Author: Petros Tatsopoulos
Why did god save Donald Trump?
I’m ashamed to say it, and even more ashamed to have thought about it, but if I wanted to be completely honest with you, my text today should have the unflattering but accurate title: “Why didn’t god save the fireman?”. But how many of us would read a post about the wrongful death of a firefighter? How many of us, hand on heart, even bothered to learn the fireman’s na...
Miracles and Trauma
“As for miracles, I will confess to you that I have not seen any miracle here, one of a blind man seeing, a paralyzed man walking, a sick man being healed before my eyes. But I have seen thousands of souls, who come tired, disappointed, even to the point of leaving the present in a violent way. And then I have seen them to depart from this place light, smiling, internally rested, having ...
The Criminal Fate Worship
Last year, during the deadly fire in Mati, a popular website uploaded the ‘news’ of the rescue of an icon of the Virgin Mary, after personal intervention of… herself. Forgive my naivety, but a supernatural entity of any religion (Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Hellenic Polytheism not excluded) that ‘permits’ the horrific death of one hundred and two people and the ...
Not even their voices!
Climate change and the accompanying prolonged summer laziness prevent us from realizing that in other parts of our planet there is a harsh winter – and I am not referring to the … weather conditions. I’m sorry if my topic today doesn’t go along with sun creams, rackets, sunbeds, the general foolery of the Greek summer, and as far as I’m concerned, I don’t have a...