Croatian Catholic Bishop compares Serbs to an earthquake
During a mass in honor of the 443rd anniversary of the fall of Gvozdan Castle to the Ottomans, the bishop of Sisak, Vlado Kosic, blamed the Turks, communists, Serbs and the recent earthquake for all the troubles of his people.
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During a sermon during a mass dedicated to the tragic fall of Gvozdan Castle in 1578 (its defenders died of hunger or froze, but did not surrender), Bishop Vlado Kosic operated with completely non-Christian arguments.
“We know how they (the defenders of Gvozdan Castle - ed.) bravely resisted for three months in front of stronger Turkish troops and did not accept several calls for surrender that could have saved their own lives,” the bishop noted. “But they preferred to remain in Gvozdan Castle and guard the Fatherland rather than submit to the enemy and his troops.
This struggle decided and determined the spirit of the Croatian people to this day, whether we were oppressed by the Turks, the Communists or the Serbs. We bravely fought back all these oppressions, persecutions and aggressions because we had leaders who led us in this resistance and fought for our land.”
After this, Kosic noted that today the most important enemy of the Croats is earthquake.
“It devastates, destroys houses and churches, drives us out of our centuries-old homes and threatens that Croats will no longer live in these parts of our beautiful country. Before this, we were struck by a pandemic, which, however, waged war not only against us, but also against the whole world and all people. And thirdly, for 25 years now there has been an enemy in us, and it is called extinction: children are not born, there are fewer of us, we are disappearing.
What is our answer, can you, as the defenders of Gvozdan Castle, fight bravely and defeat today's enemies? An earthquake is difficult to predict; we cannot fight it like we can fight the Turks, Communists or Serbs. It is an insidious enemy that attacks everything... However, there is a cure for this plague - it is our Christian love,” the bishop concluded.
Apparently, the “Christian love” of the Sisak biskup does not apply to Turks, communists and Serbs.
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