If nothing else this vid shows why people do not believe in God,look at some you tubers Religious people are the first ones to advocate violence,think there perspective is the only one,abd promote hate,well safe to say I doubt i need to add more except for one example and believe me i wish i was making this up..Preachers in churches by me say that Satan placed fossils to confuse man and draw people away from God.For me it is quite easy to see why people turn their backs on God if there is one.
As Vladyka says well, with the exceptions of die-hard behaviourists and those that would wish the behaviorial theorists had gotten it right, evidence from what is known as the 'fetal brain differentiation and CNS imprinting in the hypothalamus' theory shows almost 20 years of promise and progress, leaving behaviourists and their friends marginalized. I pray that their ilk will also become marginalized by us in the Church. All in due time.
@ioannismiami As Skinner might say, "It is elementary, my dear Watson. Behaviourism is obsolete." I would not trust the professional training or practice of anyone who still thought that behaviourism had any validity. Such a person would be a quack at best, and fake with no credentials more likely.
Dear Vladika, I was responding to the rather evil things said by someone in the comments of your video, not to your stance, which I know to be a compassionate one.
@akrifasouth I realise that. I wish the two of you many years of health, happiness and the joy of sincere love. To love and be loved is what makes life bearable. Love is what makes hate foolish.
I don't agree with your reasoning behind your faith and I don't think that I ever will however, every time I see one of your videos you make me hope (just a little) for a change in religion instead of an annihilation of it. If all religious adherents were as you are, I don't think I'd hate religion or have cause to fight against it. Thank you for making your videos.
Thank you so much for that timely message. I am an Orthodox Christian, but I also identify myself as mostly a libertarian. (Judging from some of your other videos, I would guess that we probably differ on many political discussions, but that's a discussion for another time.) As such, I believe that people have the free will to live however they wish.
In any case, could you please clear up what the Scriptures and canons say about homosexuality? Are they wrong, then?
@GeonusKaikun As you say, that is a question for a later discussion. What one must remember is that homosexuality is never mentioned in the Scripture; sexual relations between two heterosexual men is.
@allsaintsmonastery Your Grace, I am willing to be corrected, but it seems there is something you are not being quite honest about: Leviticus 18:22 "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination." Just as this verse does not use the word "homosexual," neither does it imply that the command against lying with a man is only intended for "heterosexual" men. It simply forbids lying with a male.
@GeonusKaikun Actually, I am not going to argue about interpretations, but adding the world "homosexual" where it does not exist in Scripture is dishonest and immoral. It is a fraudulent action, and one motivated by ideology. According to the last paragraphs of the New Testament, adding a word to Scripture means that your name is blotted out from the Book of Life.
@TrashHeapHedonist In fact, we have had to confront that situation. We have some fanatical monastics who deny a married couple communion until they have produced a child, on the grounds that they are having "illicit sex." I does not seem to occur to them that there are medical reasons why a child has not been conceived. And childless marriages are "illicit marriages." Rather neurotic attitude,but it does exist.
@LiberAnarchy When people are made to suffer because of their suffering, it is impossible to remain silent about it. Inner human suffering is worse than physical suffering. Why should we add pain to pain? Especially when it is done through wilful ignorance and ideology.
@MrJtsunami I will track it down. I have made several visits to the gender identity clinic at the Vancouver General Hospital and University of B.C. medical centre. I interviewed both doctors, patients and social workers at the centres. I will look at Dr. Bown's video. Thanks for mentioning it.
@hadadezer1 You need to rethink: homosexuality is most certainly something that people are born with, and over which they have no choice. Heterosexual men can, and do, have same-sex intercourse, and not just under stress circumstances. They do have a clear choice in the matter. Don't try to tell people what "God thinks", you don't know, and cannot know.
@hadadezer1 No i am not, I am only wishing that you were an honest person instead of someone who mentions Medical Science in such a gross and hypocritical manner. You are they type who, if the state did not stop you, would burn witches at stake, and refuse to allow people medical treatment because you would have to believe (as the Bible says) that illness are demonic possession rather than illnesses.
@hadadezer1 In other words, we should deny truth for the sake of someone's misunderstanding of Scripture? Does the sun rise and set? Can you make a day longer by making the sun stand still? Does the sun actually "know" things, is it actually true that the earth does not move? Of course not. The sun does not move relative to the earth: it neither rises nor set, it knows nothing, and you would have to make the earth stand still, not the sun.
