
Benjamin Michael
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Benjamin Michael
@RealBenMichaell
Ethnic American • The East will save the West☦️ • Secretary: Society of St. John of San Fran • @orthoworldwide Co-Founder • Esther 4:14b • CZC • Telegram⬇️







Protestantism and Orthodoxy lack beauty; Catholicism radiates a beauty that is universal.








Joy Reid's warning about the far-right: "Their plan? 0 income tax, 0 regulation, earn as much as you want, your family inherits it all!"




There is no “perpetual war” between Holy Orthodoxy and the tiny group of purely online crypto-Protestants that try to push western views of inherited guilt. That’s pretty close to an outright lie, RZ. And the confession of Dositheus is not “kinda on the latinizer side,” it outright condemns Calvinism as heresy. It’s literally the opposite of “kinda on the latinizer side.”

i think rape is bad








It's often said that it takes about 10 years to truly acquire an Orthodox *phronema* when converting from Protestantism. At first I thought that sounded extreme. Now, several years in, I’m starting to see why. You can learn the prayers, master the services, read the Fathers, and even change your calendar… but rewiring your mind from a Protestant framework to the actual mind of the Church? That’s deeper work. It touches how you read Scripture, how you understand authority, how you experience time, mystery, and the sacraments. It’s not just adding incense and icons — it’s a slow, sometimes painful, dying to old ways of thinking. Orthodoxy isn’t a new denomination. It’s the ancient Church. And the phronema isn’t something you download in a catechism class. It’s caught more than taught — through years of prayer, repentance, obedience, and sitting at the feet of the saints. If you’re a convert in year 1, 3, or even 7 and you still feel like an outsider in your own head sometimes… you’re not failing. You’re right on schedule. The Church has patience. So should we. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us. ☦️















