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@FrJohnBoddecker @hmkherman And then theologies based upon Neo-Patristic revivalism/revisionism in contrast to works that actually cite the very reason I became Orthodox myself which was the church councils, synods, and the Saints.

@FrJohnBoddecker @hmkherman Thank you for your responses Father. It is hard to approach the mess that is modern Orthodoxy at least online because I’ve seen everything from Greg Bahnsen style TAG and rejections of natural theology to theologies based upon Aristotelian or Platonic and patristic thought.

yes. children’s and teens’ developing brains must be given a formative environment as described here

Violence isn’t usually the best solution, but it’s undeniably the most effective. Violence solves everything.

This is the guy that orthobros were ass-kissing and bending over backwards to welcome into the church. I don’t want to call them all evil, but I will say that they’re all idiots that are hoping to destroy any chance Orthodoxy has at succeeding in the West.

@FrJohnBoddecker @hmkherman For example, maintaining a more classical view or even a Thomistic view on the death penalty would be seen as totally immoral (the two popes since this switch have used language of morality not of prudence) to the modern papacy and faithful Catholic.

@FrJohnBoddecker @hmkherman Why would people want to do such a thing when maintaining such a classical theology would actually put the classical Orthodox positions at odds with modern Rome anyways who wants to move away from scholasticism and more?

@FrJohnBoddecker @hmkherman Then Father, why do many modern Orthodox Christians reject this distinction as ‘legalism’ despite it being found within the tradition?

@OrthodoxJones @hmkherman While a tweet will not suffice to lay out a treatment of Moghila's handling on the subject in full, if you are referring primarily to the distinction between mortal and venial sin is ancient. St Cyril detects it in his treatment of the "leprosy" texts of Lev. 13-14.

@FrJohnBoddecker @hmkherman Father, if I may ask, do you think that St Peter Mogila’s confession is correct on the matter of mortal sin? I’ve seen many today argue that his position is merely Catholic and a Catholic invention.

@hmkherman Not just kids & teens, I want to go back to an analog world. Bring back the card catalogs. Bring back class lectures without PowerPoint (made that move a few years back and couldn't be happier). It's hard, because research can be easier with databases, but it has its prices too.

Q: What is to be thought of those who sin after baptism? A: That they are more guilty in their sins than the unbaptized, since they had from God special help to do well, but have thrown it away” (Catechism of the Orthodox Church, On Baptism). - St. Philaret of Moscow

"I hate equality. It is the lie of the prophets. No people is equal to another. No man is equal to another. I love the exceptional precisely because they are the exception." — Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg

Banger

oh the warmth of being considered safe by something so much smaller than you

@Sola_Requiem @ItsLulu_7 I think this woman doesn’t know what distiributism is…

@ItsLulu_7 Where does that say the state should be in control over the nationalization and commodification of resources? If your definition of socialism is watered down to just being critical of rich people what's stopping a capitalist from saying anything involved in trade is capitalism?

Did I miss a page of the gospels where Jesus Christ tells us to seize the means of production and implement nationalized control over the fishing industry and land separate from Rome?

ur going to broke school im going to #WokeSchool

then you can’t love babies and abort them at the same time

@katherineortho I got attacked pretty hard for not agreeing with misogyny on this one😭😭

*Provides a woman’s perspective of dating in the church” Men: “this is biased and only attacks men!! You need to talk about what woman should do to improve bc men do not have any issues it’s the women!!” *Provides specific examples and personal stories from womens experience* Men: “retreat to generalizations again that all women are too picky, feminists, or bad and it’s their fault. women lack ANY accountability!!!!” *Provides specific things these Orthodox woman look for in a man (quite basic qualities btw)* Men: “how dare you! Women are so shallow and horrible!! No wonder these women are still single! haHA” *Provides a word of encouragement on how we as a church can do better to support single people and how men and women can come together again* Men: “this article is divisive and TRASH!” You wonder why we’re in such a bad place y’all…. Fortunately it seems the article was well received by men too. But notice, the ones who agree are all MARRIED. 🌸 Thank you everyone for your feedback!

@PriestKristoph @blessedmikko This is not to say that the state of America as the Big Gay Empire is good. The decay of American culture is evident, but to become Orthodox because of resentment of the nation instead of wishing to fix it by being living out a more traditional form of Christianity is treasonous.

@PriestKristoph @blessedmikko Many on here appeal to their orthodoxy to justify being a Russian stooge, or Anti-Western despite the Ukrainians and Greeks being western allies. For them, it’s all about being anti American and subversive.

There IS no "Orthodox position" on geopolitics. To think there is is to make yourself the tool of other men's purposes, and always, mysteriously, at the expense of the United States. As a simple exercise (and this is just one obvious example): if you have any opinion at all about military affairs between nations, but you don't know how many (working!) aircraft carriers there are in the world and who owns them... Back to the drawing board.