Orthodox Reflections
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A free speech platform for Orthodox Christians.
This is true. But when they lose persuasion what they have left is force. That makes this a very, very dangerous time for everyone. orthodoxreflections.com/the-techno-zio…
Israel is ramping up the hasbara and it's becoming more desperate by the minute. Now it's new denials, deflections, lies, and casting blame on the victims of the genocide itself. One ridiculous propagandist even said that the Gazans are holding the world "emotionally hostage."…
I’m used to Sunday attendance dropping to depressing levels during the summer months. Stepped in to serve a nearby parish. Packed. Absolutely packed. Happy to see all the people, but I am going to take something bordering on sleep in duration for a “nap” this afternoon.
The terrifying scenes in Taybeh last night as cars of Christians were set on fire by Israeli settlers at the Greek Orthodox Housing Project
Israeli settlers terrorized the Christian village of Taybeh in the West Bank, setting vehicles ablaze, hurling stones at homes, and writing threatening graffiti. Christians have experienced daily aggression from Jewish settlers while Israel’s government has done nothing to stop…
1) Are we going to demand knife control? 2) In a society in which everyone is expected to have a gun, society tends to be so much more polite. 3) martyrdom is a personal decision. Letting others die when you can stop it is not martyrdom. 4) Semper Fi!
Hero Derrick Perry is a Marine. Derrick is a good guy with a gun who stopped an armed assailant who stabbed 11 people at the Walmart in Traverse City, Michigan, and held him until police arrived. I love brave Good Samaritans!
Rumor is that quantum computing has stumbled across multiple dimensions. Our priest once described Angels as " interdimensional beings". Quite rightly. Reality as we experience is one dimension to which sin has banished us. Adam walked with God. Way more complex than we admit.
Imagine not understanding that clean water, refrigeration, and garbage collection are primarily responsible for our doubled life expectancy along with really basic antibiotics and antiseptic practices during surgery.
Imagine not understanding the doubling of life expectancy over the last 100 years
This is not speaking in tongues This is delusion.
I've been a charismatic fellow-traveller for the last 11 years, and one time I almost became a charismatic: at a mass at a youth retreat with some devout youth, after communion, people in the congregation started spontaneously singing according to their own characteristic. 🧵
When Republicans are out of power, they speak so eloquently about "freedom of association" and "property rights". When in power, here you go. Many of us want to found an Orthodox community. More than one. That is religious discrimination, right? Why is freedom so unfree?
Arkansas’ Republican Attorney General Tim Griffin has launched an investigation into Return to the Land, a White-centric intentional community founded by Eric Orwoll in the Ozarks. Griffin condemned the project for “racial discrimination” and alleged that it raises “all sorts of…
No. You cannot be pro life and pro war. The default position of Orthodox Christians is pro peace. War is a tragedy. It might be a necessary tragedy, but a tragedy nonetheless. We hate war. We hate abortion. Our society worships war, but fears death. No wonder we are insane.
Nonsense. Purposely aborting babies has nothing to do with whether a war is just or necessary. This is the same kind of low-IQ nonsense liberals use when they say you can’t be pro-life and anti-welfare or pro-death penalty. No. Being pro-life is about abortion. Period.
America - your turn. And if you think the 1st Amendment protects Satanism, then you have never read American history.
MOSCOW — On Wednesday, the Russian Supreme Court designated the “International Satanism Movement” as an extremist organization, banning its activities nationwide, effective immediately, with a one-month appeal period, per RBC. uoj.news/en/news/84855-…
There is no earthly millennial Kingdom the way Prots believe. We are in the Millennial Kingdom now, the Age of the Church. When Christ returns, this world is done and we enter eternity. Millennialism is a dangerous heresy. orthodoxreflections.com/building-the-k…
Someone I trust solemnly informed me today that the apocalypse is coming September 23. World ends, evil perish, Heaven on Earth for a thousand years. Thoughts?
Orthodox Christians deprived of priests can have reader's services, communal prayer, Bible study, and even baptize in extreme circumstances. In other words, everything Protestants do, except pretend to consecrate the Eucharist. Orthodox survive persecution.
Okay, enjoy the dread you have to experience in prison when they throw every Christian in there because it's impossible for you to preach, worship, pray or take communion without a man in a funny hat? I'll be happy to lead you when we get there.
The conversation is between Roman Catholics and Orthodox. The rest of you can listen and learn.
If your church didn’t give the world the Bible, it shouldn’t be interpreting it.
Before the Bible Was Bound, the Church Was Breathing One of the biggest misunderstandings people have about the Eastern Orthodox Church is that we treat "Tradition" like some extra layer of man made rules on top of Scripture. But the truth is much simpler. Before the New…
Thanks @UncutMountain can't recommend this book enough!
Mr. Carlson, We, the Armenian community of Jerusalem, have been waging a peaceful struggle for over 600 days to stop an illegal land deal that threatens our very existence. At stake is not just the properties of genocide-surviving families—but the survival of our 1,700-year-old…
“Israel sold weapons to Azerbaijan to carry out the ethnic cleansing of ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh.” - @AnaKasparian