@hadadezer1 The word homosexual absolutely does not occur in that verse, so you are a liar, and you need to go and read the last paragraph of the Book Of Revelation, since by adding to the words of the Book, your name has been strcken out of the Lamb's Book of Life. Woe to you. (the term and concept of homosexual did not exist before the late 1800s).
At the risk of sounding like Tony Robbins, it is only those who live in fear and doubt that would treat these people or any others with malice and violence. HE, who can cause entropy gravity and evolution by his will in motion , showed us his true nature, that of compassion ultimate love.
My husband and I are gay, and have been together faithfully for 9 years, which is more than I can say about my relatives marriages. I do not feel as though I am "sexually immoral". I feel blessed, and secure in the knowledge that Christ is my redeemer and will not forsake us.
@akrifasouth My issue in this video is not even about Gay people The subject is transgendered people, and I made the video because of a couple of ideologically caused suicides of transgendered people, and the astonishing ignorance of the comments by "Christians" (sic) that followed them.
@hadadezer1 First: transgendered people are NOT homosexual, quite the opposite. Second, if you paid attention instead of letting your wild eyed fanaticism sweep your mind away, you would notice that we no where mentioned homosexual relations. Your own perverted mind allowed you to insert that where it does not exist.
@hadadezer1 The Scripture does not speak about Transgendered people anywhere. Neither do the Canons or the Holy Fathers. Find me one place in the Scripture where Transgendered people are mentioned. In fact, even the word "homosexual" does not exist in Scripture, or in the Canons, etc. However, we are talking about transgendered people, not homosexual people. So you would persecute and destroy people because you believe that all of medical science is a fraud?
Your Eminence, Thank you for the instructive video on gender. I like the science you talked about gender. Gives more clearity of the physical body, that is brain determining the gender. Thank you.
@TrashHeapHedonist . Dogma arises only from the Incarnation of God and its ramifications. I did not "certify" homosexuality, but the science is quite compelling that it is not a matter of choice, but something one is born with. In any case, transgendered people are NOT homosexual, far from it. It is true that heterosexual men can have sex with other males, but that does not make them homosexual
In regard to your response on the church's position on homosexuality. I don't really understand how the church can take that position. My argument was always that they are taking that from the old testament, seemingly as a justification for preexisting bigotry. If it was important, why didn't Jesus mention it? That last question enrages fundies.
@sonnygll Homosexuality is never mentioned anywhere in the Scripture. The term did not even exist until the 1800s, nor did the concept. However, in Semitic societies (Arabs, Hebrews, and others, as in many Eastern cultures) the rape of boys and young men was common, and it was done by ordinary heterosexual men, not by homosexual men. That is the issue in Sodom and Gommorah, and with the Levite in Ephraim.
@allsaintsmonastery Agreed. Social identity behaviours that include nominal identities like "gay" or "GLBT" and cluster by demographics around same-gender oriented and transgendered persons are anachronisms, as Vladyka says, when it comes to discussing literature and artifacts that predate the late 1880's, at the earliest. Of course, other social identities existed before medicalization took place when a taxonomy like "homosexual" was coined in Germany just prior to the 20th century.
That's a good argument. You could interpret it that way in light of the historical facts. The Christians here in America sure wouldn't like that. But as you say, they would rather dance with unicorns.
@sonnygll Re-interpreting, in many cases, re-writing the Scripture into the context of contemporary language, taking it out of the culture in which it was written and the context in which it was written is a treacherous thing to do, and it is patently dishonest. However, that is the general practice which too many practise.
@allsaintsmonastery I am just curious about the prohibition against same-sex intercourse. Does it primarily have to do with the fact that it doesn't lead to conception? If that is the case, is it wrong for a married couple to engage in sex if they are unable to have children?
@TrashHeapHedonist Part of it must have to do with violence and the violation of others too. Notice that in the case of the Levite in Ephraim, the slave-girl was literally raped to death. The same would have happened to the Levite (but women were disposable, men were not). Note that the men accepted the woman as a substitute, by which we know that they were not "Gay." The same was true of the daughters of Lot. OK for them to be raped to death, but Gay men would not have been interested.
