>>512210891
it's shameful in germany to collect recyclables for money? Dude if you need help just go to Church.

>>512181729
Christ called people hypocrites. Whether or not I hurt your feelings does not change the fact that you are indeed a coward, scared of interacting with ideas and insecure of your own worldview.

>>510321598
I appreciate you. Not just in this thread but your posts throughout and on occasion that I see. I will say to you that it has always been the Christian understanding that, since the Church is the Body of Christ, that if you want the full Jesus Christ, you must also find Him in the Church as well, in all its members. Christians are people who are "in Christ" and to be in Christ is to be Baptized into His Body, of which there is only One Body (St Paul's Epistle to the Church in Ephesus, Ch 4:4-6) which is the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, the Orthodox Church.

>>509711505
The Orthodox Church doesn't hold to that view.
Here is a useful article from our Metropolitan to give some history about the subject.

https://www.antiochian.org/regulararticle/2443

>>507801663
Catholics can't answer this question.
As an Orthodox Christian, my priest says that if the Metropolitan starts spouting heresy, our parish won't go along with it.
The Metropolitan says that if the Patriarch starts spouting heresy, then the Archdiocese of North America won't go along with it.

has worked for 2000 years and our Church, the true Church, isn't gay as aids.

https://youtu.be/GOYa4dtuq18

>>507797586
Shut up fag, you're not that special. You are right with this thread that the sagrada familia is evil and demonically inspired. Don't take that too far in the opposite direction though.

>>507516353

As an Orthodox Christian, I grieve your distorted view of history—a narrative that ignores both the essence of Christ’s Church and the witness of Her saints. Let me respond with truth:

On "Oppressive Regimes"
Yes, earthly rulers *misused* Christ’s name for power—a sin condemned by the Church herself. When emperors like Julian the Apostate or Communists persecuted us, or when kings twisted faith for control, the *true Church* resisted. St. John Chrysostom was exiled for rebuking Empress Eudoxia’s excesses. St. Maximus the Confessor had his tongue cut for defying a heretical emperor. The Kingdom we serve is *not of this world* (John 18:36).

The Church Built on Martyrs, Not Thrones
For 2,000 years, the Church thrived *without* state power—often under persecution. Roman arenas, Ottoman jizya, Soviet gulags… yet the blood of martyrs *watered the faith*. When stripped of "governmental backing" in the 20th century, Russia’s Catacomb Church *grew*—proving Christ’s promise: "*The gates of hell shall not prevail*" (Matt. 16:18). Our "authority" is the Cross, not crowns.

Who Truly "Suppressed Dissent"?
Atheist regimes murdered 100 million in the 20th century alone. Meanwhile, the Orthodox Church birthed universities, hospitals, and the very concept of *mercy*. St. Basil the Great founded the first homeless shelter. St. Seraphim of Sarov fed bears from his hand. Our "dogma" is love: "*Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life*" (John 15:13).

The Irony of "Moralizing Cowards"
You scorn us as "useful idiots"—yet we outlasted every empire that hunted us. Nero’s Rome? Ash. Soviet gulags? Closed. We remain, chanting the *same Liturgy* as St. John in Patmos. Why? Because "*we do not wrestle against flesh and blood*" (Eph. 6:12). Our weapon is prayer, our fortress the Eucharist—and this terrifies tyrants.

Where Chaos Reigns, Christ Answers
You sneer at "chaos" as freedom—but Christ offers true liberation* from sin. Atheism gave us genocide.

>>22829465

As an Orthodox Christian, I grieve your distorted view of history—a narrative that ignores both the essence of Christ’s Church and the witness of Her saints. Let me respond with truth:

On "Oppressive Regimes"
Yes, earthly rulers *misused* Christ’s name for power—a sin condemned by the Church herself. When emperors like Julian the Apostate or Communists persecuted us, or when kings twisted faith for control, the *true Church* resisted. St. John Chrysostom was exiled for rebuking Empress Eudoxia’s excesses. St. Maximus the Confessor had his tongue cut for defying a heretical emperor. The Kingdom we serve is *not of this world* (John 18:36).

The Church Built on Martyrs, Not Thrones
For 2,000 years, the Church thrived *without* state power—often under persecution. Roman arenas, Ottoman jizya, Soviet gulags… yet the blood of martyrs *watered the faith*. When stripped of "governmental backing" in the 20th century, Russia’s Catacomb Church *grew*—proving Christ’s promise: "*The gates of hell shall not prevail*" (Matt. 16:18). Our "authority" is the Cross, not crowns.

Who Truly "Suppressed Dissent"?
Atheist regimes murdered 100 million in the 20th century alone. Meanwhile, the Orthodox Church birthed universities, hospitals, and the very concept of *mercy*. St. Basil the Great founded the first homeless shelter. St. Seraphim of Sarov fed bears from his hand. Our "dogma" is love: "*Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life*" (John 15:13).

The Irony of "Moralizing Cowards"
You scorn us as "useful idiots"—yet we outlasted every empire that hunted us. Nero’s Rome? Ash. Soviet gulags? Closed. We remain, chanting the *same Liturgy* as St. John in Patmos. Why? Because "*we do not wrestle against flesh and blood*" (Eph. 6:12). Our weapon is prayer, our fortress the Eucharist—and this terrifies tyrants.

Where Chaos Reigns, Christ Answers
You sneer at "chaos" as freedom—but Christ offers true liberation* from sin. Atheism gave us genocide.