#orthodoxy — Public Fediverse posts
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August 6 - The Transfiguration of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
#TransfigurationOfChrist #August6 #Orthodoxy #JohnRoss7 #Mastodon -
I don't publish much on Substack. I reserve it for medium-length philosophical posts like this one on quietism, igtheism, and non-cognitivism.
#philosophy #substack #blog #podcast #positions #orthodoxy #ontologicalgrammar #dinintegration #questions #opportunities
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Heaven alone can produce devout people; Princes produce hypocrites.
[Le Ciel seul peut faire les dévots; les Princes font les hypocrites.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 630 / 1007 “General Maxims of Politics,” No. 10 (1720-1755) [tr. Clark (2012)]More info about this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/79389/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #compliance #devotion #God #government #grace #heaven #hypocrisy #orthodoxy #piety #power #religiousintolerance #religiouspersecution
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CLÉANTE:These are the arguments of all your kind:
Since they can’t see, they think that no one ought;
Whoever does, is tainted with free thought;
Whoever balks at pious affectation
Fails to hold piety in veneration.
Come now, for all your talk, I’m not afraid;
Heaven sees my heart, and I know what I’ve said.
[Voilà de vos pareils le discours ordinaire:
Ils veulent que chacun soit aveugle comme eux;
C’est être libertin que d’avoir de bons yeux;
Et qui n’adore pas de vaines simagrées
N’a ni respect ni foi pour les choses sacrées.
Allez, tous vos discours ne me font point de peur;
Je sais comme je parle, et le ciel voit mon cœur.]
Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 1, sc. 6 (1669) [tr. Frame (1967), 1.5]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/77776/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #tartuffe #accusations #blindness #clearseeing #conscience #devotion #freethought #freethinking #heresy #impiety #orthodoxy #piety #religion
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Young #US men are joining #Russian churches promising 'absurd levels of manliness' [and #ToxicMasculinity!]
by Lucy Ash, May 26, 2025
" 'A lot of people ask me: 'Father Moses, how can I increase my manliness to absurd levels?''
"In a YouTube video, a priest is championing a form of virile, unapologetic masculinity.
"Skinny jeans, crossing your legs, using an iron, shaping your eyebrows, and even eating soup are among the things he derides as too feminine.
"There are other videos of Father Moses McPherson - a powerfully built father of five - weightlifting to the sound of heavy metal.
"He was raised a Protestant and once worked as a roofer, but now serves as a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (#ROCOR) in Georgetown, Texas, an offshoot of the mother church in Moscow.
"ROCOR, a global network with headquarters in New York, has recently been expanding across parts of the US - mainly as a result of people converting from other faiths.
"In the last six months, Father Moses has prepared 75 new followers for baptism in his church of the Mother of God, just north of Austin.
" 'When my wife and I converted 20 years ago we used to call #Orthodoxy the best-kept secret, because people just didn't know what it was,' he says.
'But in the past year-and-a-half our congregation has tripled in size.'"Convert Theodore - who until recently rejected all religion - lifts weights three times a week with Father Moses
During the Sunday liturgy at Father Moses's church, I am struck by the number of men in their twenties and thirties praying and crossing themselves at the back of the nave, and how this religion - with traditions dating back to the 4th century AD - seems to attract young men uneasy with life in modern America."Software engineer Theodore tells me he had a dream job and a wife he adored, but he felt empty inside, as if there was a hole in his heart. He believes society has been "very harsh" on men and is constantly telling them they are in the wrong. He complains that men are criticised for wanting to be the breadwinner and support a stay-at-home wife.
" 'We are told that's a very toxic relationship nowadays,' Theodore says. 'That's not how it should be.'" [smh...]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c30q5l8d4lro
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/p2R0W#ToxicMasculinity #Hypermasculinity #RussianOrthodoxChurch #Putin #MAGA
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#Russian #Faith, the site #Bausman appointed #Gleason to edit in 2018, promotes a reactionary, pro-Kremlin worldview for an English-speaking audience.
