tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687886961771238263.post1978981722673215639..comments2023-12-28T14:51:34.281-05:00Comments on Notes on Arab Orthodoxy: Fr Georges Massouh on Syrian ChristiansUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687886961771238263.post-2712656118507856642013-06-19T13:13:37.176-04:002013-06-19T13:13:37.176-04:00Truly a cry from the heart. Prayers for the holy l...Truly a cry from the heart. Prayers for the holy land of Syria.<br /><br />Now, to brass tacks:<br /><br />Syria's Christian intellectuals really need to drop their sentimental attachment to Ba'athism. What seemed workable at the Sorbonne in the 1930's when it looked like the USSR would last more than just two generations broke down very quickly in the application.<br /><br />Where it seems "Arabs" are most stable and content is under their Salafist emirates, which are hard to imagine transposed to Syria and Lebanon, but that seems to be where NATO, Israel and the Gulf Arabs want things to head.<br /><br />This begs the other question of how "Arabic" the Levant really is. What works for Gulf Arab tribes that were largely nomadic just a century ago is, frankly, an unjust and ahistorical imposition on the long-civilized and originally Christian and Hellenic Levant. And as we have also seen, socialism and one-party rule is ridiculous for a hugely diverse region which practically invented commerce and trade.The Anti-Gnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386593803225823789noreply@blogger.com