I'm a moderate Democrat, am I welcomed in here?

I'm a moderate leaning Democrat, am I welcomed here?

Yes, it's the Saint whom I've taken a name after

Is Christianity banned here?

I personally favour distributionism

What is communalism?

Jesus wasn't a commie

It is possible to be rich and go to heaven. It just becomes difficult because wealth leads many to becoming selfish and decadent

Some rich people that went to heaven (St. Constantine, St. Justinian)

Yes

Constantine and Justinian are Saints because of their Orthodoxy and love of God and the Church. Constantine ending the persecution of Christians with the Edict of Milan and incorporated Christians into his court, helped the Church end disputes and expelled heresy with Nicene Council, and eventually became the first Emperor to be baptised as a Christian. Justinian rooted at the Pagans within the Empire, expelled the reminent heretics in North Africa, dedicated huge sums of money for the construction of Churches and Aquaducts across the Empire (That helped the poor and provided beauty and stability)

The Roman Church is a heretic church, but it cannot be denied that the church does contribute heavily to giving to the poor and helping end suffering in Africa. What Rome has is their traditions and their ancient relics, as do the Orthodox. Does having gold make one a murderer?

So it's exploitation if I have a cross of gold that has been handed down for centuries?

Christians are allowed to make our churches grand, because we do so in honour of God. We make things that honour him and we have the right to make those things extravagant and beautiful. The only thing that could make this sort of thing horrible is being boastful of it, because it should be made as a glorification of God and not of the self

I'm not a Roman Catholic, so that "Vicar of Christ" mentality doesn't apply to me. I know of the evils promoted by the Catholics and their subsequent greed

But one cannot deny that the Church has done good in the world

The Orthodox Church is the church that Jesus Christ founded, the Apostles set up, and the Church fathers kept. There are bad men that use their authority to do horrible things in all institutions, but one cannot demonize an institution for a few bad men in a sea of many good

Morals provide foundations for us to deem what is right and what is wrong. It is because of morals that we do not wish to exploit our fellow man by robbing him or killing him

@Avehand1 It must be addressed that things are not perfect under any system, but systems are in place to uphold stability. For us Christians, we are subject to the rulings of the Kingdom of Heaven and of the Church. It must be emphasized that every Christian is a servant unto God and in this service of God he may find that he suffers profoundly, but this suffering is what makes him blessed and is what allows him to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

For it is written Romans 13:1 "13 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God."

It does not exploit the man, it makes him prepared for heaven. Because life is supposed to be in service to God, not of the world

Yes

We try to alleviate suffering and bondage where we can, but we're all servants to God

I respect your opinion, but I don't think you understand the church.

I'd appreciate if you didn't slander my church, thank you.

Because you make a generalisation that isn't accurate to the men who have served the church, and you have no understanding of the catechism of the church or of Holy Tradition

I think it has, the Orthodox Church has given profoundly to the world. But what can I say to you, who have come indoctrinated in anti religious doctrine? I remember Proverbs 26:4 in the case of you. And I wish you well and good night

@Avehand1

Wanted to post that before I left, was provided for me by a good friend of mine. How do you expect the church to function if it's rendered in the same state as those it's trying to help? How does it reach the poorest parts of the world if it cannot take a plane?

Capitalism, Communism, Fascism, and anything modern really is gay tbqh

Stop being gay

Theocratic Distributionism is the best

Fascism is modernist. It makes the state into God. I think that's gay

Whatever it may be, anything that promotes making something worldly supreme, whether it be nation, state, individual, collective into God is gay

God does exist, you're just a fag

We are nothing without God, it is foolish to go against the one that breathes life and meaning into anything. You atheists have no real justification in anything you do, it's all personal feeling for you. If a man came about claiming murder was just you'd have no real power to call him morally wrong because your morality has no authority or structure. It varies between all of you

Karl Marx was literally a Jew

He was a Jew, his bloodline was Jewish. He came from a long tradition of rabbis in his family

How do you know that? @Deleted User

Morality comes directly from God, without God you are not moral

Jesus Christ proved it

Eh, I'm bored of you commies. I'm going to be productive now

Later

/roles

Morality is defined by God and violations of the moral commandments declared by God can be punished by God in accordance to His will. As I have stated before, the old covenant was rigid and harsh in order to establish God's people and make them distinct from the rest of the world. In essence, it assured loyalty unto God. Jesus is not different in character from Yahweh because they are the same. They are God. When Jesus was incarnated in the flesh, he enacted the plan of God of mercy and the salvation of the gentiles. In the Old Testament, through the prophets, he established the laws and punishments for those laws. On the day of judgement, Jesus, being the God the Son, will testify to God the Father, of men in accordance to what they have done. If one has known Jesus and has followed him, mercy and glory shall be upon Him. If not, he will be cast out and into Gehenna for violation of God's commandments.

I really don't see any inconsistency

Morality is invariant, but how violations of those morals and turning to sin are dealt with in accordance to the established covenants. We draw principle from the Old Testament. We know the Adultery is a sin because God has declared it so. However, it is no longer sin to eat pork because we are under the new covenant.

@Thule-Gesellschaft [☩] The morality does not change, but the laws do in accordance to the need. If we follow the logic that Yahweh was not God and was instead something demonic than all that followed Yahweh's commandments are damned to Hell. There would be no salvation for those of the Old Testament faith.

