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January 14, 2011 – 3:00 am
Montenegrin lawyers say that Bishop Amfilohije should be persecuted because his statement was humiliating to the ethnic Albanian Muslim, Mehmed Bardi, who wants to demolish a church that is on the mountaintop in Montenegro. President of the Association of Lawyers of Montenegro, Stanko Maric, and former chief of Montenegro’s Supreme Court, Blagota Mitric say that Bishop Amfilohije must be persecuted for issuing an anathema on the Christmas Eve over attempts to demolish a church. “With that statement Amfilohije committed an act against religious and inter ethnic tranquility in the region of Bar in Montenegro,” Maric and Mitric told the daily Pobjeda. Speaking during the Christmas Eve liturgy, Amfilohije was referring to the resurrected church building in Rumija that was demolished by the conquering Muslim Turks when they entered the city of Bar. “Who demolishes’ that cathedral [on Rumija], may God demolish him and his offspring, may the holy cross be his judge,” Amfilohije said.
Anathema is a Christian doctrine that, according to Saint John of Shanghai & San Francisco, “literally means the lifting up of something separate” and “Anathema is not final damnation: until death repentance is possible.”
“Thus, the Church excommunicates, expels from her midst (when it is said, ‘Anathema to so-and-so’, that means the same thing as, ‘So-and-so: out of here’), or anathematizes for the same reason that any society does so,” writes Orthodox Bishop Theophan the Recluse. Those who desire to establish a so-called “montenegrin” orthodox church view any attack on Amfilohije as positive, and this particular one on the subject of church anathema relies rather heavily on sophistry – “a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning” – and as such is a soft attack on a legitimate Bishop that stands in the way of the illegitimate and uncanonical activities in Montenegro.
Attacks on Amfilohije on this matter argue as follows: since the Serbian word for anathema (prokletstvo) also means damnation or cursing then there are two sides to the Amfilohije speak: religious side and the civil side which the bigoted Albanian Muslim Mehmed Bardi found offensive.
“One thing is when Amfilohije is cursing those who seek demolition of the church and I can include that in his church-canonical sphere, but that moral reflection is nihilistic because Amfilohije, through the curse on offspring, in unacceptable and unreasonable,” said Mitric to Pobjeda.
In 2008 the church of the Saint Trinity on Rumija, seen below, was again vandalized with graffiti about Albania....more...
Montenegrin lawyers say that Bishop Amfilohije should be persecuted because his statement was humiliating to the ethnic Albanian Muslim, Mehmed Bardi, who wants to demolish a church that is on the mountaintop in Montenegro. President of the Association of Lawyers of Montenegro, Stanko Maric, and former chief of Montenegro’s Supreme Court, Blagota Mitric say that Bishop Amfilohije must be persecuted for issuing an anathema on the Christmas Eve over attempts to demolish a church. “With that statement Amfilohije committed an act against religious and inter ethnic tranquility in the region of Bar in Montenegro,” Maric and Mitric told the daily Pobjeda. Speaking during the Christmas Eve liturgy, Amfilohije was referring to the resurrected church building in Rumija that was demolished by the conquering Muslim Turks when they entered the city of Bar. “Who demolishes’ that cathedral [on Rumija], may God demolish him and his offspring, may the holy cross be his judge,” Amfilohije said.
Anathema is a Christian doctrine that, according to Saint John of Shanghai & San Francisco, “literally means the lifting up of something separate” and “Anathema is not final damnation: until death repentance is possible.”
“Thus, the Church excommunicates, expels from her midst (when it is said, ‘Anathema to so-and-so’, that means the same thing as, ‘So-and-so: out of here’), or anathematizes for the same reason that any society does so,” writes Orthodox Bishop Theophan the Recluse. Those who desire to establish a so-called “montenegrin” orthodox church view any attack on Amfilohije as positive, and this particular one on the subject of church anathema relies rather heavily on sophistry – “a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning” – and as such is a soft attack on a legitimate Bishop that stands in the way of the illegitimate and uncanonical activities in Montenegro.
Attacks on Amfilohije on this matter argue as follows: since the Serbian word for anathema (prokletstvo) also means damnation or cursing then there are two sides to the Amfilohije speak: religious side and the civil side which the bigoted Albanian Muslim Mehmed Bardi found offensive.
“One thing is when Amfilohije is cursing those who seek demolition of the church and I can include that in his church-canonical sphere, but that moral reflection is nihilistic because Amfilohije, through the curse on offspring, in unacceptable and unreasonable,” said Mitric to Pobjeda.
In 2008 the church of the Saint Trinity on Rumija, seen below, was again vandalized with graffiti about Albania....more...
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