Evolution is fake and ghey
If you were looking for Orthodox writers in general, It'd be remiss of me not to plug Fr. Seraphim Rose. He has a handful of writings that I think you'd find interesting.
"Unseen Warfare" is the place to start.
St. Theophan is a joy to read. Highly recommend 🙏
As to the fatalism of those who believe that man must be a slave to the “spirit of the age,” it is disproved by the experience of every Christian worthy of the name, for the Christian life is nothing if it is not a struggle against the spirit of every age for the sake of eternity.
Man’s freedom has been given him to choose between the true God and himself, between the true path to deification whereon the self is humbled and crucified in this life to be resurrected and exalted in God and eternity, and the false path of self-deification which promises exaltation in this life but ends in the Abyss. These are the only two choices, ultimately, open to the freedom of man; and upon them have been founded the two Kingdoms, the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Man, which may be discriminated only by the eye of faith in this life, but which shall be separated in the future life as Heaven and Hell. It is clear to which of them modern civilization belongs…The old commandment of “Thou shalt,” says [Nietzsche’s] Zarathustra, has become outmoded; the new commandment is “I will.”
In the Christian life, the old self with its constant “I will” must be done away with and a new self, centered in Christ and His will, be born.
Christian compromise in thought and word and negligence in deed have opened the way to the triumph of the forces of the absurd, of Satan, of Antichrist. The present age of absurdity is the just reward of Christians who have failed to be Christians. It is futile, in fact it is precisely absurd, to speak of reforming society, of changing the path of history, of emerging into an age beyond absurdity, if we have not Christ in our hearts; and if we do have Christ in our hearts, nothing else matters.
☦️Fr Seraphim Rose
Hypocrisy is the mother of lying, and often its occasion. For some define hypocrisy as none other than meditation on falsehood, and an inventor of falsehood which has a reprehensible oath intertwined with it.
☦️St. John Climacus
"This is only the beginning of sorrows. A fierce war will come, and after the war there must be thirty years of peace, after which the Antichrist will be crowned. But the war has already begun.
We are already in a climate and biotronic war. Don’t you see how they can now cause earthquakes, floods, droughts, and fires? But the Good God will protect His chosen ones.
Their intention is to incite conflict between nations, so that—God forbid—a world war may erupt, aiming to destroy the majority of mankind. What is interesting is that those who take part in this machinery of destruction never stop to ask themselves: how long will they actually live, if they destroy everything around them just to live as a single “chosen” nation? How far will they go, and how long do they think they will survive? For the pit you dig for another, you will fall into yourself."
Elder Justin Parvu
(From the Volumes “Father Justin Speaks to Us”)
Another banger from Buck and Fr. Peck:
Came in yesterday and it is captivating right out the gate. So far I am through the intro and the first chapter and though I disagree with the church of Rome, Jones' take on Protestantism in the first 40 or so pages is tough to hear and will make this a difficult read for many in the West.
The Logos Podcast: Open Panel: Are Gnosticism and Ancient Heresies on the Rise? with Fr. Dcn. Dr. Ananias
Starting from: 00:00:00
Episode webpage: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/open-panel-are-gnosticism-and-ancient-heresies-on-the-rise-with-fr-dcn-dr-ananias--67178939
This goes HARD
Be sure to check out the rest of their work (if you're referencing the Harmony channel).
Are you inquiring into the Orthodox Church? Or just curious?
Religion informs culture which informs politics. This is why ideologies fail as they are very much downstream from Truth. This is just as true for communism as it is for capitalism.
Only the foolish think that suffering is evil. A sensible man knows that suffering is not evil but only the manifestation of evil and healing from evil. Only sin in a man is a real evil, and there is no evil outside sin. Everything else that men generally call evil is not, but is a bitter medicine to heal from evil. The sicker the man, the more bitter the medicine that the doctor prescribes for him. At times, even, it seems to a sick man that the medicine is worse and more bitter than the sickness itself! And so it seems at times to the sinner: the suffering is harder and more bitter than the sin committed. But this is only an illusion – a very strong self-delusion. There is no suffering in the world that could be anywhere near as hard and destructive as sin is. All the suffering borne by men and nations is none other than the abundant healing that eternal Mercy offers to men and nations to save them from eternal death. Every sin, however small, would inevitably bring death if Mercy were not to allow suffering in order to sober men up from the inebriation of sin; for the healing that comes through suffering is brought about by the gracefilled power of the Holy and Life-giving Spirit.
☦️ St. Nikolai Velimirovich
Another one:
Materialism denies human agency — accountability, responsibility, the pursuit of virtue, and the like — because it has no comprehension of the soul. If man is just a biological machine with feelings, then any dysfunction he experiences has to be the result of environmental factors, and accountability is measured only in his conformance to the larger status quo ("take this pill!"), what ever that status-quo happens to be. In this way conformance becomes the measure of a responsible individual.
The necessary revolt against this soul and body crushing bulldozer however isn't individualism but the recovery of authentic personsonhood. Man recovers his humanity when he discovers his own soul — a process that begins his recovery and healing. When he enters into authentic communion with God and brother. He becomes a real person which is much greater and deeper and more real than the mere assertion of his individuality. It renders him less vulnerable to ideology as well ("My body, myself!").
So the discovery and healing of the soul then is the means by which a man realizes and actualizes his personal particularity — the "who" of who he really is — and begins to flourish in the ways that God created him to be. But this is not realized in assertions of individualism alone because individualism alone still keeps a man isolated, and isolation and estrangement is the major soul crushing dynamic of this materialist age in which we live. It is the source and cause of so much interior suffering that men experience.
This is what "Your bother is your life means." This is the true revolt. This is why the commandment is that we must love God and neighbor. Everything else is death because everything else leads to soul crushing isolation.
"And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:30-31)
A blessed Lord's day ☦️🙏
"Love for God and love for neighbor are inseparable; one cannot exist without the other."
☦️St. John of San Francisco 
Ephesians 5:14 — Therefore He says:
“Awake, you who sleep,
Arise from the dead,
And Christ will give you light.”
Mel coming home? ☦️ 
#DTTW
#RighteousPropaganda
#Christianity 
Good Morning,
The ultimate safety is that which is not of this earth. There is nothing of or from this earth which will produce safety. It is only in the service and faith of the Lord that there is any safety. It is submitting to Him that we find safety.
Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the covenant where the children of Abraham will be a blessing onto this world.
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Genesis 22
Gen 22:17-18 KJV “That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
18. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.”
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"In October 2016, deep-field images from the Hubble Space Telescope suggested that there are about 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe, or about 10 times more galaxies than previously suggested, according to the journal Nature. In an email with Live Science, lead author Christopher Conselice, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, said there were about 100 million stars in the average galaxy. "
* Space dot com
.webp
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Psalm 4
Psa 4 KJV “Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
2. O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
3. But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
4. Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
5. Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.
6. There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
7. Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
8. I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.”
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Matthew 28
Mat 28:19-20 KJV Ҧ Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen...”
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GM brother 🙏
