Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Where were you when they crucified Georgia?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/08/12/do1208.xml

[Telegraph] 13 Aug 2008--The gathering annexation of Georgia by Russia has been met with a cold shoulder from sister churches, whose leaders have in the past been only too keen to condemn illegal invasions of sovereign states, such as Iraq.

This is all the more surprising given that Georgia is a predominantly Christian country, second only to Armenia as the oldest official Christian state.

Some 82 per cent of the population are members of the Georgian Orthodox Church, with the next largest tranche of faith being the 10 per cent who count themselves Muslim.

Such a devout populace might have expected a unified condemnation of an attack on such a solid and venerable household of faith.

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