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yakalskovich) wrote2006-09-18 12:03 am
yakalskovich) wrote2006-09-18 12:03 am
Religious harrassment...
... or at least some serious lack of respect. At least that was my impression today.
Well, as some of you know, I'm a Protestant born and bred (generations of Lutheran pastors as my ancestors, even), but I have Orthodox leanings, the way many people have Buddhist leanings?
From time to time, the Nagzul and I go to some Othodox Sunday service in a nicely shabby old hurch in the very middle of Munich. It belongs to the Greek Orthodox since the 1820s. One line of the Bavarian royals became kings in Greece back then, which is why; there were so many Greeks in Munich they needed their own church.
We like that place more than the shiny modern church with the shiny new community centre a bit outside, by the cemetary.
But today, Bavarian Catholics showed serious lack of respect for other people's religion, even those old established Greeks. It is the first Sunday of Oktoberfest, which apparently means a huuuuuuge parade of brass bands and old-fashioned fire brigades and folk dancers in folk costumes, dirndls and lederhosn and the lot.
And LOUD!!! OMG no meavy metal concert as ever as loud as that persistent oof-ta oof-ta oof-ta-ta of those huge brass bands with their huge kettledrums and trombones.
And that went on directly beside the Greek Orthodox church. People were trying to be spiritual in there and listen to milliennia-old Orthodox chant, lighting candles in front of icons and standing still in the clouds of incense - while the stained glass windows shook with the noise of the parade.
The church is traditional, so is the parade route. For decades now, the Bavarians have been disturbing other people's religion that way while being utterly pig-headed about their own, messing up the whole town last weekend because of the bloody Pope.
Not the way to go, Munich! I should consider going back north after all...
Well, as some of you know, I'm a Protestant born and bred (generations of Lutheran pastors as my ancestors, even), but I have Orthodox leanings, the way many people have Buddhist leanings?
From time to time, the Nagzul and I go to some Othodox Sunday service in a nicely shabby old hurch in the very middle of Munich. It belongs to the Greek Orthodox since the 1820s. One line of the Bavarian royals became kings in Greece back then, which is why; there were so many Greeks in Munich they needed their own church.
We like that place more than the shiny modern church with the shiny new community centre a bit outside, by the cemetary.
But today, Bavarian Catholics showed serious lack of respect for other people's religion, even those old established Greeks. It is the first Sunday of Oktoberfest, which apparently means a huuuuuuge parade of brass bands and old-fashioned fire brigades and folk dancers in folk costumes, dirndls and lederhosn and the lot.
And LOUD!!! OMG no meavy metal concert as ever as loud as that persistent oof-ta oof-ta oof-ta-ta of those huge brass bands with their huge kettledrums and trombones.
And that went on directly beside the Greek Orthodox church. People were trying to be spiritual in there and listen to milliennia-old Orthodox chant, lighting candles in front of icons and standing still in the clouds of incense - while the stained glass windows shook with the noise of the parade.
The church is traditional, so is the parade route. For decades now, the Bavarians have been disturbing other people's religion that way while being utterly pig-headed about their own, messing up the whole town last weekend because of the bloody Pope.
Not the way to go, Munich! I should consider going back north after all...
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