Search Results
7/11/2025, 1:09:49 AM
>>510047651
>>510047687
Monasteries are lovely tradition, we owe a big thanks to the Coptic community for them & I would love to visit an Oriental Orthodox monastery sometime. However I will challenge your main idea OP, that they are the solution to societies problem.
Monasteries are sex exclusive. You can have a male monasteries, you can have a female convent. But they can’t be mixed sex. Thus monasteries cannot be the default societal model. They can leaven the lump, but they are not the lump.
The first thing that God saw that was NOTA Good was not original sin, but that man was alone. monasteries violate Edenic balance. But that is by design. Monks are not trying to restore Eden—they are bearing witness to the eschaton, the age to come, where, as Christ says, “they neither marry nor are given in marriage” (Matthew 22:30).
But your my stands: not everyone is called to that. Genesis 2:18. Monasteries are beautiful but they exist in remote place for unique men. They are something that God calls many, let alone society, to.
A better model for society to follow would be the Old Order Anabaptists such as the Amish and Hutterites. Maybe also draw on historical successes such as the Harmony Society.
I think that many men look at the state of the world and are drawn to RETVRN TO MONK. In reality monks are very strong people, they make great sacrifices and work hard. But that desire to flee I think is in part motivated by cowardice. It’s hard being a Monk, but it’s also hard to fix society. Hope this gave you something interesting to reflect on, God love you OP.
>>510047687
Monasteries are lovely tradition, we owe a big thanks to the Coptic community for them & I would love to visit an Oriental Orthodox monastery sometime. However I will challenge your main idea OP, that they are the solution to societies problem.
Monasteries are sex exclusive. You can have a male monasteries, you can have a female convent. But they can’t be mixed sex. Thus monasteries cannot be the default societal model. They can leaven the lump, but they are not the lump.
The first thing that God saw that was NOTA Good was not original sin, but that man was alone. monasteries violate Edenic balance. But that is by design. Monks are not trying to restore Eden—they are bearing witness to the eschaton, the age to come, where, as Christ says, “they neither marry nor are given in marriage” (Matthew 22:30).
But your my stands: not everyone is called to that. Genesis 2:18. Monasteries are beautiful but they exist in remote place for unique men. They are something that God calls many, let alone society, to.
A better model for society to follow would be the Old Order Anabaptists such as the Amish and Hutterites. Maybe also draw on historical successes such as the Harmony Society.
I think that many men look at the state of the world and are drawn to RETVRN TO MONK. In reality monks are very strong people, they make great sacrifices and work hard. But that desire to flee I think is in part motivated by cowardice. It’s hard being a Monk, but it’s also hard to fix society. Hope this gave you something interesting to reflect on, God love you OP.
Page 1