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[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

patriot act and seeing the continuation of right wing authoritarianism

The Patriot Act was an overwhelmingly bipartisan bill.

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You're just redefining terms. It's the same thing. If Twitter or Lemmy wants to block those things that's fine. I would agree that social networks should try to maintain some sense of decency on their platforms. The government shouldn't be involved though.

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

This is (mostly) a different point and I'm not going to engage with it. Suffice it to say that hate speech isn't a slippery slope it's the bottom of the mountain. If such a policy is ever enacted it will be abused and used to persecute people.

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

While not pacifistic Christianity is non-violent. If someone claims to be a Christian and beats up a homosexual for "no reason" then they are sinning. This, also, is completely irrelevant to the argument I was making.

Everyone tries to enforce their views. You, I assume, want to enforce your world view of radical tolerance for [issue here] at the expense of someone elses ability to criticize it. Your neighbor might want to define hate speech as anything that violates Sharia law.

What we have now (which is no restriction on hate speech) is actually the best policy.

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
  1. The Orthodox Christian God is all knowing. Evil is the absence of Good. (e.g. darkness is the absence of light)

  2. Similarly this God is all powerful and has already defeated evil through the sanctification of man's nature through the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. Faith and cooperation with the Holy Spirit is how man communes with God.

  3. Evil is the absence of good. So wherever people sin against God evil exists. Fallen beings exist as well because they too sinned against God but are eternally damned whereas man is redeemable.

God is indescribable and inconceivable. He created a church on Earth so that we can worship him. Worshipping God is good for us not just because God is good to us but because he literally is "good". In a world without God good and evil don't exist.

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 weeks ago

Logic presupposes God. If God operates outside of time he can certainly operate outside of other frameworks we use to perceive the world. The human brain can fit in a bucket. Naturally understanding God is an impossibility.

The epicurian paradox presupposes false premises.

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 weeks ago

Define "good".

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Metropolitan Jonah (ROCOR) gives an informative lecture on the history of Russian Orthodoxy in America.

Ever wonder why there are so many overlapping jurisdictions in North America? American bishops were at a synod in Moscow when Lenin's bolshevik coup started. The bishops were murdered. This decapitated the Orthodox church in America and prevented the fulfillment of unifying differing jurisdictions into a larger body. The results are still visible today.

The communists murdered over 250,000 clergy and 20 million Christians over the course of the Soviet era. As a result ROCOR is perhaps one of the strongest anti-communist organizations in the United States today.

 

"Grandfather Dobri" was a beautiful philanthropist beggar who gave everything be had to the revitalization of churches throughout Bulgaria. While the editing is a bit hokey this documentary tells the story of a powerfully humble Orthodox Christian who truly gave his life over to God.

 

Sharing an image that outlines the key dates, themes and participation how-to's as we approach Pascha this year. Glory to God!

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