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July 26, 2009

Greek priests get Parthenon truth censored

Famous filmmaker Constantin Costa-Gavras had produced an animated film short that shows to all visitors at Athens’ iconic Parthenon. One segment shows priests defacing the Parthenon after Christianity became the state religion of the Eastern Roman Empire. (They did.) Well, the Greek Orthodox Church threw a hissy fit and got the government to censor out that bit.

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