Monday, December 08, 2014

A note about a certain Orthodox facebook group

I have had enough of the Takfiri Orthodox. If all your religion does for you is give you more and better ways to be an asshole, you're doing it wrong.

I mean, I know I'm an asshole. I don't pretend that my assholishness (except for this precise moment) is in any way virtue or an exercise of religion.

This is not just about a facebook group. There is a certain strand of Orthodoxy in America that needs to be right, and it's willing to fight for what is right, but it seems to confuse being an asshole for being right. And so they do assholish things in the service of fighting some battle that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, but they're justified because they're right. The Fathers were polemical, you know. So they feel free to trot out personal details and drag them through the mud, for instance, in the service of their petty battles for the phronema. cf the little, little man Rod Dreher demonstrated himself to be a few years ago. cf in the Arida matter, some people are bringing up familial details of people nearby - this is not kosher. I realize that, for the LARPodox, this is all Serious Business, and therefore the tactics appropriate for a knife fight in a phone booth apply. For the adults in the room, however, a better path presents itself: repenting and following the gospel of Jesus Christ.

HUMBLE YOURSELF.

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