KYIV — As reported by UOJ-Ukraine, Andrey Dudchenko, a cleric of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) and secretary of its Synodal Theological-Liturgical Commission, has said that the OCU’s current Trebnik, or Book of Needs, no longer includes the traditional baptismal action of blowing and spitting on Satan, explaining that the gesture now tends to provoke amusement rather than convey its intended meaning.
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As a Jewish convert to Orthodox Christianity I want to state one thing clearly: the Orthodox voices clutching their pearls about “antisemitism” don’t speak for me and I never asked them to. As I’ve been saying since long before “October 7th,” the primary cause of antisemitism is Jewish behavior. It isn’t hatred or gentile psychopathology.
On that note, I also don’t trust anyone who only began criticizing Jews or Israel once the topic became safe and popular. If you knew the truth and didn’t say it because you were worried about monetization or censorship, you’re a coward and I’ll never respect you.
@_raymondwill I played with a guy once at MPCC who used the club’s plastic markers, the large one for long putts and the tiny one for short putts. Extremely thoughtful. He nailed it.
@ladyloodeeloo As a former Calvinist, I agree it’s satanic. It led me, based solely on the logic of the theology, to conclude that suicide would just speed up the fruits of being “elect” since I could do nothing to change my eternal destiny, whether heaven or hell. Dreadful.