Indian here. Is this normal in Greece? Greek priests praying and blessing the new Rafale jets that arrived in Greece. In India, when our priests did the prayer our News channels mocked it.
Indian here. Is this normal in Greece? Greek priests praying and blessing the new Rafale jets that arrived in Greece. In India, when our priests did the prayer our News channels mocked it. from greece
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Yes it is real, don’t forget that the orthodox church plays a big role in Greek society. Don’t worry tho, it gets mocked here and in other social media.
They are giving buffs
-20% air resistance
+10% missile evasion
5% to cast “Panagia moy” when hit
Its normal here. The current government is religious and promotes such practices and events. Television didn’t mock that, only some comedians online.
The same question has been asked in the Balkan subreddit and we realized that every orthodox christian country does so, Muslims in Albania and Turkey as well. Religion is deeply rooted in this country, personally I don’t give much attention
Priest casting buffs on the jets be like:
+20% speed
-20% air resistance
+25% health
+30% holy damage
-10% detection
+10% chance to trigger instant kill
+20% ammo
Yes it is normal.We bless anything new.
Of course it is normal. Why not bless our guns? Russians bless even their nuclear warheads :p
Not really unusual. I live in Greece and among other things at the beginning of every school year a priest comes to every school to bless it so we can have a good year I guess
Yes. In Romania, another ortodox country you can call the priest on a whim to bless everything from a shoelace to the engine of your 60 years old dacia (tru fact, searchable on YouTube ). There is actually a specific prayer for the car. Weirdest thing ever.
Still, you need to pay the priest for his trouble.
The hardcore believers like it.
The rest love it. (It’s very memeable)
A win win if you ask me.
Of course how else are you gonna ensure that they will work and not break down because of evil spirits??
Yes is pretty normal here in Greece !!!
It’s as much tradition as it is belief. I’m not much of a believer, but one of my best friends is an archimandrite, and he’s blessed the house, office, cars and motorcycles. I gotta say, for a non-believer I’m not ashamed to be a hypocrite to tradition.
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To people who dislike such practices
Why?
Let the people believe what they believe in, this practice does no harm so why hate it? Tradition when not harmful is the flavouring of culture and should be preserved.
Open to debate below:
*The Americans have astronafts, the Russians kosmonafts and we have kandelanafts.* Greek pride.
Yes it is and its a typical tradition to many pro christian countries.
They bless everything
>In India, when our priests did the prayer our News channels mocked it.
India also defines itself as a pluralistic state with several religions. Whereas here, the church is part of the nation-state. As others said, people are just desensitized to it here.
OTOH, if Greek politicians talked about God and their faith, the way American politicians do, that would get mocked. So, each country has different norms that people take for granted.
My opinion: go ahead and bless them, just don’t have a whole televised ceremony about it.
I made a comment on another post like this that I think explains this situation well
For those who think we are blessing war machines to go to war to fight the “mortal enemy”, the truth is that the prayers associated with such blessings ask that the weapons be used to defend the poor, widows, and generally uphold the peace
In general, the Church recognizes the difference between offensive and defensive wars. While neither is good, the latter can be necessary. So, it makes sense to ask for courage, integrity, wisdom, etc. in the fight to defend the nation, faith, and the weak.
Orthodox church in the Balkans, not only Greece is very close to the army.
It’s rather strange what you are saying? India is highly religious. Maybe because you have too many religious? Still doesn’t make sense.
Is this adeptus mechanicus origins?
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I honestly don’t see this as a big deal. It’s part of the culture, and it makes for part of a ceremony of celebrating something new.
We pretty much bless EVERYTHING
OP that’s because our news channels in India are “Progressives, libtards”. They don’t believe our in “hindu regressive” habits,.
.. they consider themselves to be westerners.
Yes it’s completely normal . Greece is a religious country so we do that a lot .
Yes it is!
It’s completely normal. Most of Greece is Orthodox (like 98% formerly) and a lot of them are pretty loyal. So yeah it’s totally normal.
Nothing unusual it is done for every new vehicle procurement.
Pretty common in Romania too, guess other christian orthodox countries do it as well
Yeah. Normal.
We bless the students every new year. We bless new buildings, we bless newborns, we bless our homes during Easter. We (rarely) bless new cars. The military, being conservative, blesses as far as I know anything.
During the final exams churches give away for free pre-blessed pens if you go there on a Sunday.