@PaulVanderKlay@Sophiologist_ I'm sorry. I think my point stands but I hate feeling like am supposed to play this role. Xwitter makes it feel like that. I hate these kinds of things. Love you Paul. Gonna log off now and not come back.
@PaulVanderKlay@Sophiologist_ Here's a reddit thread with some info and conversation around it, there are many other similar posts, too.
https://t.co/XB95UH13PL
Just reading the substack, there is a lot of language tricks going on to incite. Of course the person is not writing neutrally.
@PaulVanderKlay I think Scott Adams said that Amazon is the worst for book sales because of issues like this. Also fake sellers printing their own copies of a new popular book.
They apparently take weeks to take down fakes and such.
I don't think anyone in this debacle has mentioned, but if a company wants public attention and to remind people that they love the brand, almost ruining it temporarily is apparently a good way to control a whole 2 weeks of attention.
This is probably the exact sort of thing the Archbishop wanted to avoid. If anyone wants to stand for Archbishop Alexei, you can remain silent and let his apology stand and let him move on with his work. Otherwise you are roping him in to a culture war.
He was put in a difficult place, and he apparently tried to handle it with grace, and without causing division. The Russian President wants to meet you, a bishop of Russians outside Russia, and give your church a gift, how can you refuse?
@PaulVanderKlay To them it's new, if "them" is the audience. I don't think the Orthodox are as new to all this stuff as you think, it's just the demand and visibility that is suddenly up. With higher demand comes greater supply. For better or worse.
The defining features of a pagan society are slavery and human sacrifice, so it shouldn’t surprise us to see their resurgence in a post-Christian America.