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  1. Christos Anesti

    Why Love Hurts.

    Greetings citizens of Christian Forum . I've been away for a while now but I finally got the bug to come back and discuss a few things again. Normally I think it's best for me to shut my mouth and open my ears but now and then I like to unload my thoughts and get some feedback...
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    Russian Patriarch Honors Communist Party Leader

    Communist Party of the Russian Federation Political party. Known in Russian as the Kommunisticheskaia partiia Rossiskoi federatsii, the KPRF is the political successor to the banned Communist Party of the Soviet Union, also known as the Bolshevik Party. Out of the ashes of the banned...
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    Russian Patriarch Honors Communist Party Leader

    I guess the leader of the Communist party actually attends Church fairly regularly and has called the previous persecution of Christians a mistake. Apparently 1/3 of the members of the party identify as Christian now. There was another thread here about that: 1/3 of Russian Communist Party...
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    More than three quarters of conservatives say the poor “have it easy”

    I think conservatives might not necessarily disagree with the "hard life" part you just aren't going to get many of them to agree that the lack of programs play a role in that. Sometimes conservatives even try to say that receiving say food stamps or welfare makes life harder than easier...
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    What is the proper label for a social conservative but fiscally liberal?

    Exactly. Collective ownership of the means of production isn't some minor issue it's the defining feature of socialism. It's what makes an economic system socialist. It doesn't make sense to widen the meaning of the term beyond all recognition so that it includes people who prefer a...
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    What is the proper label for a social conservative but fiscally liberal?

    Using the extra broad redefining of the term socialism I guess we will have to throw out the common idea that capitalism defeated socialism with the fall of the Soviet Union and all that. Just the opposite has apparently taken place. Socialism has conquered the US and Europe. Apparently it...
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    Obama in the Light of History

    sorry wrong thread...
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    Why are minorities and women often poorer than white males?

    That's simply not true. Discrimination has taken place against Asian Americans and continues to this day. In fact racism against Asians seems very common where I live ** and I don't see how it could fail to play out in actual incidents of discrimination. You might be right in your claim that...
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    What is the proper label for a social conservative but fiscally liberal?

    I'm just going by the traditional definition of "socialism" that has been used for generations and can still be found in our dictionaries today: Full Definition of SOCIALISM (Merriam Webster) 1 : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental...
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    What is the proper label for a social conservative but fiscally liberal?

    A Radical Centrist or maybe Third Wayist? They combine positions from both sides of the political perspective. What you described really isn't socialism of any variety unless it includes collective ownership of the means of production. High taxes on the wealthy, welfare programs, and single...
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    Evolution Demographics

    Done. Looks like you attracted a good number of respondents.
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    EO & evolution

    The writings and life story of Fr Seraphim Rose played a role in attracting me to Orthodoxy. Obviously I don't agree with him on this issue but I'm glad to have come across him. He was also interested in Guenonian Traditionalism before he became Orthodox too. That's what caught my attention...
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    EO & evolution

    Many of the fathers appear to have taken for granted the "common sense" science of their time. Take for instance the idea that the earth sits unmoving, supported by waters, at the center of the universe, and that the sun revolves around it . You can even find a few examples of Saints and...
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    EO & evolution

    Here is Metropolitan Kallistos Ware on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSVPZykCRyQ
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    EO & evolution

    deleted. Doesn't add to discussion.
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    EO & evolution

    Here is one attempt to deal with the issue of death coming into the world via sin that I came across. Seems like it's worth taking into consideration: Does Death Predate Adam? The first argument, evolution presupposes the change of generations. The change of generations presupposes...
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    EO & evolution

    If that's true then most creationists apparently don't understand that either. A good number of the books, web discussions, and articles refuting evolution do make an attempt to do science or to interpret scientific findings in novel ways. How did you come to that conclusion?
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    EO & evolution

    Before I came to the Orthodox Church I was really won over to the Traditionalist or Perennial Philosophy school of Rene Guenon and Schoun. This movement was very anti-modern and reactionary and as part of this general attitude it obviously rejected evolution. At the time I found some of the...
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    EO & evolution

    Hello everyone, Long time no see :) Our inability to reconcile the Biblical account of death entering the world with sin and the overwhelming physical / scientific evidence of evolution doesn't mean we have to reject the later. There is no guarantee that any individual Orthodox will have the...
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    Gay DNA?

    One thing I've found is that it's best to take articles that mix politics or religion with the scientific question with a very large grain of salt. If an article complains about "homosexual activists" it's bound to be incredibly biased against a genetic or inherited factor. On the other hand...