27244 - Why do atheists want a mosque?
N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athena Kehagias
Because we have heard of everything as far as the issue of the mosque in Athens is concerned, we would like to examine the matter more spherically, and to address some questions which concern everyone, without however some setting them openly, due to fear of been exposed.
So the first point is this.
Why does the impression prevails that there aren’t any mosques in Greece?
Whereas we are well aware that there are regions which they dominate due to geopolitics rather than because of religion.
Why aren’t we saying that churches have been destroyed in order for them to become mosques?
Why don’t we explain to our people, that if there are so many churches dedicated to Aghios Georgios it’s not so much due to the enormous importance of Aghios Georgios for Greece, but due to the fact that our people, due and during the Ottoman rule, went on to changing the names of the churches, in order to protect them from the conquerors, because they happened to respect and fear this specific Aghios?
Because the Turkish rule issue doesn’t seem to be integrated in to discussions, as if the years of occupation never occurred, as if that’s not the case right now for Thrace and especially Constantinople.
Also, why should a decision be taken regarding purely religious matters, by some so called competents who’ve openly declared that religion doesn’t interest them in the least as it’s considered the opium of the people by them?
Does it go to say that Marx’s phraseology did not concern the mosques?
Was it merely an opinion about the churches?
Don’t those competent ones consider Islam a religion, and as a result the mosque is simply a cultural building according to them?
Unless the idea is for them to come across as liberalated people who believe in an ideology which committed genocide against Humanity and banned any form of religion for decades on, assuming that it liberates them from a yoke?
Which ever is the case there’s a cognitive consistency problem, but this isn’t an innovation, when you actually promote a religious issue and you simultaneously consider it unacceptable.
Additionally you are saying that you do all this aiming to show respect for the people, while you forget all their battles so that they are able to live in freedom.
Consequently, the main question remains open to an answer, and this is the substance: why do atheists want a mosque?
Merely due to servility.
Otherwise God may have mercy on us.