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Thursday, October 05, 2006

Armenia 2020

Armenia 2020 is a development project for Armenia. Under it's umbrella, there was a competition for the best essay about the future of Armenia. The winning essays were published. Here are some excerpts from one of them (I will be skipping through chunks of text and replacing them with ellipsis):

"Through the foggy clouds of time I see the future of my homeland... We put behind us the 1700 years of Christianity, which is, in fact, reformed Judaism. It hasn't brought us anything but troubles (neither it did any good to other nations: Greeks, Romans, Germans)...
Armenia, year 2020. Christianity no longer holds the minds of Armenians. It did not meet the political, economical and social needs of the new society...What replaced it is free of dogms and is built on purely religious spiritual abstractions: The Deified Virtue..."



(Here the author takes an imaginary tour of the renewed homeland, stopping to see the giant statues of ancient kings and gods, the restored pagan temples, to notice the return to the oldest known form of the Armenian language. Finally, he stops by a giant statue of the Mother-Goddess.)


"Yes, it is Her, the Mother of all virtues and and benefactress of mankind, the daughter of the very God that we missed so much over the last 1000 years... So, He lead us out of the desert after all. He had indeed chosen us. With anxiety and care He looked upon our mistakes throughout history, ever since the mislead king Trdat destroyed all the nation's idols, killed everyone who remained true to them, and bowed to Judean Yahweh (hidden under the harmless title of Father God) in the person of his prophet Jesu Noshri, better known as Jesus of Nazareth...
The blood of those killed for the sake of spreading Christianity from IV century and on, was calling to us... Wasn't that the real genocide?"


(And on and on he goes, describing how technologically advanced and prominent the nation has become, how the Turkey is no more, and finally ending with Zeus being the Saviour of the nation and Athena - the Keeper of the people. And expressing a hope that this fantasy will one day become reality.)

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