grokgins

God's battle axe and weapon of war

[grokgins @scroggzilla]

@YeFutureSaint @ATradCatholic I love both of them but I'm saving this because it's legit hilarious.

[MO @Abu_Salah9]

بتهمة جمع الخضار والزهور البرية.

لحظة قيام الجيش الاسرائيلي بترويع واختطاف أطفال فلسطينيين لمكان مجهول

لولا وجود منصات مثل X لما وصلت هذه المشاهد للعالم

فضحهم واجب على كل حُر حول العالم.

[The Babylon Bibi @TheBabylonBibi]

@FoxNews

[Orthodox Ethos @OrthodoxEthos]

In Orthodox patristic commentary, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is understood as a consequence of a total spiritual collapse rather than a single transgression. Early Church Fathers, particularly St. John Chrysostom, cite four primary reasons for the conflagration:
•Acts Against Nature: The Fathers, including Chrysostom, highlight the rampant homosexual violence and rape as a definitive violation of the natural order and an insult to the sanctity of marriage.
•Inhospitality and Cruelty: Echoing the Prophet Ezekiel (Ezekiel 16:49), the Fathers emphasize that the people were arrogant, self-indulgent, and completely unconcerned with aiding the poor or welcoming strangers. Refusing hospitality in the ancient world was tantamount to abandoning the defenseless to death.
•Extreme Pride and Haughtiness: The inhabitants lived in careless ease and gluttony, growing wealthy but failing to recognize that their abundance was a gift meant to be shared.
•The Failure of Even Ten Righteous: God’s patience was immense, but the moral decay was total. As revealed in the Genesis narrative (Genesis 18), God would have spared the entire region if He could have found just ten righteous people

[grokgins @scroggzilla]

It's a wide spread problem. It's not most. It's still much less than 50% are caught doing really creepy stuff, and the red flag before that point is looking at the position as a chance at personal gain. People who are humble and truly Pious rarely if ever have those issues.

Also, you can't give me specifics. That's because you're ignorant of what you're trying to speak authoritatively about. You're generalizing about Christianity in general while I'm very focused and setting the parameters within the orthodox church and you don't know anything about it to be able to make an assessment. You should figure out things about that before commenting on it. You're the most foolish of fools for acting in this way.

[grokgins @scroggzilla]

@carl_not_me @seethroughit2 @pearlythingz Can you give me examples of this being the case? Cause I think you're thinking of Roman catholicism.

[grokgins @scroggzilla]

@poperespecter1 @TheOtherPaul2 You're just happy that you don't have to contend with him anymore, though. That's the reason you're doing this pile on.

[grokgins @scroggzilla]

@poperespecter1 @TheOtherPaul2 I'll yield this one to you though.

[grokgins @scroggzilla]

@poperespecter1 @TheOtherPaul2 Are coptics not identified as brown in our stupid americanized lingo for identifying skim colors?

[grokgins @scroggzilla]

@poperespecter1 @TheOtherPaul2 Is identifying the race of a person racism?

[grokgins @scroggzilla]

@poperespecter1 @TheOtherPaul2 I don't remember. Did he? What rule does that violate and do Antiochians and ROCOR hold to the same rules of online conduct?

[grokgins @scroggzilla]

I only see 2 things in that list could apply to Dier or Orthobros more generally: personal insults (which I'm not sure applies because it's qualified later with "any other illegal activity") and respect for Heirarchs, which Jay has generally done but he hasn't pulled punches on some oca bishops teaching heresy and he's called out constantinople and goarch for globalist ties and ecumenism.

[grokgins @scroggzilla]

@SizerTanya @seethroughit2 This wasn't in reference to his disciples, who were Jewish.

[grokgins @scroggzilla]

@TheHyland3r @wydblaise This is all a psyop to destroy our civilization.

[grokgins @scroggzilla]

@SizerTanya @seethroughit2 You're playing a semantic game on the Christ's ethnicity. Ancient Israelites were called jews. That doesn't mean that rabbinic talmudic Judaism is the religion that he practiced.

[grokgins @scroggzilla]

@SizerTanya @seethroughit2 Retarded take

[. @HosannaHosannaa]

“Fr. Daniel Sysoev had this thirst for Truth. He understood what is good and what is evil. He did not conceive of Orthodox theology as Orthodox philosophy, as an occasion for babbling. No. He took it seriously. He understood what the Church is and that salvation is possible only within it. He understood that to be saved, we have to be within the Church and we have to well know our faith to build a life in accordance with it. He knew the Sacred Scriptures, the canons of the Church, the lives of the saints, and the liturgical texts exceptionally well and constantly referred to them as the foundation of his position.
Fr. Daniel’s classmate at the Moscow Theological Seminary, Fr. Alexei Limarev, recalls, “We love theology, but few could boast that they knew the teachings of the Holy Fathers. Daniel knew them. That’s why many students loved him.” This is what distinguished Fr. Daniel: The soundness of his position. He never spoke just from himself. He knew the Sacred Scriptures well. He would read the entire Bible during Great Lent. He fasted until 3:00 PM every Wednesday and Friday, as the Typikon prescribes. He always wore his cassock. We are always embarrassed about our faith. We are embarrassed to cross ourselves before eating when we’re in some public place. But Fr. Daniel was not embarrassed. Being out in a public place with like-minded people, he would get up and starting singing prayers before eating. He would sing loudly. Many people would even applaud. He constantly went on all sorts of TV and radio programs, where he spoke on very difficult topics and uncompromisingly defended the Truth. He stressed that Orthodox Christians must always take the opportunity, if it arises, to go on secular television and radio, and use this opportunity for preaching, for mission work. Once, Fr. Daniel said that one of the programs he participated in scored the highest ratings of the year. Fr. Daniel didn’t have to be liberal with anyone, to adapt himself to anyone, to try to please someone. He told it like it is, as the Holy Fathers teach, as it is written in the Sacred Scriptures, and this would arouse interest.”

[grokgins @scroggzilla]

@tanylake Have you ever investigated an Orthodox church near where you live?

[grokgins @scroggzilla]

@tanylake Maybe? It was a curiosity about something your post prompted.