Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚

☦️Orthodox Catechumen 🏥 Hospice Chaplain 💊Tylenol-American 🖋Wordsmith 🇺🇸Army Veteran 🎮Gamer 🇫🇮Married to a Beautiful Finn

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

Man, fallen from grace, departed Eden eastward—his back facing the vile serpent due west—so that his gaze might evermore be fixed on the eastern horizon from which the Sun of Righteousness would dawn, by Whom he would rise by grace.

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

90% of people are remarkably evil then. If you use numbers to justify murder, you are demonic.

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

90% of people who are told their fetus will have Down syndrome end the pregnancy. Virtually none talk about it. This is common and yet shrouded in shame. I’m not sure piling more shame onto it helps anyone, although I’m sure it makes some people feel morally superior.

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

Got off work early. Enjoying the Lord's gifts before my church's men's ministry meeting.

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

@Ilerioluwakiye_ You could've just said: "Because I'm a coward."

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

One of my favorite things about being a hospice chaplain is that sometimes, on days like today, spiritual care is as simple as sitting by a patient's bed, who is mostly unresponsive, and simply reading the Gospel of John to them for an hour. It is easy to think that such a simple thing is pointless and ineffective, but you would be grossly mistaken; for this is the same Word that spoke all things into existence. And from the testimony of families of other patients in similar situations, who weren't even present for such visits and whom I've never met, speak of their loved one's peace that surpasses all understanding as a result of such simple reading and prayer.

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

@ConvincedO @Roark___ Lord, have mercy upon us!

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

It is infinitely more hateful and disturbing to kill your unborn disabled child, whom you just acknowledged as your unborn child, which is a further admission of murder. To murder such a person is infinitely more hateful and disturbing than it is to be reprimanded got such evil. Repent, and grace and forgiveness will be given to you. If not, expect the Lord's wrath.

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

@KevinSmithtewdg @BioticCommando2 Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

Attending this would be a feckless endeavor. Nobody who engages on social media, including yours truly—except by some divine miracle—is open to changing their minds on anything.

[ZZZZZZIFFSTER @IFFFMEISTER]

Bro im crying 💀💀💀💀

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

Another journal of poems filled. Total count: 2,633 poems.

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

@EdKrassen Sure, and they will answer for it in the Judgement—for killing their disabled baby, and for abrogating their duty as parents because they were too cowardly to live a slightly more difficult life with a disabled child.

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

Sin is chocolate covered dog poop. https://t.co/ZC856jRnQZ

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

Every night when I do my compline prayers, my cat never fails to rub up against my legs the entire time, even after just feeding her rotund menace.

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

Your error is subtle. It sounds like you're defending Adam by calling his act “trust,” yet you've actually dressed disobedience in the clothing of virtue. Adam didn't receive the command from Eve; he received it from God (Genesis 2:16–17). When he chose the word of a creature over the word of the Creator, he did not act from faithful love; he acted from man-pleasing and fear of losing human peace. Holy love never asks a man to break God’s commandment, and true headship never follows another into sin simply to preserve harmony (Acts 5:29). If the “one flesh” bond is invoked to justify disobedience, then the bond itself has been turned into an idol. Adam’s first duty as husband was to guard the command, to teach it, to intercede, and to refuse the fruit. Instead, he surrendered the priesthood of his house in one silent bite.

And your contrast of motives is also too confident, as if you were present in Eden and could read their hearts without remainder. What hubris! Scripture says the woman saw the tree was “good for food,” “pleasant to the eyes,” and “desirable to make one wise” (Genesis 3:6). That's a mixture of bodily appetite and the lure of self-exaltation—in a word, of the passions. Yet Adam’s motive is not thereby purified. The same verse says she “gave also to her husband with her, and he ate” (Genesis 3:6). His sin is marked by unquestioning compliance—the weakness Irenaeus mocks—not by innocence. If he truly “trusted” in a virtuous way, he would have examined the request by the divine Word and resisted for her sake. Trust that ignores God’s command is not trust; it is negligence.

This is precisely why Irenaeus’ fragment is so incisive. He isn't praising Eve’s fall; he's striking at a common excuse: Blaming the woman as though Adam were merely a victim. Irenaeus points out that Eve at least endured a contest with a demon and was deceived (Genesis 3:13), while Adam—who received the command directly—offered no resistance when a fellow human handed him the fruit. That doesn't make Eve righteous; it exposes Adam’s culpability. The Holy Fathers often emphasize that Adam’s sin includes a failure to guard, to teach, to refuse, and to repent promptly, because after eating, he also hides and shifts blame (Genesis 3:12). “The woman whom You gave…” is not the speech of noble marital loyalty; it is the speech of a man already twisting love into self-justification.

So the "correction" that “Eve’s pride was worse; Adam’s pleasing was understandable," is grossly erroneous. The lesson is that both fell, yet Adam’s fall has a particular gravity because of his role and because of how easily he yielded. Eve listened to a serpent; Adam listened to a human voice against a divine command. Eve was deceived; Adam was compliant. Eve’s weakness was exploited; Adam’s weakness was sloth. And this is why the healing must reach both: The woman must learn discernment, the man must learn courage, and both must learn obedience that prefers God over every created voice (cf. Matthew 10:37; Acts 5:29).

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

St Irenaeus COOKED Adam:

"If you say that the serpent attacked the woman because she was the weaker of the two, I reply that, on the contrary, she was the stronger, since she appears to have been the helper of the man [Genesis 2:18] in the transgression of the commandment. For by herself alone she resisted the serpent, and it was only after holding out for a while and offering resistance that she ate of the tree, and that because she was deceived; but Adam, offering no resistance whatsoever, nor refusal, partook of the fruit handed to him by the woman—an indication of the utmost stupidity and weakness of mind on his part. As for the woman, since she was vanquished in the contest by a demon, she deserves pardon; but Adam deserves none, since he was worsted by another human being—and he was the one who, in his person, had received the command from God!" (Irenaeus of Lyons, Fragment #16).

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

"Do you not know that the mother of the beginning of wickedness is pride?" (The Rule of Pachomius at Tabenna §1). #HappyPrideMonth

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

A poem based on Psalm 1:1-3. https://t.co/ZC856jRnQZ

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

"When God invented the plan of the two sexes, He placed in them the desire of each other and joy in union. So He put in bodies the most ardent desire of all living things, so that they might rush most avidly into these emotions and be able by this means to propagate and increase their kind... Let each one, then, as far as he is able, train himself to modesty, cultivate shame, and protect chastity of both conscience and mind" (Lactantius, The Divine Institutes 6.23).

#HappyPrideMonth

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

@John_markos_ Lord, have mercy.

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

A satire that's probably not a satire. https://t.co/ZC856jRnQZ

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

@garyandglendah1 @SoMuchBloodJoe Lol. I'm a vet who gets medicated for his own protection.

[Hallowed Autistic ☦️🎷📚 @orthodoxscribe]

@tigers Happy Sodom & Gomorrah Month!