Respond to what the President of Hellenic Solution supported, Kyriakos VelopoulosWednesday night at a debate of political leaders, showing pictures of her “Our Lady of the Geisha” And her “Our Lady of Indiana”gives Mr. Stavros YagazogluAssociate Professor of Theology at the University of Athens.

Mr. Velopoulos specifically mentioned that “these photos are in the 3rd grade textbooks. Isn’t that obscene? Isn’t that Christianophobia? Why is no one reporting this? For elementary school children. Geisha, whore – sorry for the phrase – Holy Virgin.

Speaking with “K”, Mr. Yagazogluwho is also one of the authors of the textbook, states:

“We have a lesson about the birth of Christ, His incarnation, which is full of images and ideas about how it was portrayed by different peoples who are Christians, or happened in history. The images featured in the political leaders’ debates are depictions of the Virgin and Child from Japan and Latin America.

St. Photius, a patriarch and an important figure who lived in the 9th century and played a role in the revival of writing, says the following: “The Greeks think that Christ appeared like them on earth. The Romans too. Indians too. So do the Ethiopians. Byzantium knew very early that faith had to be embodied in different languages ​​and cultures.

Therefore, a long tradition of Orthodoxy is the use of mores, customs and elements of the culture of peoples to express the new faith among the people. The same thing happened in icon painting.” Similar images are found in other books, showing that Christ does not belong to one family, tribe, but to the whole world.