Recent content by dzheremi

I miss Russian propaganda in Syria. At least that was funny, with its collages of Putin and Asaad holding hands surrounded by flowers and such. This is just pathetic.

First before anything, may God grant the petitions of all who have requested prayers or given them in this thread. I'm here now with probably my last post in a while because I'm moving in three days to a new apartment that is actually disability-accessible, so that I will hopefully be able to...

I may not be a huge fan of analogies, but I understand this one, and I feel like I follow it instinctively, because hey...chocolate. Yum. The phrase we use in the Egyptian Orthodox Church to express roughly the equivalent idea is الحرف قاتل (al-huruf qatl) "the letter kills", an obvious...

:oops: o_O (I suppose when words fail me, little emojis will have to do.)

Yes, they were occasionally brought up on the same subforum by Mormons as a way of trying to say "Look, Mormons can be 'orthodox' Christians, too!", which as you might imagine was not a popular move in that environment, but I will admit that they are an interesting bunch. If I recall correctly...

Ah, I see what you mean now. Thank you for explaining. Yes, that seems to be the case. It has been a few years since any of my atheist friends have put forth the idea that science can solve all problems (as though it has a moral dimension of its own, or would be naturally superior to 'religious...

How can it be dead when "New Atheism" is just old atheism via new technological means (YouTube, TikTok, etc.)? It's not like "New Coke" vs. "Old Coke", if that debacle ever reached your country. They haven't actually changed the 'recipe' all that much, just the means of delivery.

I'm not sure that this would directly apply to the people who are identifying as "Mainline" now, but I have noticed exactly the confusion you mention (concerning "Mainline" = "mainstream") among Mormons, of all people, on this very website. Back when the "Debate Other Religions" subforum was...

That's only one way to look at the fall, however. I think that kind of interpretation tends to be what predominates in western Christianity, but in the Christian east (churches like the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt, the Syriac Orthodox Church in Iraq/Syria/Turkey/India, the various Greco-Arab...

Well that's a shame, in that case. Not that I can't see why someone would do that (the term "Evangelical" does seem pretty tainted, at least in the U.S. context), but 'reactive' identification like this (e.g., "Of course I'm Orthodox...well I'm not going to be Roman Catholic!" :sick:) tends to...

As a wayyyy former Presbyterian (ages 0 to about 14), I appreciate this unlikely turn of events.

I don't know why you are replying as though we cannot look things up and have to go with what your sense of the matter is, but just so that it is clear to everyone here who may read this, here is The Times of Israel -- notably not me -- reporting the facts of the matter in September of last...

As I feel like I'm constantly saying with regard to LGBT everything on this website, I really don't understand why Evangelicals (or anybody else, for that matter) would considered the matter settled at simply declaring something (or someone...) a sin. "Don't be gay" is not even the top 1,000th...

Go on... :| Aw. Poor guy. I always feel bad for people with partially-reduplicated names like this, like my dad's best friend who named his son Tony even though his last name was very similar and very Italian already. The poor kid sounds like an entree at the Olive Garden. *Looks around at...

Improper foundation! Israel is not "the Jew", and a majority of the world's Jews do not even live there, presumably by choice/on purpose, given the "right of return" that people who have never lived there have, while people who are much less ambiguously from there are denied the same...