Why did the Serbian orthodox church collaborate in war crimes.?

Question

They were the biggest cheer leaders for the Serb war crimes.


They blessed paramilitaries before they went of to commit genocide.
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/monitor/2005/06/srebrenica-killings-video-icty.php

They gave support to war criminals Karadzic and Mladic, and hide them from justice. And even now give support to a war criminal in the Hague - Seselj

They blew up mosques in Banja Luka and Srebrenica and built churches on top of them.

Answer 1

Maybe what is happening to the Serb monasteries in Kosovo is due justice.

Just because the Croatian Ustashi killed many Serbs during WW II does not justify revenge - "Revenge is mine" said the Lord.

The Greeks did not commit war crimes against anyone else so they were spared massive destruction. Plus, the Greeks have friends in the US who claim to be on their side.

Yes, what is happening in Kosovo pains me but perhaps that pain wouldn't exist had Milosevic not disintegrated Yugoslavia.

{EDIT} The Catholic, Communist, Croatian Ustashi suffered no ill consequences for genociding Serbs during World War II but Milosevic was dragged through the Hague for standing up to US sponsored Albanian terrorists. The US bombed the Serbs back to the Stone Age for 79 straight days. I realize that this question is really pro-Muslim and anti-Serb but don't forget that the US backs the Muslims in Kosovo and would prefer to see the Serbs silenced. Plus, the Serbs carry their defeat to a now defunct Ottoman Empire in 1389 far more seriously than the Greeks do - perhaps the time has come for land locked Serbia to embrace the world.

Answer 2

Somehow I doubt it. The monks in the Decani monastery protected Albanians from atrocities in 1999 and were repaid by Albanian attempts to kill them/firebomb the medieval monastery. As for dynamiting mosques in Bosnia, that is true and it's a shame but it's not like the Orthodox church priests were doing the detonations. As for churches being built on top of the ruins, that is certainly not OK, but in some cases, the mosques were built over Serb churches that Muslims destroyed earlier (e.g. in Bijeljina).

Answer 3

I do not think all Orthodox Christians are bad. But from my reading and knowledge , in the Balkans the Greeks and the Serbs are the most twisted and have incorporated their religious believes with nationalistic fervor and this has led to abuses.

The Albanian Orthodox church was as earlier as 100 years ago a branch of the Greek church, and then they threatened its memebers with excommunication for supporting the Albanian independence and taking part in nationalistic movements and activities. As the story goes when a Greek Orthodox priest refused to perform the burial rites for a member of the Albanian community in Boston because of his nationalistic activities , Fan Noli and a small group of Albanians with similar feeling formed the independent Albanian Orthodox church. The Greeks are pretty sore about that because they saw the Orthodox Albanians as Greeks and if not for Noli Greece would be now in controll of possibly half of Albania, all the way to Elbasan.

A lot of the rhetoric is basically a mask. Look at Arkan for example he came out with this image as an Orthodox Serbian hero but look at his background, he came from a strongly communistic household where god was banished.

As I have always said god does not tell you to go kill, raped, and torture in any religion. If it does than those religions are flawed. You cannot be a good Christian and kill in the name of god. It is the same as saying I'm a faithful prostitute.

Answer 4

Cos Christianity can only exist in two ways.

1. By force (In African countries missionary's only give food if they convert to Christianity.)

2, By lies. Jesus said he is nothing without God, but priests say Jesus is God.