Category: Sins of the Orthodox
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Holy Ignorance
Holy Ignorance Today a populist religious current prevails in the Church (comprising laypeople, clergy, and monks), a current zealous for the faith. I say it honestly: there is zeal for Christ. We are not more zealous than them nor more faithful, but as the Apostle Paul says: “I bear them witness that they have…
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No Compassion for the Heretics?
Yesterday I read many posts and comments about the assault on Metropolitan Mar Mari Emmanuel. One of the posts that spread on some pages of Orthodox / by Orthodox people says: ” no compassion for the heretics” I will shed light on this phrase from several angles: First: for one who understands only the language…
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The New Heresy
The Orthodox world today suffers from numerous divisions on the ecclesiastical level, for you see the various schisms and quarrels plainly and without concealment, affecting our internal community and our dealings with both the Christian and the non-Christian world. And on the other hand there is no longer a unified Orthodox vision of the world,…
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Constantinople and Byzantine Glories
The idea of Constantinople and the glories of Byzantium still lingers in the minds of some Christians, and today they see, in the attempt to convert the Church of Hagia Sophia into a mosque and to hold prayers in it, an offense to Christianity and to its civilization, as though the face of Christianity were…
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The Tragedy of the Byzantines
The sin of the Orthodox today is that they remain stuck in the dream of restoring the glories of ancient Byzantium, for since the fall of the empire and its glories until today, their mad dream breaks them. Therefore you see the weakness of the ecclesiastical administrations in that they submit to the state and…