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[Get Real!]

Not even Greece existed prior to the early 1800s let alone a Greek church!

And there are no known Greek disciples of Christianity because they were well known idolaters and continued to be so for a very long time well into the first millennium AD.

Of course, location had a lot to do with it because Greece was too far away from the religious “action” whereas Cyprus is right next to the Holy land.

By the time a "Greece" was manufactured in the early 1800s there were some 2 million Ottoman turncoats and 2 million odd mixed Albanians, Slavs, gypsies, and others to form the modern “Greece” that you know of today!

[Sotos]

What you say about Greeks can be said about nearly ALL other ethnic groups. Didn't the Turks, Slavs, English, French, Russians etc etc mix with many others since the time they were first created? And people have been mixing in Cyprus as well... that mix is mostly Greeks but of course there are many others .... but hardly any Chirokitians, because those went extinct long time ago.

[Oceanside50]

What you say about Greeks can be said about nearly ALL other ethnic groups. Didn't the Turks, Slavs, English, French, Russians etc etc mix with many others since the time they were first created? And people have been mixing in Cyprus as well... that mix is mostly Greeks but of course there are many others .... but hardly any Chirokitians, because those went extinct long time ago.

Bravo pale re Sotiri..

[DrCyprus]

Not even Greece existed prior to the early 1800s let alone a Greek church!

So, first you accuse the Greek nation of not officially converting to Christianity until 1833, and call them Pagan imbeciles. (A gross inaccuracy) Then, one post later, you claim that the Greeks never existed and that they are just a bunch of Albanians, Slabs, Turks and Gupsys who have been lied to. (low grade F.Y.R.O.M propaganda)

The only rational observation to be made in this thread is that you are just good at flopping around like a fish out of water. You are out of your depth, and the sooner you shut up the more of your precious (stupid innacurate) beliefs you'll be able to salvage from the light of reason.

Of course there were Churches all over the Greek peninsula. Their central authority was the Ecumenical Patriarchy of Constantinople. The autocefaly status was given to them in 1833 as a political necessity. The Cypriot church exchanged the sacrosanct bones of our saints to receive the autocefaly status. We basically sold the bones of our own saints to the Byzantine emperor to gain religious independence from Antioch.

[Get Real!]

Not even Greece existed prior to the early 1800s let alone a Greek church!

So, first you accuse the Greek nation of not officially converting to Christianity until 1833, and call them Pagan imbeciles. (A gross inaccuracy) Then, one post later, you claim that the Greeks never existed and that they are just a bunch of Albanians, Slabs, Turks and Gupsys who have been lied to. (low grade F.Y.R.O.M propaganda)

The only rational observation to be made in this thread is that you are just good at flopping around like a fish out of water. You are out of your depth, and the sooner you shut up the more of your precious (stupid innacurate) beliefs you'll be able to salvage from the light of reason.

Of course there were Churches all over the Greek peninsula. Their central authority was the Ecumenical Patriarchy of Constantinople. The autocefaly status was given to them in 1833 as a political necessity. The Cypriot church exchanged the sacrosanct bones of our saints to receive the autocefaly status. We basically sold the bones of our own saints to the Byzantine emperor to gain religious independence from Antioch.

You are overly concerned about Balkan giftous which have been nothing but a nuisance to Cyprus for the last 100 odd years (starting with the octovriana they instigated).

Our concern should be for Cyprus, not Greece or Turkey so get your priorities in order or this land will suffer more consequences.

The sooner you all snap out of your xenomania, the sooner Cyprus will have a chance at correcting some of her many problems.

[Nikitas]

Putting Cyprus first does not mandate spouting outlandish theories or going off on some racial purity bender.

A truly free and independent Cyprus is a concept that has nothing to do with Greece or Turkey, religion, evolution or the art of shipbuilding in the bronze age.

[DrCyprus]

Putting Cyprus first does not mandate spouting outlandish theories or going off on some racial purity bender.

A truly free and independent Cyprus is a concept that has nothing to do with Greece or Turkey, religion, evolution or the art of shipbuilding in the bronze age.

[Get Real!]

Putting Cyprus first does not mandate spouting outlandish theories or going off on some racial purity bender.

A truly free and independent Cyprus is a concept that has nothing to do with Greece or Turkey, religion, evolution or the art of shipbuilding in the bronze age.

It has *everything* to do with it and the only thing outlandish I’ve seen on this thread is your assumption that you’re some kind of Jacques Cousteau as a result of playing with a dingy by the seaside in the 50s.

[GreekIslandGirl]

Reh, manah mou, GR! Are you still up the creek without a paddle?

[Nikitas]

Eh, not in the 50s old chap, I did most of my boat building in the 90s, well into middle age. Doing risky stuff as you grow older and all that, you know.

Just the other day I was shopping for a trimaran, hoping to sail it from Rhodes to Limassol, in good weather naturally.

Land lubbers cannot understand the call of the sea. Said aptly by a character in Kapetan Mihalis, you land based kapetanaioi walk in cow shit, you know nothing else.