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Fruitless trees (Metropolitan Athanasios of Lemessos)

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Abba Isaac says that people who don’t have a merciful cast of mind are like trees without fruit. It doesn’t matter what your ascetic endeavors are –prayers, fasts and vigils–, unless your heart’s merciful, unless it’s loving towards other people, unless it’s fond of them, as God is of all of us, then we’re like trees without fruit. » Bishop Athanasios of Limassol

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The Myths and Morals of Multi-Culturalism (Konstantinos Holevas, Political Scientist)

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In an interview with the newspaper Sunday Makedonia on 30/5/2010, Eleni Glykatzi-Ahrweiler spoke in no uncertain terms: Byzantium , she said, was, indeed, multi-national, but it had only one culture. This distinguished Byzantine scholar thus told us the secret of how a state survived for 1100 years. Mono-cultural states have a future; multi-cultural ones collapse, either peacefully or through the force of arms. Remember the case of Yugoslavia. Observe the fragmentation processes at work in Skopje (Muslim Albanians versus Orthodox Slavs) or Belgium, (where the Flemish population would like to separate from the French Walloons) . It may be possible for a society today to welcome a certain- not unlimited- number of immigrants from other countries, but it must ...

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