@TrashHeapHedonist Rape of men was a psychological/physical weapon in warfare also. But above all else, same-sex intercourse was identified with the pagan temple in Canaan (and elsewhere). It was heterosexual men who made use of the male slaves who were forced to be temple prostitutes. That is the main point. The identity with Pagan worship.
@TrashHeapHedonist By the way, pay closer attention: we are talking about transgender, not homosexuality. Transgendered people are most certainly not homosexual.
@TrashHeapHedonist Who says that my view of same-sex relations is different from the Orthodox Church's? Homosexuality is a personhood, not a sex act. We are not talking about sexual intercourse, but personhood.
@allsaintsmonastery So the Orthodox Church's stance on homosexuality is akin to some forms of Judaism? In other words, it is okay to be internally homosexual as long as you don't engage in homosexual intercourse?
@TrashHeapHedonist Yes that is the Orthodox position. Since homosexuality is something you are born with, can't be a sin since it's out of your control. But, if a homosexual were to engage in homosexual intercourse, that would be considered a misuse of that person's energies or sinful. Orthodox see sin as a misuse of our energies. What we Orthodox Christians try and focus on mostly is to love God with all our hearts and to also love one another as we love ourself. It's really that simple.
@TrashHeapHedonist it OK to be??? If you were born homosexual, there is nothing that you can to do change it. How you handle it is something you must choose. Some forms of Judaism are reconciled to the practice as well, but I believe teach monogamy. There are many Gay people in the Israeli Army, and they function quite well.
@davidperi They are, and they are the ones who transmitted the best of teachings to their children. It was the Babas who kept the Church going during the Communist Era, who did not back down, who were at the liturgy and who had the babies baptised during those dark years.
It isn't the true face of Islam, it is the true face of religion allowed free reign.
Hindus are still sacrificing children in India to make crops grow, Christians burning children as witches in Africa and Muslims are (in some places) carrying out their well publicised atrocities.
It isn't the fault of any one of these religions, it is a shame on all of them. Absolute morality in the hands of people leads inevitably to these evils.
@gabiotta Of course this is true. When a faith collapses into being a religion, and then the religion collapses into an idiological system, every manner of evil is possible. This is why I fully support secular governments that can regulate the activities of religions. Can you imagine what would happen if there was no cap on the Tea Party Fundamentalists in the U.S.?
I shudder to think what U.S. fundamentalism would grow into, but we can see it's evil seeping through the pores of that society. Enough children have died there for want of medical care because their snake handler parents thought God was a doctor on call to dispel the myth that government can control the actions of zealots.
It is time to leave the very idea that any absolute truth has ever been revealed to the clothed monkeys of this planet behind.
@gabiotta Without a secular government in the U.S., Fundamentalists would be much worse than they are, and there would be more Christian religious terrorism. The "Jesus Camps" are really just Christian Jihad camps.
@zarkoff45 In my book ON THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF SIN, I did discuss this in more detail. Eventually, I am going to give a lecture on the matter with a blackboard at hand to give a clearer picture. We did not get into epigenetics, etc. and we should. We only just mentioned premature stop codons, and did not touch the fMRIs of brain wiring.
Wonder if the modern processed carb and soy laiden diet with the motherhas increased this genetic deviation? Non-the-less, Love thy brother is the Lord's commandment, transgengered, homosexual, or big, dirty Greek (me)
@40chrisk Without doubt the proliferation of pseudo-oestrogens (in all plastics and many other petro-chemical compounds) has had a profound effect. I see no reason not to attribute the increase in the number of homosexual births at least in part to the pseudooestrogens in our environment.
Thank you so much Vladyka for making this video. I have shared the link to this with a trans-gendered friend of mine in hopes that he will come to see some of Christ's mercy and love through your words. I pray that his suffering my be eased, even if by just a little, by the great knowledge and compassion the Holy Spirit has bestowed upon you. You are in my prayers dearest Vladyka. Christ is in our midst!
If nothing else this vid shows why people do not believe in God,look at some you tubers Religious people are the first ones to advocate violence,think there perspective is the only one,abd promote hate,well safe to say I doubt i need to add more except for one example and believe me i wish i was making this up..Preachers in churches by me say that Satan placed fossils to confuse man and draw people away from God.For me it is quite easy to see why people turn their backs on God if there is one.
