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Lord have mercy! Good thing you added your disclaimer.
But those seeking do not know this. And yes this is an issue.
I did. The purpose is to drive anti-Orthodox thought masking as Orthodox thought promoting the devil’s agenda to rile us up in racial fear and hate in the name of fighting injustice to splinter us into civil war, as well as to increase thought opposed to our Faith among the faithful, making them ultimately not faithful. Supporting sexual anarchy (being against the banning of the alphabet soup “LGBTXYZ” being an example of that, when we have iron-clad teaching about sexuality and the family).
The history of Orthodox teaching (dogma) is precisely one of telling some Orthodox Christians that their ideas about the Orthodox Faith are wrong and anti-Orthodox and forbidding and banning them (“anathema”). See Arius, for one of many.
The difference being that MAGA supporters are not starting riots, breaking down gates, charging onto people’s property and threatening them, conducting insurrection and creating “CHAZ” zones, and killing people. They have no organized movement to racially divide, and condemn all murder, of blacks and whites equally. Their supporters do not support sexual anarchy.
But “being poisoned” is subjective. You can find evil thoughts and deeds among its adherents. But you cannot find collective, organized support for such evil as you can with BLM, which is on its face anti-Christian. Trying to disown that organization while fully supporting its logo (logismoi?) is disingenuous.
That’s just spin. She and her group didn’t shoot anyone. My point, based in truth, is that the people ready to kill are the ones crying “BLM”. Even now you defend them against her.
I'm not suppprting the logo.
The statement is a smaller thing, a lesser and more controversial thing (ie, you have a small leg to stand on in defending the proposition, one which , since our Liturgy affirms the value of all lives, is unnecessary for Orthodox Christians to say. We already say that all lives matter, which includes black lives. But BLM supporters notably doNOT condemn black lives killed by the riots themselves. It really IS a political and not a moral movement that accepts only one agenda - the victimhood of minorities, and anything that challenges that narrative is ignored. We don’t need even the statement, “black lives matter”, let alone the logo which has been claimed by the organization which is not a mere web page, as gzt would have us believe, but which represents real people receiving real money and organizing very real anarchy on our streets. Which you guys spend essentially no breath or ink or kilobytes condemning. And if you did, you’d have to come to admit that the logo is connected to those things. Which, it seems, you don’t want to admit.
No. If they acknowledged that problem they would speak of the need for fathers, and pronounce the word. They very carefully and explicitly do not. “...mothers, parents, and children”. The “nuclear family” is just a modern term for the ancient formula of father-mother-child, around which extended family can grow, but without which cannot exist. They deliberately exclude the term “father”, irrationally saying “mothers” and “parents”. A more obvious effort to avoid saying “father” could hardly be imagined, and it would be stupid in the extreme, deliberate self-deception, to deny it.
You wish it hadn’t been clearly elucidated. It has. You just ignore it, and say that we aren’t saying anything of substance. You might as well say that the Bolsheviks were just one organization among several, that there were plenty of “true Communists” who weren’t Bolsheviks. Historically, it didn’t matter. Were there people of good intentions among the Communists of the early twentieth century? Of course. But the peaceful majority, if it was peaceful, didn’t matter. They were swept out of power by the minority that called itself a majority and the bloody history of the Soviet Union after having torn apart the (however degraded) Christian Russian Empire was the result.
There is no right to do wrong. Rights exist in order to do right. Engaging in sexual congress outside of marriage (one man+one woman in faithful monogamy for life) is sin, condemned explicitly as such by our Faith. You cannot protect “rights” to engage in such conduct and call yourself a faithful Orthodox Christian. To do so means that you reject clear and established Church teaching. You MUST admit that sexual anarchy is evil, by whatever name it chooses to call itself, in this case by an acronym that masks its true meaning, implying that ontologically, their passions are a natural, right and proper form of their being, rather than fallen passions that they experience, just as we experience other fallen passions, which is what the Church teaches us and you are bound to accept, or leave the Church. The one option you don’t have is to stay in the Church and teach that these passions are “rights” and not sin when engaged in.
