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Lets make this thread a honest and respectful debate about truth. The truth of today's Macedonian Slavic people.
As a Christian, i am unable to lie. I seek truth. And so should every other professing Christian.
Are Macedonian Slavs part of the Bulgarian ethnicity? Or at least, were they once part of it?
Post information and evidence to the argument you are trying to make.
Kuzman Shapkarev:
Macedonians claim Shapkarev to be ethnic Macedonian. But we all know that any Macedonian today espousing his ideas would be condemned and labeled a Bugaroman.In the beginning, when the form and colours of the Earth were ordained, fate apportioned to Macedonia a maze of mountains and a soil as red as blood.
The history of this beautiful, tormented land does not encourage belief in a benevolent Creator, whose everlasting arms are outstretched in mercy to support even a falling sparrow. Rather it tempts one to give credence to the Bogomil heresy, which, conceived and nurtured in the Bulgarian lands, asserted that the world was, in fact, created by the Devil. And indeed, who but a fiend could have created this Aceldama? Who but the Devil himself could have fashioned so fair a charnal-house of hope and high endeavour?
For Macedonia is as beautiful as her history is hideous... A southern land, born of the warm fertility of the Mediterranean and the rugged splendour of rebellious mountains... A land where eagles watch over the graves of heroes, and nightingales and cicadas sing serenades to the sun and moon... A land whose rivers, drunk with snow and thunderstorms, eternally seek the blue Aegean...
A land bounteous with all that man could desire: flowers and golden grain, grapes and apricots, figs and pomegranates, apples and almonds, cotton and rice, quinces and sesame, mulberries and walnuts, tobacco and opium...
A land of lakes, as bright as the eyes of angels, ringed with snowcapped mountains, and filled with fish fit for the gods of Olympus: Kastoria, Prespa, Doiran and celestial Ohrid... Ohrid, 'gilded in the setting sun and slumbering below hills, forest, snow, piled up and mingled with cloud midway in heaven,' [2] Ohrid, whose name in ancient Greek meant 'light', Ohrid, whose waters are as transparent as sunlight and where the very air sparkles like quick-silver...
An historic land, full of ancestral memories... Of the forebears of Philip and Alexander, who built their first capital, like an eagle's eyrie, high above the crags and cataracts of Edessa... Of Spartacus, born and bred beside the Struma, and taught by the stern, proud peaks of Pirin that life without liberty is merely a living death... Of St Paul, who came to preach the word of God in response to the poignant appeal which has echoed down the ages: 'Come over into Macedonia
But then we also have some Macedonian historians who claim the context of the term "Bulgarian" was strictly socio-religious in nature. Dispelling the possibility that it was ethnic.
Anyway, you get the drift............................................
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