Without the laws of the Old Testament, the New Testmanent has no substance or weight. There is no reason to follow the New Testament without the Old.

The prophecies give Christ the legitimacy to defy the Pharisees and to heal those afflicted by Demons on the Sabbath. I'd say that Moral Truths are what are in accordance to the will of God and are reflected throughout the teachings of the Prophets, Saints, Apostles, and Christ Himself. If your philosophy is wrong, which was the case of the Roman Catholics when they tried to define God and put Him into the box, your ideas and your morality are wrong. And this goes for everything, if God is not involved in it and it isn't derived from God I'd say it hardly lacks substance

To be moral you must submit firstly to God and recognise the fact that humans, despite their great ability to reason, are incompabable of fully holding to truth and goodness.

It is dangerous to speak on matters you do not hold comprehension about. Just because your personal intuition tells you you shouldn't give charity and you use logic to reason that the poor man is undeserving of charity does not make you correct.

Living in accordance to God's will is what makes a man moral, not of what he personally thinks. However, men should know that they do not always have the ability to hold so closely to God and His morality, and that they are weak and fallible before him.

The whole point of human life is to honour God and give glory unto Him as his servants. Doing this does not necessarily come from developing philosophy and constantly debating, but following what God has taught you because you love God. Despite it may not being immediately apparent. John 20:29

So you're telling me that God was unjust?

@Thule-Gesellschaft [☩] That is what he said. If we deny that, which is part of the First Commandment of the 10, we may also deny the seventh which forbids adultery.

You don't get to decide what is cruel or unjust, it is what God desires. They were killed for their opposition against the Israelites and their horrid idol worship that was too much of a stain against God's people and was corrupting His people.

The difference is that I worship the one God and they do not.

It is loyalty to God

You don't get to pick and chose what parts of the Bible you like. You either accept it or you don't.

I say that morality is defined by God and if God defines it as moral it is moral and if it isn't it isn't. There's no room for discussion.

God had a reason for destroying those tribes, as they threatened His people. He was justified in what He had done.

Threatened his people by corrupting them.

They were sources of corruption threatening identity of the Israelites.

We do not know the reasonings for what God has done to some and what He has done to others. We have no reason to question Him or any justification in doing so, because we are made to be in His Image and to give Glory unto Him.

Give me a moment, I'm formulating a response

Psalm 143:10 Shows us that the will of man and the will of God are not the same. This means that man will view some seemingly inconsistent things being done through the Old Testament and the New Testament, but they are not inconsistent if we are to believe that God is of the 3 o's. There is a plan to all of which God does and all in which God teaches. The teaching changes in accordance with new revelation but the will of God remains eternal. It is likely that God willed for mercy when he established the Old Covenant but also willed that his people keep strictly to Him and what was required for this was punishment. Ultimately, what makes man just, is living in accordance to principles and having Faith in God. The New Testament takes priority over the Old because the Old Covenant has been fufilled with Christ and a new covenant of great mercy has been established. This do not mean that justice has gone away, but rather the manifestation of God's mercy reigns in this now time. But God tells us that this time is finite and that we must repent if we are to be shielded from the full unadultered punishment of hell and sin.

You aren't led to Truth, which is God, through your reasoning or from the World. What leads you to God is beginning first with God and then establishing everything else from there. If you have no foundation, a building cannot stand.

So God expressing punishment and anger is in contradiction to mercy?

So God is acting unjustly when he punishes and destroys those who worship Baal and sacrifice children that are corrupting His people?

Was the destruction of Sodom and Gemorah unjust?

Why is a child innocent? Why would you live a vengeful seed in the ground to rise as yet another threat to the Israelites?

@Thule-Gesellschaft [☩] Despite them interacting and trading with the Israelites and members of the Israelites coming to them and being among them?

Salvation during this time was for the Israelites, not for Philistines or the Unjust peoples.

Was King David an Israelite?

You do know that Jesus is called the Son of David in his earthly form right? And that, through the geneology, was a biological Israelite.

So Christ is unjust and spread wickedness

By your logic, he'd be of the corrupt and wicked seed as an Israelite.

@agag He denies that the God of the Old Testament is the God of the new.

The prophecies give legitamacy to Christ and establish Him as divine.

You might as well ignore scripture then and develop your own idea on what Christ was outside of the people who actually spoke of Him and knew Him.

You cannot claim to follow Christ if you ignore what he taught.

We're reaching levels of retardation that shouldn't even be possible

Socialism and Liberalism in any of their forms have the big gay

@chattitude You're disgusting

@chattitude Are you an animal?

You could be a Muslim with your inner desires

@Fox ⚾ 🇦🇺 Why does this fucker not have the degenerate tag?

I hate Capitalism because it is anti christian, materialistic, and attempts to establish money as the most important thing in life

@каждый человек Marx was an Atheist Jew that hated Christianity

He was also a materialist that believed in the material

Modernism is a disease

@agag If that's true I have even more reason to hate the British

Wait a minute, why do you have Catholic and Protestant role? @agag

To answer your question, I hate the British for John Locke and their Anglican rebellion

Not to mention they Jewed the whole world with their colonial empire

Don't become a papist

You're going in the right direction though

But Catholics have bad theology

Why? @agag