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Posted By: Kakovitch <ivankakovitch@aol.com> (cache-ntc-ad01.proxy.aol.com)
Date: Saturday, 21 February 2004, at 7:12 p.m.

This Forum is intended for the enlightenment and enrichment of Assyria, its culture, its existence in the present and its future.

Naturally, then, in view of the fact that Assyria produces no achievements to speak of, demonstrates no remorse to speak of its present status, and has no intention to build its future, there is ought to be something more.

This 'something' has been discovered in the passion allocated to 'The Passion of the Christ', a picture written, and directed by one of the Hollywood's most prolific screen actors and, a successful directors, Mel Gibson.

Assyria, wholly as a nation, has no inclination nor is it falling on its knees to the symbol of Christianity.

This affair between Assyria and Christianity takes place in the Churches, and in the hearts and minds of all those Assyrians that attend Churches.

Right here in the United States, there are around 20 Assyrian Churches of all denominations.

On any given Sunday, an average of no more than 600 Assyrians fill in the halls of these Churches.

This constitutes 0.3% of the Assyrian popoulation attending Churches, although all the Assyrians are Christians.

I do not believe this figure fares much higher in other countries where Assyrians reside. While in Sweden, I witnessed on 3 consecutive Sundays, no more than 100 Assyrian attending Sunday sermons in Stockholm and Huskvarna, and Jankoping. The other towns and localities, didn't even have priests, less, churches.

Assyrian Churches of Hamilton, London and Toronto, Aarhus, Sydney, Teheran and Moscow, just like their namesake Churches in the USA, are hard-pressed to sustain their mere existence on meager donations from their flocks.

Not digging into sociological details, the throngs participating in the Church affairs of Assyria are mostly the last generation of the immigrants from Russia and the Middle East, whereas the younger generation, born and bred abroad, hardly even contains itself of its parents' denominations, and outwardly harbors other means of attainment and enthralls itself with modern facets of life, that has no relation with churches or religion, in general.

In conclusion, so if the forthcoming screening of a film, produced and starred by non-Assyrians, with no Assyrian hand in any capacity in its production, entailing no Assyrian plot, but, merely a dialogue of Latin and Aramaic dialects, what significance does it bear for Assyria and its co-nationals, except that of an aura of a malediction of a nation, in a search for a solace in its dire and fragile commemorative form of existence.

I wonder, what do we turn to, next in our search for our subsistence.

In the meantime, we shall all enjoy 'The Passion of the Christ', for whatever its merits.

I certainly, shall.

Kakovitch



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