Please forgive my nastiness
In true charity, you should be patient with Russians, they have gone from an absolute monarch, to a brutal dictatorship, to a “democratically” elected autocrat and open markets. They don’t understand how to operate a Republic.Please forgive my nastiness
Its like I was writing one thing and thinking something else. My personal dislike of Putin and what the Russians have been doing lately created an anger with everything Russian.
A bit emotional.
Maybe a thread on how the Church reflects on the government would be worth asking. There are Orthodox countries as well as Catholic, Lutheran and Anglican countries. Is there a connection to Church and State regarding polity?
Well, the Americans have had 238 years of experience and neither do they, so, I guess, getting it right is not so easy, after all.
I think Americans have understood at some points and but it is being exploited right now which is very concerning to a lot of Americans, myself included. Russians operate with a far more Darwinian mentality, then Americans do. The strong and aggressive survive and succeed and one of the more unfortunate things is that women especially during the Soviet era exploited themselves whether is with their bodies or by their revealing clothing and mentality to survive or to help their families survive. The physically beautiful always had an advantage, which every society can say to some extent but more Christian countries accept the interior of a person equally important (although I will say a lot of men will deal with a physical beauty that is a 10 that has about a 5 or 6 personality). This is starting to go away as Russian women become more educated and have their own wealth and freedom but the physical appearance and let’s say using that as an advantage is still very prevalent much more so than their American counterparts. I went to a wedding and the families of the bride and groom were asked to wear light blue along with the bridal party. The groom was American the bride was Russian, doesn’t the bride’s mother show up in an ill fitted fire engine red low cut dress.
Perhaps they do not want a Republic. But then I don’t hold to the Enlightenment era idea that people will always act rationally (it assumes a Pelagian anthropology), so that wouldn’t bother me if it were the case.
There are enough American women who flaunt their physical appearance. At least it looks very much that way when I glance at the tabloids at the local American supermarket.
)To be really blunt, any such hope was misplaced. We are a democratic confederation of autonomous provinces, within many of which the individual dioceses are also effectively autonomous. Therefore, there exists within Anglicanism no centralised body which can mandate belief, and so there is no one who could bring Anglican belief into line with Orthodox belief. The only way that Anglicans could have become Orthodox is by a spontaneous movement of the Holy Spirit to change how individual Anglicans believe.
I would not bet on that one. As numerous studies in the sociology of religion have pointed out, systems like Anglicanism are changing - and particularly becoming extra-ecclesiastical - but they are not disappearing.
In a way, yes.
Ha Ha; very unfunny!What do you mean by “extra-ecclesiastical”? The Anglican Church is changing into something that is not a church? It is a transformer?
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The newest Anglican bishop?
I respect your stance that as a church you cannot determine what these changes mean, but what do you as an individual Anglican think of them?
The Great Litany at the very beginning of every single Divine Liturgy
Thank you; that is beautiful download prayer
Well, what we have is a demonstration that belief persists even where church does not, but the question is whether coherence of belief will persist (i.e. orthodoxy versus heterodoxy, heresy, etc). If the internet, for example, can provide the sort of community and culture which has traditionally been supplied by church, then coherence can be maintained. If not, then it will be interesting to see how church numbers and styles adapt.