Apollos Cassian

Orthodox Christian sharing thoughts on the mundane and occasionally significant. I believe in reasoned, courteous discourse.

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

@jaydyer @AnaniasFather
My brothers in Christ...

[Shayne Swenson Icons ☦︎ @ShayneSwenson]

The Orthodox Church is FULL of the most spiritually diseased people on earth.

It makes perfect sense however as it’s the only place in the universe where the cure for our terminal prognosis can be found.

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

@ShayneSwenson Indeed, it is a great challenge. I’m learning firsthand that partiality is often shown to those with popularity.

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

I'm a nobody in this arena. Jay, the apologist of the faith, couldn't let a 20min call go. He had to spread false information about me. He persisted and spreaded more false information on Sunday. If you brothers called him to account and he removed his slander, I would not be here. Im not the one with the platform that persisted in lying about another brother in Christ. Have you expressed concern about what Jay has done to him?

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

Brothers, I will never ask you for money. I will never sell you anything. This is not a brand, a career, or an attempt to profit from controversy.

I am engaging this for a season, and Lord willing, it will not be long.

Seek out priests, monks, and faithful Orthodox voices who defend the faith while striving to speak and act like men formed by Christ.

There is no room under the banner of Orthodoxy for slandering a brother in Christ.

Christ is our King!

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

@jaydyer @AnaniasFather
My brothers in Christ...

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

@_captainswish For several years I served the homeless in Seattle as a case manager. Good work you're doing brother with the prayer booklet.

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

Titus 2:6-9

"Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us."

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

My brother in Christ Jim, who defends my other brother who spreads lies about me. I'm grateful Jay has brought me out of retirement. Long before Jay was doing this I was debating with atheists on YouTube. He's slander does not phase me, but it grieves me that the one doing this is my brother in Christ. Rest assured, I am not going anywhere until I see the tables in the temple turned over.

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

Orthodox brothers, take your anonymous online persona and show your priest what you’re doing.

Tell him an Orthodox brother named Apollos Cassian talked with @JayDyer for about 20 minutes. Tell him Apollos said some things awkwardly and could have framed his concerns better.

Then tell him what happened afterward.

Jay said Apollos was Catholic, even though Apollos clearly stated he was Orthodox. Jay then spread more false information, calling Apollos an ecumenist. The next day, Jay claimed Apollos is "actually insane.” None of that is true.

So if you believe mocking, misrepresenting, and spreading false claims about an Orthodox brother is righteous, bring it into the light. Show your priest your posts, your replies, and your accusations.

Ask yourself, is this of Christ? Not online Orthodoxy. Not influencer apologetics. Not tribal loyalty. Christ.

If he has questions, you have my name. I’m reachable on Facebook.

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

Since Jay has blocked me but I haven't blocked him and he likes to drop a comment, tell him I said, thanks for bringing me out of retirement. Also let him know, SSRI's are for depression not narcolepsy. Lastly, let him know I will not be spreading lies about him, like he has about me. Christ calls us to love one another!

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

Orthodox brothers, @jaydyer

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

@patristic_faith someone spreading lies about another brother in Christ and you remain in silence? Does Christ and His Church have a lower standard for apologists of the faith because they bring in converts?

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

Yesterday I called @jaydyer’s show. I told him I’m Orthodox, he called me a liar. He said I was “worse than Evangelicals, Muslims and OnlyFans whores.”

Today, he posted that I was Catholic and that people were gullible and needed discernment.

After I replied with a video of my baptism, he deleted the post.

No correction. No acknowledgement.

This is not about personal offense. It is about public Orthodox influence.

The question is not, “Can God use flawed men?” Of course He can.

The question is: when apologetics becomes misrepresentation, mockery, and contempt, what kind of formation is it producing?

If Orthodox apologetics trains men to crush rather than correct, to mock rather than discern, and to perform confidence rather than bear humility, then something has gone deeply wrong.

Truth matters. So does the spirit in which truth is defended.

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

@HonkeyHero18 @JayDyer Call me on Facebook Messenger, we can have a conversation about what you consider these substantive arguments to be. Name calling is not an argument.

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

@illustriousone5 @JayDyer Show your priest your social media and ask him for guidance. Ask him, if spreading lies about a brother in Christ gets a free pass if the person doing it is famous?

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

@HonkeyHero18 @JayDyer Name calling isn't an argument nor is it engagement with what's been said.

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

@HeinrichVStahl @ScottieD0ESknow @JayDyer Be sure to visit, come to Liturgy and let us tell each other, Christ is in our midst!

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

@JayDyer, this is beneath any Orthodox Christian public witness.
You are now using a video of me during a period of suffering and implying I am “mentally ill” in order to discredit me. I have type 1 narcolepsy, a neurological disorder that affects wakefulness, speech, cognition, and functioning. I have spoken openly about suffering because I believe Christ meets us there — not so it could be turned into mockery by an Orthodox public figure.
You can disagree with my questions. You can say I framed them poorly. I have already acknowledged that. But publicly misidentifying my faith, calling me unstable, insinuating things about my character, and now exploiting visible symptoms of illness is not correction. It is not discernment. It is not Orthodox.
This is exactly the concern I raised: when Orthodox apologetics becomes indistinguishable from influencer culture, the weak are mocked, the facts become secondary, and the audience is trained to confuse cruelty with zeal.
I am Orthodox. I am your brother in Christ. And this kind of public behavior needs to be rebuked plainly. Truth does not require mockery. Correction does not require humiliation. And defending the faith does not give anyone license to bear false witness against a brother.

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

@ScottieD0ESknow @JayDyer Does Jay posting more false information about me yesterday evoke that same call to righteousness in you?

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

@ScottieD0ESknow @HeinrichVStahl @JayDyer I get it, you prefer to be anonymous. When you decide to walk in the light of day let me know.

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

I told Jay I was Orthodox on the call and gave him the year, location and parish I was baptized at. How about you take your anonymous social media account and show your priest what you're doing?
Did you also tell Jay to make the post saying I'm Catholic? Did you tell him to ignore all the Orthodox videos on my X account? Did you tell him to post up that I'm an ecumenist? Did you tell him to post up yesterday that I have a mental illness?

Your man enough to acknowledge an error, which is what we should do as brothers in Christ. Jay blocked me after that call and then proceeded to spread lies, I'm not sure how that reflects manliness.

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

@ScottieD0ESknow @HeinrichVStahl @JayDyer Let's do a video call on Facebook Messenger. I'll tell you the name of my priest, you can also share what parish you go to. We can talk about the Gospel reading from this past Sunday.

[Apollos Cassian @T4Peace]

@fistofnicaea @clutchjohnson56 @JayDyer I appreciate your reply. To be clear, I have type 1 narcolepsy. This is a neurological disorder. This is not a mental illness as Jay has falsely stated.