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As Vladyka says well, with the exceptions of die-hard behaviourists and those that would wish the behaviorial theorists had gotten it right, evidence from what is known as the 'fetal brain differentiation and CNS imprinting in the hypothalamus' theory shows almost 20 years of promise and progress, leaving behaviourists and their friends marginalized. I pray that their ilk will also become marginalized by us in the Church. All in due time.
ioannismiami 1 month ago
@ioannismiami As Skinner might say, "It is elementary, my dear Watson. Behaviourism is obsolete." I would not trust the professional training or practice of anyone who still thought that behaviourism had any validity. Such a person would be a quack at best, and fake with no credentials more likely.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
Dear Vladika, I was responding to the rather evil things said by someone in the comments of your video, not to your stance, which I know to be a compassionate one.
akrifasouth 1 month ago
@akrifasouth I realise that. I wish the two of you many years of health, happiness and the joy of sincere love. To love and be loved is what makes life bearable. Love is what makes hate foolish.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
I don't agree with your reasoning behind your faith and I don't think that I ever will however, every time I see one of your videos you make me hope (just a little) for a change in religion instead of an annihilation of it. If all religious adherents were as you are, I don't think I'd hate religion or have cause to fight against it. Thank you for making your videos.
themanofearth 1 month ago
Your Eminence,
Thank you so much for that timely message. I am an Orthodox Christian, but I also identify myself as mostly a libertarian. (Judging from some of your other videos, I would guess that we probably differ on many political discussions, but that's a discussion for another time.) As such, I believe that people have the free will to live however they wish.
In any case, could you please clear up what the Scriptures and canons say about homosexuality? Are they wrong, then?
GeonusKaikun 1 month ago
@GeonusKaikun As you say, that is a question for a later discussion. What one must remember is that homosexuality is never mentioned in the Scripture; sexual relations between two heterosexual men is.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@allsaintsmonastery Your Grace, I am willing to be corrected, but it seems there is something you are not being quite honest about: Leviticus 18:22 "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination." Just as this verse does not use the word "homosexual," neither does it imply that the command against lying with a man is only intended for "heterosexual" men. It simply forbids lying with a male.
7Rothgar 1 month ago
@GeonusKaikun Actually, I am not going to argue about interpretations, but adding the world "homosexual" where it does not exist in Scripture is dishonest and immoral. It is a fraudulent action, and one motivated by ideology. According to the last paragraphs of the New Testament, adding a word to Scripture means that your name is blotted out from the Book of Life.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
So it is indeed sinful if a married heterosexual couple engage in sex if they are unable to have children?
TrashHeapHedonist 1 month ago
@TrashHeapHedonist In fact, we have had to confront that situation. We have some fanatical monastics who deny a married couple communion until they have produced a child, on the grounds that they are having "illicit sex." I does not seem to occur to them that there are medical reasons why a child has not been conceived. And childless marriages are "illicit marriages." Rather neurotic attitude,but it does exist.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
You, sir, are the most enlightened clergy member I've ever encountered when it comes to gender. Thank you from a trans man. :)
LiberAnarchy 1 month ago
@LiberAnarchy When people are made to suffer because of their suffering, it is impossible to remain silent about it. Inner human suffering is worse than physical suffering. Why should we add pain to pain? Especially when it is done through wilful ignorance and ideology.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@MrJtsunami I will track it down. I have made several visits to the gender identity clinic at the Vancouver General Hospital and University of B.C. medical centre. I interviewed both doctors, patients and social workers at the centres. I will look at Dr. Bown's video. Thanks for mentioning it.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@hadadezer1 You need to rethink: homosexuality is most certainly something that people are born with, and over which they have no choice. Heterosexual men can, and do, have same-sex intercourse, and not just under stress circumstances. They do have a clear choice in the matter. Don't try to tell people what "God thinks", you don't know, and cannot know.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@hadadezer1 No i am not, I am only wishing that you were an honest person instead of someone who mentions Medical Science in such a gross and hypocritical manner. You are they type who, if the state did not stop you, would burn witches at stake, and refuse to allow people medical treatment because you would have to believe (as the Bible says) that illness are demonic possession rather than illnesses.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@hadadezer1 In other words, we should deny truth for the sake of someone's misunderstanding of Scripture? Does the sun rise and set? Can you make a day longer by making the sun stand still? Does the sun actually "know" things, is it actually true that the earth does not move? Of course not. The sun does not move relative to the earth: it neither rises nor set, it knows nothing, and you would have to make the earth stand still, not the sun.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@hadadezer1 The word homosexual absolutely does not occur in that verse, so you are a liar, and you need to go and read the last paragraph of the Book Of Revelation, since by adding to the words of the Book, your name has been strcken out of the Lamb's Book of Life. Woe to you. (the term and concept of homosexual did not exist before the late 1800s).
