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=> when Nenus first heard he was "assyrian"....

when Nenus first heard he was "assyrian"....
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, March 19 2012, 13:56:19 (UTC)
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...like the rest of us this happens at a very early age when we can first comprehend such things...it also has happened to my generation, and his, at a pretty tough time for Christians...I mean the kind of Christians very proud to BE Christians who also learned from the same source, to resent Muslims and the dominance of Muhammad...his victory over their "dear Lord" etc. Also, politically, it came only a decade or so after Semele and only a little past the massacres of some Christians during WW I, when our people lost much of their treasure and possessions, and land and homes and were forced to start over as refugees.

...having lost everything and already being a minority, the news that Nenus was directly related to Ashurbanipal and therefore was entitled to "Assyria" as his rightful inheritance, was too good to be NOT true, too wonderful...it came as a blessed compensation for all that his family had lost...it would be like all of a sudden finding yourself and your family homeless, all possessions gone and without work or hope..and having someone tell you that you were really a member of the Rockefeller family of billionaires and should go and claim your inheritance, while the will was being read. Who wouldn't WANT to believe such incredible news, coming at such a low point in their lives?

MidEast Christians of an evangelical bent (and even the COE was famous for that) are "humbly" arrogant and have always resented their second-tier status in Muslim countries.....this new "Gospel of Assyrianism", this "Good News", as good as the news about Jesus ever was, was really, really GOOD and they could not pass up the opportunity to all of a sudden be "special"...to have been "wrongfully robbed by usurpers"....and "to be OWED" compensation.

And the Euros KNEW that.

And so, today, Nenus is going to cling to this fantasy with all his might and main...it is, after all, his "legacy" his ONLY legacy because the rest of the modern history of MidEast Christians, is not glorious in any way. If he gives it up, what has he to be proud of? Where is he special? Will the WORLD care about him? Will 999 others join with him?

It's sad, it's pathetic too, to see grown people prefer this fairy tale to the reality of who they are...perhaps if they could admit the truth they would begin to mature and look about them for something REAL to achieve and not cling to this "hope", standing in the street dressed in rags, accosting passersby with, "hey mister, I used to be somebody important.....have you got a dime...or a country I can have"?



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