Orthodoxy spent two millennia producing saints, enduring martyrs, and defending the divinity of Christ. It has survived Roman emperors, Ottoman rule, and Soviet gulags just to pass down the unaltered Christian faith through a theology that entirely transcends human intellect. Calling a tradition that shaped global history and challenged the greatest minds of antiquity an "intellectual cult" is an impressively lazy attempt to rebrand your own cognitive fatigue as a theological critique.
@ZeroSum39182479@SeattleIndepen1 This is a generational issue. Fatherless homes are a more modern norm which is also something caused by the failure of men to maintain society.
You can have some sympathy. Men have been targeted to cause this. But, still, the impetus is on men to fix their fathers failures.
Evangelicals will look you dead in the eye and accuse your Ancient Church of having man made traditions whilst their average worship service looks like a Morgan Wallen concert
Destiny was at it's best when the aliens were unrelatable monsters and the Darkness was an eldritch cosmic force with no face of it's own. "The aliens are good actually" and the Witness existing is what killed the lore.
.@UbiPetrus2019 & @JayDyer make phenomenal points here about why Gen Z is so attracted to the theological debate sphere.
Older generations definitely grew up in a much more homogeneous society, with far less conflict. Gen Z, on the other hand, has grown up in probably one of the most polarizing periods in history, which attracts us to aggressive pushback against cataclysmic worldviews which have led us to where we are.
Religion has been blotted out of public schools, social degeneracy has run its course in every aspect of our society (entertainment, media, literature, politics), standpoint theory is crammed down everyone’s throats in academia… the list is never-ending. Growing up with these things and more… is naturally going to create a generation who wants confrontation with those worldviews and with the people who promote them.
People of my generation have visceral reactions to what non-Orthodox worldviews have brought our nation, and not only do we want nothing to do with them, we want to combat and destroy them before they destroy us.
It amazes me that a lot of people are still living like it’s the early
2000s or something. Totally unbothered by the foreign hordes, planning holidays, talking about their pensions / plans for the future. Blissfully unaware of actual reality and the impending collapse / chaos.
Sorry, sweetheart. You ladies were artificially pushed by the government into 52% of the workforce.
You're the breadwinners now. Take some responsibility and act like it.
Time to woman up and marry that guy working part time at Burger King and let him stay home and take care of the house. The same way men have been doing for women for.....eternity?
I know personally, I could have all the housework you women call slavery done in under 2 hours and have the rest of my day to play video games or possibly cheat with the UPS delivery girl or door dash girl. Like you ladies have been doing for.....eternity?
While driving south with copies of his book, Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future, (which critiqued modern spiritual deceptions), Saint Seraphim of Platina stopped partway up Mount Shasta—at a site known for neo-pagan festivals—and sang Paschal chants celebrating Christ’s Resurrection and victory over Satan and death. A recurring thought came to him: that an Orthodox priest should bless the mountain with holy water. After his ordination to the priesthood in 1977, he returned. He sang services (including the Typica), sprinkled holy water at multiple spots on the mountain, and effectively reclaimed it for Christ in a form of spiritual warfare against its reputation as a hub for neo-paganism, shamanism, UFO lore, and other occult/New Age activity.