Unlike #Russia #Insider, the website focuses on religion, portraying Christians, particularly Russian Orthodox Christians, as in conflict with the secular Western world.
Some prominent far-right figures within the United States have converted to Eastern Orthodox churches in recent years, including but not limited to #Russian #Orthodoxy, despite Orthodox Christians making up a mere 0.5% of the U.S. population, according to a 2014 Pew Research Center report.
As the editor of Russian Faith, Gleason has promoted such far-right groups as the #World #Congress of #Families, whose leaders have been instrumental in crafting some of Russia’s more draconian anti-LGBTQ+ laws. He published work from a range of prominent figures within the American far right, such as Andrew Torba, the founder of the extremist-friendly social media platform #Gab.
Some Russian lawmakers have expressed skepticism regarding Gleason’s proposals, complaining at a February event about the need to deal with domestic issues prior to welcoming immigrants. There is no evidence to support his, or others’, claims that vast segments of the Western European or North American right are planning to relocate to Russia, even among those on the U.S. far right who portray that country as a safe haven for a litany of reactionary political and social beliefs.
Nevertheless, in May, an immigration lawyer who has collaborated with Gleason in his lobbying efforts announced that the Moscow regional administration approved a plan to construct a village for American and Canadian expatriates, beginning in 2024. That same month, Russia leveled travel bans against “those in government and law enforce agencies who are directly involved in the persecution of dissidents” following the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, according to a May 19 press release from Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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#Russian #Faith, the site #Bausman appointed #Gleason to edit in 2018, promotes a reactionary, pro-Kremlin worldview for an English-speaking audience.
Unlike #Russia #Insider, the website focuses on religion, portraying Christians, particularly Russian Orthodox Christians, as in conflict with the secular Western world.
Some prominent far-right figures within the United States have converted to Eastern Orthodox churches in recent years, including but not limited to #Russian #Orthodoxy, despite Orthodox Christians making up a mere 0.5% of the U.S. population, according to a 2014 Pew Research Center report.
As the editor of Russian Faith, Gleason has promoted such far-right groups as the #World #Congress of #Families, whose leaders have been instrumental in crafting some of Russia’s more draconian anti-LGBTQ+ laws. He published work from a range of prominent figures within the American far right, such as Andrew Torba, the founder of the extremist-friendly social media platform #Gab.
Some Russian lawmakers have expressed skepticism regarding Gleason’s proposals, complaining at a February event about the need to deal with domestic issues prior to welcoming immigrants. There is no evidence to support his, or others’, claims that vast segments of the Western European or North American right are planning to relocate to Russia, even among those on the U.S. far right who portray that country as a safe haven for a litany of reactionary political and social beliefs.
Nevertheless, in May, an immigration lawyer who has collaborated with Gleason in his lobbying efforts announced that the Moscow regional administration approved a plan to construct a village for American and Canadian expatriates, beginning in 2024. That same month, Russia leveled travel bans against “those in government and law enforce agencies who are directly involved in the persecution of dissidents” following the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, according to a May 19 press release from Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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#Russian #Faith, the site #Bausman appointed #Gleason to edit in 2018, promotes a reactionary, pro-Kremlin worldview for an English-speaking audience.
Unlike #Russia #Insider, the website focuses on religion, portraying Christians, particularly Russian Orthodox Christians, as in conflict with the secular Western world.
Some prominent far-right figures within the United States have converted to Eastern Orthodox churches in recent years, including but not limited to #Russian #Orthodoxy, despite Orthodox Christians making up a mere 0.5% of the U.S. population, according to a 2014 Pew Research Center report.
As the editor of Russian Faith, Gleason has promoted such far-right groups as the #World #Congress of #Families, whose leaders have been instrumental in crafting some of Russia’s more draconian anti-LGBTQ+ laws. He published work from a range of prominent figures within the American far right, such as Andrew Torba, the founder of the extremist-friendly social media platform #Gab.
