Orthodox Christianity & Politics - Archbishop Alexander (Golitzin)
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 10. 03. 2022
- In this episode Archbishop Alexander (Golitzin) discusses the dangers and responsibilities that accompany the Orthodox Christian's relationship with politics.
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This is the tenth episode from my interview with His Eminence Archbishop Alexander, formerly Professor of #Patristics at Marquette University, and currently the OCA's Archbishop of Dallas, the South, and the Bulgarian Diocese.
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Thank you for these wonderful interviews! They have been very helpful as I work towards baptism.
Blessings, Thank You for this Gem.
Amen! Your Eminence, thank you for confirming what we have felt from his dark world of politics we are in. Please pray for your spiritual children that they may have the Light of Christ in the Holy Spirit to walk within and rejoice in!
Go figure, the woman who babbles in tongues and slanders the blessed St Ephraim of Arizona gushes over a cleric who called Origen a saint.
Wonderful! Thank you!
Excellent interview. Thank you Dr. MIDDLETOWN.
My bishop. A wise, wise man.
Thank you.
Matthew 25 is such an important lesson from Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Wonderful and timely video.
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I agree that discussing politics stirs up the passions. However, discussing Christianity with non-Christians or with Christians can stir up passions as well. Christ said that he came not to bring peace but a sword. How do you recommend we witness to others about our faith without stirring up our passions?
"Do not dispute over the truth with someone who does not know the truth; but from the person who is eager to know the truth, do not withold words from him." -St Isaac the Syrian
The "passions" spoken of here are the carnal passions; not to be confused with being passionate.
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His Eminence speaks true about what many call the âunipartyâ we have and our duty as Orthodox to work to support policies in accord with Gospel teachings.
Yet during the crisis of the last three years, the folks in the Church who went along unquestioningly with the govât narratives (that have since fallen apart and been exposed as false) were called by our hierarchs good Orthodox, âloving their neighborsâ and âfollowing the science.â Those who brought scientific and spiritual evidence of state & corporate medical corruption tainting the narratives were accused of being influenced by âpolitics.â It still hurts. Itâs still a lie from the pit of hell. Correct me if I missed something, but I have seen no apology or setting the record straight on all that on the part of any of our Synods. Lord, have mercy!
when we have the capacity to do good together and instead come together to make doing good harder, society loses its connective bounds and people lose faith in community
How do you keep Secularism out of the church ?
His Eminence makes too much sense.
His Eminence is not necessarily incorrect, generally speaking. Nevertheless, he is still treading awfully close to one side of partisan politics. And I donât think heâs unaware of that either.
7:20 says it all. ââŠandâŠto agitate.â I reckon itâs easy to see where his loyalties lie. This is exactly why bishops should not be from among the pompous throngs of academia. And the only people I ever see scoffing at that are the usual gaggle of Ameridox heretics, joyless and vindictive feminists, liberaldox ecumenists, and other NGO-backed upstarts fighting to bring the poison of worldly progressivist politics into the Church. âAgitateâ, indeed. Havenât we seen enough âagitationâ? That is quite literally all these automatons do is âagitateâ. Itâs all they know how to do.
Iâm no saint, but somehow, I donât see how political agitation is in any way remotely compatible with noetic prayer and the love of Christ. We are not called to âagitateâ. That is how you end up with journalistic sleaze like Sarah âIâm not a journo, Iâm an anthropologistâ Riccardi-Schwartz or the most recent NPR hit piece against our Church. This is the end result; garbage in, garbage out.
PSA Origen is not a saint
Isn't he an Origenist?
I'm curious what it means to say an "origenist"
@@kadmii someone who believes in the heretical teachings of Origen.
@@paisios2541 is there reason to suspect he believes in such teachings?
@@kadmii yes because he has publicly said that Origen is a Saint and the Ecumenical Council that condemned him is wrong.
He is an origen of many problems
What did Jezus learned you to be part of this corrupt world? Did Jezus start his politic party?
One thing he didn't do was give you the gift of eloquence
"Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government." - Leo Tolstoy
Why are you quoting a man who left the church, hated the church, and wrote his own gospel? A man who said he'd let a man slit a woman's throat rather than shoot because by shooting he'd certainly take a life whereas the murderer might not slit her throat. Tolstoy was no Christian
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I only deal with ideas, do you want to rephrase your question?
But because Tolstoy said something is it necessarily true ?
@@mavisemberson8737 It's a different way of looking at things.
Tolstoy was a heretic. Youâre clearly confused, fella.
This bizarre notion of âChristian pacifismâ is not just anachronistic (there was no concept of politicised pacifism until the late 19th century) it is also a massive heresy. No one, literally no one, before the late 1800s would have even been capable of comprehending something so embarrassingly bourgeois liberal as pacifism. They wouldnât have even been able to wrap their minds around it, it was so antithetical to the general welfare of the people and to the common good.
Two things Our Lord was not: a liberal or a pacifist. Period. End of report. Next case. Please stop imposing post-Enlightenment lunacy onto Holy Scripture. It is deeply offensive as well as blasphemous.