Author: Petros Tatsopoulos
Why do people believe in strange things?
Henry Byron Warner died of a heart attack at the age of 82. Jeffrey Hunter, at 42, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, lost consciousness, and died fatally injured in the head. Max von Sydow left us last March, full of days, as we are accustomed to saying about anyone who has passed 90. Ted Neeley is still alive – today he is 77 years old – with a steady downward trend in his career. In contrast, Robe...
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...
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 ...
A society in complete intellectual decline.
We will never know what Paisios, who is celebrated as a saint today, and crowds of sheep and goats flock to his tomb, really said and did not say. And even if he did say a tenth of what he supposedly said, we get the impression that he was a deeply disturbed person with delusional outbursts of misanthropy that only someone with the intelligence of a tablecloth would not understand; in our days, he...