Some Russian lawmakers have expressed skepticism regarding Gleason’s proposals, complaining at a February event about the need to deal with domestic issues prior to welcoming immigrants. There is no evidence to support his, or others’, claims that vast segments of the Western European or North American right are planning to relocate to Russia, even among those on the U.S. far right who portray that country as a safe haven for a litany of reactionary political and social beliefs.
Nevertheless, in May, an immigration lawyer who has collaborated with Gleason in his lobbying efforts announced that the Moscow regional administration approved a plan to construct a village for American and Canadian expatriates, beginning in 2024. That same month, Russia leveled travel bans against “those in government and law enforce agencies who are directly involved in the persecution of dissidents” following the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, according to a May 19 press release from Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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#Russian #Faith, the site #Bausman appointed #Gleason to edit in 2018, promotes a reactionary, pro-Kremlin worldview for an English-speaking audience.
Unlike #Russia #Insider, the website focuses on religion, portraying Christians, particularly Russian Orthodox Christians, as in conflict with the secular Western world.
Some prominent far-right figures within the United States have converted to Eastern Orthodox churches in recent years, including but not limited to #Russian #Orthodoxy, despite Orthodox Christians making up a mere 0.5% of the U.S. population, according to a 2014 Pew Research Center report.
As the editor of Russian Faith, Gleason has promoted such far-right groups as the #World #Congress of #Families, whose leaders have been instrumental in crafting some of Russia’s more draconian anti-LGBTQ+ laws. He published work from a range of prominent figures within the American far right, such as Andrew Torba, the founder of the extremist-friendly social media platform #Gab.
Some Russian lawmakers have expressed skepticism regarding Gleason’s proposals, complaining at a February event about the need to deal with domestic issues prior to welcoming immigrants. There is no evidence to support his, or others’, claims that vast segments of the Western European or North American right are planning to relocate to Russia, even among those on the U.S. far right who portray that country as a safe haven for a litany of reactionary political and social beliefs.
Nevertheless, in May, an immigration lawyer who has collaborated with Gleason in his lobbying efforts announced that the Moscow regional administration approved a plan to construct a village for American and Canadian expatriates, beginning in 2024. That same month, Russia leveled travel bans against “those in government and law enforce agencies who are directly involved in the persecution of dissidents” following the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, according to a May 19 press release from Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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#Russian #Faith, the site #Bausman appointed #Gleason to edit in 2018, promotes a reactionary, pro-Kremlin worldview for an English-speaking audience.
Unlike #Russia #Insider, the website focuses on religion, portraying Christians, particularly Russian Orthodox Christians, as in conflict with the secular Western world.
Some prominent far-right figures within the United States have converted to Eastern Orthodox churches in recent years, including but not limited to #Russian #Orthodoxy, despite Orthodox Christians making up a mere 0.5% of the U.S. population, according to a 2014 Pew Research Center report.
As the editor of Russian Faith, Gleason has promoted such far-right groups as the #World #Congress of #Families, whose leaders have been instrumental in crafting some of Russia’s more draconian anti-LGBTQ+ laws. He published work from a range of prominent figures within the American far right, such as Andrew Torba, the founder of the extremist-friendly social media platform #Gab.
Some Russian lawmakers have expressed skepticism regarding Gleason’s proposals, complaining at a February event about the need to deal with domestic issues prior to welcoming immigrants. There is no evidence to support his, or others’, claims that vast segments of the Western European or North American right are planning to relocate to Russia, even among those on the U.S. far right who portray that country as a safe haven for a litany of reactionary political and social beliefs.
Nevertheless, in May, an immigration lawyer who has collaborated with Gleason in his lobbying efforts announced that the Moscow regional administration approved a plan to construct a village for American and Canadian expatriates, beginning in 2024. That same month, Russia leveled travel bans against “those in government and law enforce agencies who are directly involved in the persecution of dissidents” following the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, according to a May 19 press release from Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.