Sometimes you have to hold on firmly, in order to endure what you hear. Because, while we overcame iconoclasm centuries ago, and actually since then, this trend is considered an heresy which was influenced by Islam, where the human depiction of the sacred is prohibited. So, our byzantine icons characterize us continuously and in fact we are even recognized abroad in this way and form as well. So, why do we hear some now, who want to remove them from public places and schools?

Greece is not a State where there is such separation. In other words, our faith is embedded in our institutional life. So why should they remove the icons? In order for things to take the path to hell? Why this rage against our characteristics? What can we do, we are like so for centuries on, and live this continuity from the Byzantium.

What happened now and all these will become illegal?

It is interesting that we live in an age where we want out of respect for the religious to even build mosques. And at the same time, they want the icons to be removed.

But these icons are the past and the future. They are the condensed history of our civilization, so how should we accept these intimidation and threats.

Is it possible on our own, at a time when we are preparing to commemorate the 200 years of the National Revolution against the brutality of the Turkish occupation, to remove what even our worst invaders failed to break off?

It is not possible, because, we are these icons.