Open Letter To the Archbishop: Your Lack Of True Leadership Destroyed My Life!!

EDITOR’S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis): When I coined the nickname “Elpidoktonos”/ “Hope-killer” (it was the day his “election” was announced on May 11, 2019), I could never imagine that his actions will rise to match it in such a fitting way… Then, I did it with a question mark: Will he prove to be Elpidophoros or Elpidoktonos? (Hope-bearer or Hope-killer?)… Now the question marks and the doubts are gone – he proved to be a Hope-killer!… 

Leadership, or lack thereof, can have serious consequences: The wrong decision by an Army General on the battlefield can cost the lives of thousands.  In the same way, the disastrous decision of AB Elpidoktonos to not support the religious exemption on vaccines not only destroyed the lives of many faithful but it destroyed the faith itself.

• Where in the Bible or in the teachings of the Holy Fathers is there ONE word supporting using medicine by force? Nowhere… Medicine and “science” would support such an act only when the subject of the forced vaccination lacks “free will” (i.e. he is a young child)…
• Why did AB Elpidoktonos completely disregard the use of fetal material in producing the vaccines?  For the same reason, he befriended “baby-killer” politicians like Cuomo and Giannaris – who support abortion up to the day of birth!! He does not believe in the sanctity of life –  and therefore he has abandoned the teachings of our Faith… 
• For the rest, I will let this Greek-American educator – who also happens to be a Sunday School teacher – speak in a very powerful, raw way… This open letter to the Archbishop says it all… THE NAME OF THE AUTHOR IS AVAILABLE TO ANYONE IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OR AMONG THE SO-CALLED “ARCHONS” WHO WISHES TO MAKE A JOB OFFER BEFORE THIS WONDERFUL PERSON GOES HUNGRY BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO KEEP THEIR TRUE FAITH…
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Dear Helleniscope,

I am one of the casualties of the ABs recent position on the vaccinations, as he is not supporting NYC municipal workers, especially his own flock, the Greek-Orthodox community here in NYC.

Thanks to our AB, as a Department of Education (DOE) employee, I am on an unpaid, forced leave of absence. I cannot collect unemployment, nor can I acquire another job to put food on my table.  Also, I  cannot pay my mortgage, nor put in for my pension because of a 27% penalty if I try to collect too soon.

During my arbitration appeal process, the DOE attorney argued that my religious exemption cannot be honored because my church leader is in favor of these vaccinations and as a member of his church and as of recently, a Sunday school teacher, I would be denied! 

I argued, without an attorney representing me, the position of our autocephalous bishops throughout the world, and the holy elders from our Holy Mountain, Mt Athos; as I quoted Metropolitan Savvas, and the Georgian Church, Assyrian Bishop Emmanuel of Sydney, Australia, and so on, and last but never least, Saint Paisios!

The Jewish attorney/arbitrator had to listen to me, as I spoke about my personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and how the over-zealous AB of America does not speak for me, and neither does the Patriarch who lives in Turkey!  Each night, I speak to Jesus directly; He’s the one who I follow and believe in, and in my opinion, that’s all my religious exemption should have been based on! 

My research was presented, medical evidence against the vaccines composed of fetal cell lines in every stage of the vaccination production, but all fell on deaf ears, as I was reminded that my church leader, basically threw us all under the proverbial bus!!  The week our religious exemptions were due, as we needed the support of our clergy in writing, he made his statement very loud and concise. What timing! 

Aisxos!  It’s shameful, the damage the AB has done to our community.  He’s an outsider, a stranger, a Turk, as he has affected the lives of thousands in such a malicious, calculated and pre-meditated way.What are we supposed to do when your own church is against you?  How are we suppose to survive?  Things are getting worse each passing day. Since my religious convictions have guided me always, I am not afraid… 🙏🏻☦️

May God forgive him for what he has done, but honestly, I do not think we pray to the same God…. The God I believe in, the one true God, is in the heavens, with Archangel Michael and the legions of Angels, who are ready and waiting for His command, as they will annihilate all evil…..🙏🏻☦️

Thank you.

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These are some other sources I used for my religious exemption:

1. Georgian Orthodox Synod On The Necessity Of Vaccination Being A Free Choice And Not Compulsory – https://patriarchate.ge/news/2718

2. Greek Orthodox Press Release on “The Cloning of Embryonic Cells” – https://www.bioethics.org.gr/03_c.html

3. Saint Paisios Warns Against the Vaccine – https://cyberianorthodox.wordpress.com/2021/03/26/a-vaccine- those-taking-it-will-be-marked/

4. Elder Efthymios Against the Vaccine – https://www.ekklisiaonline.g

5. Metropolitan Saba of Khoni Against The COVID Vaccine – https://tabula.ge/ge/news/645649-mitropoliti-saba-virusis- vaktsina-iaraghi-ikneba

6. Moldovan Orthodox Church Declaration On The Threat Of COVID Vaccines – https://credo.press/231152/