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16. RE: Assyrianism

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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Assyria \ã-'sir-é-ä\ n (1998)   1:  an ancient empire of Ashur   2:  a democratic state in Bet-Nahren, Assyria (northern Iraq, northwestern Iran, southeastern Turkey and eastern Syria.)   3:  a democratic state that fosters the social and political rights to all of its inhabitants irrespective of their religion, race, or gender   4:  a democratic state that believes in the freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture in faithfulness to the principles of the United Nations Charter — Atour synonym

Ethnicity, Religion, Language
» Israeli, Jewish, Hebrew
» Assyrian, Christian, Aramaic
» Saudi Arabian, Muslim, Arabic
Assyrian \ã-'sir-é-an\ adj or n (1998)   1:  descendants of the ancient empire of Ashur   2:  the Assyrians, although representing but one single nation as the direct heirs of the ancient Assyrian Empire, are now doctrinally divided, inter sese, into five principle ecclesiastically designated religious sects with their corresponding hierarchies and distinct church governments, namely, Church of the East, Chaldean, Maronite, Syriac Orthodox and Syriac Catholic.  These formal divisions had their origin in the 5th century of the Christian Era.  No one can coherently understand the Assyrians as a whole until he can distinguish that which is religion or church from that which is nation -- a matter which is particularly difficult for the people from the western world to understand; for in the East, by force of circumstances beyond their control, religion has been made, from time immemorial, virtually into a criterion of nationality.   3:  the Assyrians have been referred to as Aramaean, Aramaye, Ashuraya, Ashureen, Ashuri, Ashuroyo, Assyrio-Chaldean, Aturaya, Chaldean, Chaldo, ChaldoAssyrian, ChaldoAssyrio, Jacobite, Kaldany, Kaldu, Kasdu, Malabar, Maronite, Maronaya, Nestorian, Nestornaye, Oromoye, Suraya, Syriac, Syrian, Syriani, Suryoye, Suryoyo and Telkeffee. — Assyrianism verb

Aramaic \ar-é-'máik\ n (1998)   1:  a Semitic language which became the lingua franca of the Middle East during the ancient Assyrian empire.   2:  has been referred to as Neo-Aramaic, Neo-Syriac, Classical Syriac, Syriac, Suryoyo, Swadaya and Turoyo.

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