Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Where will this wave touch?

Is this a set of waves?

I am an active participant in ongoing dialog in Caucasus, and notives Tabule.ge   - posting about atheism and options. A Christian country, Republic of Georgia has been waffling to and fro since January especially when the topic came up. ( for the whole story see tabula.ge  ).

Recently a poster said -

ეს სტატია თითქოს მე დავწერე – იმდენად ზუსტად გამოხატავს ჩემს აზრს.



...or - basically and in a few words,

კიდევ ერთი რამეა ტაბუირებული: ათეიზმი და ათეისტობა. მე მახსოვს, ზოგიერთ წრეში ადრე ამის ხმამაღლა აღიარების მეშინოდა კიდეც. ეს რომ ხმამაღლა თქვა, ისე შემოგხედავენ, როგორც ჭირიანს. თუმცა ახლა არ ვერიდები...

that is, it is ok to speak openly about questions to authority and influence of church vs. state.  

Where I get off here is that - I really really wonder how Georgia, and especially Azerbaijan - might perhaps or indeed will follow the wave of political uprisings - remembering that Azerbaijan as well as Dagestan (Russian territory) [ where just today there was another terakt / terrorist act] - both are in the bubbling Caucasus .

For my Russian readers:

I. Почему бы не быть критические вопросы к Патриарх Церкви и о? 

  Как странно, что должно сопровождаться специальными агрессии, а не Бог, Библия критического обсуждения, но патриарх, тот или иной шаг, выражение обсуждения Бог ...

This wave - perhaps western scholars want to follow other thinking and call it an "Awakening" - may yet reach the Caucasus, already fragile. I keep up with it because I worked there and now hang out there in the dacha I bought in Adjara. There is a definite wind of change here and there.
 

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