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
At the risk of sounding like Tony Robbins, it is only those who live in fear and doubt that would treat these people or any others with malice and violence. HE, who can cause entropy gravity and evolution by his will in motion , showed us his true nature, that of compassion ultimate love.
40chrisk 1 month ago
@40chrisk Moral outrage is a form of confession; we hate most in others what we fear most in ourselves.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
My husband and I are gay, and have been together faithfully for 9 years, which is more than I can say about my relatives marriages. I do not feel as though I am "sexually immoral". I feel blessed, and secure in the knowledge that Christ is my redeemer and will not forsake us.
akrifasouth 1 month ago
@akrifasouth My issue in this video is not even about Gay people The subject is transgendered people, and I made the video because of a couple of ideologically caused suicides of transgendered people, and the astonishing ignorance of the comments by "Christians" (sic) that followed them.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@hadadezer1 First: transgendered people are NOT homosexual, quite the opposite. Second, if you paid attention instead of letting your wild eyed fanaticism sweep your mind away, you would notice that we no where mentioned homosexual relations. Your own perverted mind allowed you to insert that where it does not exist.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@hadadezer1 The Scripture does not speak about Transgendered people anywhere. Neither do the Canons or the Holy Fathers. Find me one place in the Scripture where Transgendered people are mentioned. In fact, even the word "homosexual" does not exist in Scripture, or in the Canons, etc. However, we are talking about transgendered people, not homosexual people. So you would persecute and destroy people because you believe that all of medical science is a fraud?
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
Your Eminence, Thank you for the instructive video on gender. I like the science you talked about gender. Gives more clearity of the physical body, that is brain determining the gender. Thank you.
february17able 1 month ago
I agree. However, isn't the church's position on homosexuality at odds with yours? Wouldn't that, in the church's eyes, make you a heretic?
TrashHeapHedonist 1 month ago
@TrashHeapHedonist . Dogma arises only from the Incarnation of God and its ramifications. I did not "certify" homosexuality, but the science is quite compelling that it is not a matter of choice, but something one is born with. In any case, transgendered people are NOT homosexual, far from it. It is true that heterosexual men can have sex with other males, but that does not make them homosexual
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@allsaintsmonastery
In regard to your response on the church's position on homosexuality. I don't really understand how the church can take that position. My argument was always that they are taking that from the old testament, seemingly as a justification for preexisting bigotry. If it was important, why didn't Jesus mention it? That last question enrages fundies.
sonnygll 1 month ago
@sonnygll Homosexuality is never mentioned anywhere in the Scripture. The term did not even exist until the 1800s, nor did the concept. However, in Semitic societies (Arabs, Hebrews, and others, as in many Eastern cultures) the rape of boys and young men was common, and it was done by ordinary heterosexual men, not by homosexual men. That is the issue in Sodom and Gommorah, and with the Levite in Ephraim.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@allsaintsmonastery Agreed. Social identity behaviours that include nominal identities like "gay" or "GLBT" and cluster by demographics around same-gender oriented and transgendered persons are anachronisms, as Vladyka says, when it comes to discussing literature and artifacts that predate the late 1880's, at the earliest. Of course, other social identities existed before medicalization took place when a taxonomy like "homosexual" was coined in Germany just prior to the 20th century.
ioannismiami 1 month ago
@allsaintsmonastery
That's a good argument. You could interpret it that way in light of the historical facts. The Christians here in America sure wouldn't like that. But as you say, they would rather dance with unicorns.
sonnygll 1 month ago
@sonnygll Re-interpreting, in many cases, re-writing the Scripture into the context of contemporary language, taking it out of the culture in which it was written and the context in which it was written is a treacherous thing to do, and it is patently dishonest. However, that is the general practice which too many practise.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@allsaintsmonastery I am just curious about the prohibition against same-sex intercourse. Does it primarily have to do with the fact that it doesn't lead to conception? If that is the case, is it wrong for a married couple to engage in sex if they are unable to have children?
