It's just the unfortunate nature of having the west not in communion and countries that were never under any orthodox church. I would love to have the Catholics come back to communion so the jurisdiction chaos in the west could be sorted out.
Pretty much my church used to be a bunch of old Russian ladies there's still the old Russian ladies but now there's a bunch of young families before that it was a bunch of young bachelors I'm the only unmarried person there I think.
You should take care of all the gifts god has given you. To not take care of them is to take them for granted.
Main difference between Cats and Orthos on that matter is that Cats put all their ecclesiological eggs in one basket (El papa) and his “infallible” rulings and “indefectible” character. So while neither church is perfect (as no thing is, from the fall to now, sans Christ himself) it’s a bit of an apples and oranges comparison.
That is question for your priest, but we are to deny ourselves to the best we possibly can.
For what it’s worth, commenting on the pope is not restricted to Catholics (insofar as an A&N thread is concerned, the Catholic thread here on Deep Thoughts should be. I imagine he got banned moreso for spamming or fedposting).
Good recs. Insofar as an intro to Orthodoxy, for those of an American Protestant background I always recommend Fr. Trenham’s stuff. The “best” intro to any subject would have to be personalized to an individual (in terms of things like background, intellect, etc.), but the aforementioned are certainly a good place to start.
I received a temporary thread ban from both threads. The reason for both was something along the lines of "race sperging." If it's Catholics only that's fine but the title of the DT thread explicitly says it's for inquirers only. I didn't fed post at all. You could argue it was spam but I only responded to people replying to me. I apolagize for the ugly yellow bold font message, this guy has been following my account, spaming crude photoshops, and mass stickering every post I make since I posted in a pro-white thread. I didn't realize he'd follow me here too. He's not openly religious, he just hates white nationalists and thinks I'm funny. I'll keep my interactions here as brief as possible to avoid encouraging him.
It really depends. You see, I'm like Catholics not trying to be too mean to the Catholics. They now have to enjoy a more liberal pope than Francis we have. no problem saying we generally don't know. There's a lot of interpretations on what happens after death.
There is technically felitism, but that was never actually declared heresy. It was never gone through an actual ecumenical council. We have no problem with people being open racialists in the orthodox church. I'm pretty openly racialistic, and I've never had a ploppal amend it any church.
Eh I do think the Tollhouses exist.
I'm trying to look into both Protestant and Catholicism, reading through the different threads to figure out where my faith lies. Wanted to learn more from Kiwifarms members, since they are real internet people and not Reddit or 4chan faggots,
There's that plus the Soul After Death (it's on my to read list, which has quickly been piling up).
Almost all of these people are Catholic, but again. Catholics have never been particularly good at argumentation. All of those basically. boils down to trying to kill you, but then again, it's more of a money laundering slash human trafficking cult rather than a religion at this point. By the way, the Catholics knew Pope covered up child molestation. So go back to worshiping your pedophile, enabling anti American scummy Antichrist of a religious leader.
No, there's not really any difference between doctrine. But the churches have different styles of services, like some may be more Russian in character, like the Russian church in America. But if you're looking for an American style Orthodox Church, I would go with the American Orthodox Church.