John Saltas Responds to Metropolitan Isaiah's Letter
After reading the latest nonsensical and divisive letter from the Metropolitan, the obvious becomes even more so:
The single common thread of 50 years of confusion in the Salt Lake City Parish is the Metropolitan himself.
- This community has behaved honestly and ethically--he has not.
- He disavows fair elections.
- He makes excuses and false rationale.
- He sets a bar, then moves it.
- He orders secret acts (establishing Prophet Elias as a corporation for dubious reasons) from parishioners then seems amazed at what comes.
- How many good people--our friends and neighbors--have left due to his behavior?
- How much has that cost this community in hurt feelings? Hurt our image? Hurt this community financially?
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This problem is rooted in the FACT that the Patriarch, fearing the emergence of another Archbishop Iakovos, made our Archbishop in the country a mere figurehead (especially in the minds of our Metropolitans - MOST especially the one Denver, who has no problem throwing our Archbishop "under the bus").
Having vivisected the church in this country, the Patriarch has practiced the well-known dictum of "divide and conquer". In doing so he thinks that he has vouchsafed his American cash cow.
A lagniappe to it all, for at least his Turkish masters, is that he has also diluted the political effectiveness of the Greek Orthodox Church in America as an arm of the Greek Lobby.
Win-win for everyone but us!
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