I am Egyptian, born and bred. Lived most of my life in Egypt from birth in 1990 until 2016, when I moved to the UK.
If you, as a white British man, moved to Egypt and had a child there with a white British woman, and told Egyptians your kid is just as Egyptian as they are, they'd bloody laugh at you.
Yes, ethnicity and race matter in every damn country.
Oli, please take a seat. You're an imbecile.
The Orthodox Church is the only Church that still officially upholds the duty of the Christian State to God. The rest, including Rome in Gaudium et Spes and the religious liberty errors in the other documents, has rejected its former Christian state teachings. Protestants are 99% opposed to a Christian state. Much like the anathema service, this is yet another clear proof as to which Church teaches the same thing as the first millennium church - proving which is the one, true Church.
Yet another sign of the fruits of not only Vatican II and the post VII catholicism, but indeed the long path to alienation and distortion of the Gospel which began 1000 years ago.
Come home to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, the Orthodox Church, all you who are weary and heavily laden with your bishops' and popes' apostasy.
So @needGod_net not only misattributed Thomas Aquinas to St Augustine, he tried to say the quote means EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of what it actually says!
And Ryan left out the most important part of what Thomas is saying here—that Ryan’s view is “rejected as heretical” 😂😂😂
SLOP!
So I called in to @KellyPowersBPA show and Ryan pulled this quote supposedly from St Augustine.
The citation is incorrect. And Grok, ChatGPT, and Gemini were unable to locate the quote. So I asked @sincead33. He, too, couldn’t locate it.
@needGod_net where is this quote from???
Why men are drawn to Orthodoxy:
• The self-denial of a warrior
• The humility of loving one’s enemies
• The unknown frontiers of a commitment to self-sacrifice
They appreciate the objectivity of Orthodox worship.
It is not aimed at prompting religious feelings.
It is aimed at performing an objective duty.
This is not pink romance. This is swords and gallantry.
What draws them is not the challenge itself. It is Christ.
#jesus #orthodoxy #Christ