Message from @The Enlightened Shepherd
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are you immediate friends exceptional
among people like them
i subscribed to orthodox theology, monarchism and worldview at one point in the past, briefly
a lot of gay mystical nazis approach religion from a sensual or pragmatic perspective
but at that time i was leaning more towards greek understanding of orthodoxy, and evne russian to an extent, than to Serbian
Serbian orthodox Christians are mostly fervently anti-Catholic, while I was not as much
Catholicism is to an extent, considered a mortal enemy of Serbs, and Vatican is seen as a main culprit of crimes against Serbs done by Catholics, even more than the people themselves
what's the most major religious festival
Christmass and Easter among Christians
how are both celebrated, briefly
is there any contrast to western europe/america
Christmass by fasting and burning of those great bonfires on the christmass eve
how many people would fast
and by traditional lunches and religious services on christmass day itself
depends
full fasting would often be performed by not especially pious people due to health benefits
if you had to just throw a %age out
On Easter, dying eggs, fasting and "breaking" of eggs is performed
and abstinence from all work on Good Friday
how closely is this adhered to
of general population, notm any perform the entire fast
Good Friday, not working
of pious, many do
nobody does anything on good friday
any length of the fast
would count
towards the figure
both fastings last 40 days
if someone even makes the intention to fast but doesn't do a single day
I'm inclined to ask you to consider that too
but may not be reasonable
10% of adults?
the rule is no meat or dairy, more strict rules which monks adhere to include no oil on certain days, and no meat whatsoever on certain days, including fish
90% of people skipping meat for a day?
mostof people will do the so called "small fast" of fasting for only 1 single day
christmass eve and good firday
if you openly don't do it
what would be the reaction of most people
but that practice is completely unfounded in church practice