Two more days of Orthodox lent: vegan. Antonio Spadaro does wonders with the basic ingredients. No butter!
Category: Orthodoxy
Finally, someone who (along with @DrMichaelBonner ) understood Skin in the Game. It makes humans superior to gods. 2) Orthodoxy reposes on the notion that a) G-d had to become man to suffer and have skin in the game and, more centrally for Orthodoxy, b) Man can become G-d via a merger called theosis BECAUSE G-d had skin in the game: Αὐτὸς γὰρ ἐνηνθρώπησεν, ἵνα ἡμεῖς θεοποιηθῶμεν Orthodoxy is an extension of GrecoRomanAnatolian creeds
What will your Greek name be? Why aren’t you Michael Anastasius Bonner (just as I add my Greek middle name everywhere) Mine is Nikolaos Philologos.
Alas people have done more harm while trying to “do good” and trying to “improve” the world than by trying to pursue their selfish aims while leaving others alone. Silver rule>> Messianism #vianegativa (Orthodox theology) #naiveinterventionism #virtuesignaling
A Twelver Shiite friend attending service at Saint Nicholas’ Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Beirut, pointed out at the 12 apostles and calmly said: “you too”.
The real difference in politics isn’t the “right” vs “left” gradation but rather “Greek” vs “Roman”. + Greek = puts theory above practice + Roman= puts practice above theory Be Roman. Now. BTW, Byzantines were diehard Roman. Greek was just a language.
Vegan kebbe made with herbs for Orthodox holy week.
Holy week in Greek Orthodox Phoenicia: vegan food, arak, and rose wine.
We are told in the US that if we Orthodox need to visit a church, to pick the Episcopelian-Church of Engl as they are Catholics without the filioque papality.
To me Protestantism resembles Islam in its obsessive focus on monotheistic purity and its distate for pomp, symbols, and ornaments. Catholics are more like brothers enemies.
