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**Tuqofiw** · 08-22-2006, 07:30 PM

Like Olga, I am also wondering why the Orthodox are silent on this issue, perhaps they are not aware of what has transpired?

It only takes one person to change this, to start making noises, to start getting other Orthodox people to care enough to protest about this religious discrimination. Just on this thread there are people from 3 different states in Australia who are concerned about this issue. Too often we are caught up in feeling small and helpless, hoping for a spiritual giant to come along and lead us, fire us up with the Christian fervour of the Saints of the past.

Our lives are too full of "noise", phones, television, computers, everything takes up so much time and dulls our senses. It is scary how much time is wasted on meaningless tasks. It is scary to me how important issues are forgotten so quickly because of day to day living.

I didn't realise that schools have been making children remove their Crosses before participate in sporting activities. I am very dissapointed, no horrified by this. People who are not Orthodox do not understand how important wearing the Cross is to us.

If we never talk openly about these issues, how are people supposed to know about this about us, about our beliefs? I went to school with, worked with, and had friends who were probably Orthodox, (some were Greek and also I have vague memories of small icons in their possession and homes) but it was years before I learnt that there was such a thing as the Orthodox Church.

In Christ
irene

08-22-2006, 07:30 PM	#7
Tuqofiw Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 500 Senior Member	Like Olga, I am also wondering why the Orthodox are silent on this issue, perhaps they are not aware of what has transpired? It only takes one person to change this, to start making noises, to start getting other Orthodox people to care enough to protest about this religious discrimination. Just on this thread there are people from 3 different states in Australia who are concerned about this issue. Too often we are caught up in feeling small and helpless, hoping for a spiritual giant to come along and lead us, fire us up with the Christian fervour of the Saints of the past. Our lives are too full of "noise", phones, television, computers, everything takes up so much time and dulls our senses. It is scary how much time is wasted on meaningless tasks. It is scary to me how important issues are forgotten so quickly because of day to day living. I didn't realise that schools have been making children remove their Crosses before participate in sporting activities. I am very dissapointed, no horrified by this. People who are not Orthodox do not understand how important wearing the Cross is to us. If we never talk openly about these issues, how are people supposed to know about this about us, about our beliefs? I went to school with, worked with, and had friends who were probably Orthodox, (some were Greek and also I have vague memories of small icons in their possession and homes) but it was years before I learnt that there was such a thing as the Orthodox Church. In Christ irene
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