faith to put aside our age-old hatred of those who have worked for us (and themselves as well) for the benefit of all of us (including them), and stop being almost childish in our wrong analysis of the reasons why we Assyrians have reached this intolerable state in our nationhood. There are other reasons, you know, and those reasons are the real essence of our downfall. More on that later.
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