TrashHeapHedonist 1 month ago
@TrashHeapHedonist Part of it must have to do with violence and the violation of others too. Notice that in the case of the Levite in Ephraim, the slave-girl was literally raped to death. The same would have happened to the Levite (but women were disposable, men were not). Note that the men accepted the woman as a substitute, by which we know that they were not "Gay." The same was true of the daughters of Lot. OK for them to be raped to death, but Gay men would not have been interested.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@TrashHeapHedonist Rape of men was a psychological/physical weapon in warfare also. But above all else, same-sex intercourse was identified with the pagan temple in Canaan (and elsewhere). It was heterosexual men who made use of the male slaves who were forced to be temple prostitutes. That is the main point. The identity with Pagan worship.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@TrashHeapHedonist By the way, pay closer attention: we are talking about transgender, not homosexuality. Transgendered people are most certainly not homosexual.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@TrashHeapHedonist Who says that my view of same-sex relations is different from the Orthodox Church's? Homosexuality is a personhood, not a sex act. We are not talking about sexual intercourse, but personhood.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@allsaintsmonastery So the Orthodox Church's stance on homosexuality is akin to some forms of Judaism? In other words, it is okay to be internally homosexual as long as you don't engage in homosexual intercourse?
TrashHeapHedonist 1 month ago
@TrashHeapHedonist Yes that is the Orthodox position. Since homosexuality is something you are born with, can't be a sin since it's out of your control. But, if a homosexual were to engage in homosexual intercourse, that would be considered a misuse of that person's energies or sinful. Orthodox see sin as a misuse of our energies. What we Orthodox Christians try and focus on mostly is to love God with all our hearts and to also love one another as we love ourself. It's really that simple.
magnus56j 1 month ago
@TrashHeapHedonist it OK to be??? If you were born homosexual, there is nothing that you can to do change it. How you handle it is something you must choose. Some forms of Judaism are reconciled to the practice as well, but I believe teach monogamy. There are many Gay people in the Israeli Army, and they function quite well.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
My couple of trips to Russia in the 90s, I came to the conclusion that these grandmothers, the godly ones, are the real back bones of the country.
davidperi 1 month ago
@davidperi They are, and they are the ones who transmitted the best of teachings to their children. It was the Babas who kept the Church going during the Communist Era, who did not back down, who were at the liturgy and who had the babies baptised during those dark years.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
It isn't the true face of Islam, it is the true face of religion allowed free reign.
Hindus are still sacrificing children in India to make crops grow, Christians burning children as witches in Africa and Muslims are (in some places) carrying out their well publicised atrocities.
It isn't the fault of any one of these religions, it is a shame on all of them. Absolute morality in the hands of people leads inevitably to these evils.
The same thing goes for genital mutilation.
gabiotta 1 month ago
@gabiotta Of course this is true. When a faith collapses into being a religion, and then the religion collapses into an idiological system, every manner of evil is possible. This is why I fully support secular governments that can regulate the activities of religions. Can you imagine what would happen if there was no cap on the Tea Party Fundamentalists in the U.S.?
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
@allsaintsmonastery
I shudder to think what U.S. fundamentalism would grow into, but we can see it's evil seeping through the pores of that society. Enough children have died there for want of medical care because their snake handler parents thought God was a doctor on call to dispel the myth that government can control the actions of zealots.
It is time to leave the very idea that any absolute truth has ever been revealed to the clothed monkeys of this planet behind.
gabiotta 1 month ago
@gabiotta Without a secular government in the U.S., Fundamentalists would be much worse than they are, and there would be more Christian religious terrorism. The "Jesus Camps" are really just Christian Jihad camps.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
You argued the point about sexual development and transgendered people better than most people I've seen try to do it.
zarkoff45 1 month ago
@zarkoff45 In my book ON THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF SIN, I did discuss this in more detail. Eventually, I am going to give a lecture on the matter with a blackboard at hand to give a clearer picture. We did not get into epigenetics, etc. and we should. We only just mentioned premature stop codons, and did not touch the fMRIs of brain wiring.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
Oh no, what happened to the poor unicorns? How come they didn't make it to the ark?
LoneMonk1 1 month ago
@LoneMonk1 To busy dancing with fundamentalists.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
I'm surprised the Orthodox Church doesn't consider you to be a heretic.
TrashHeapHedonist 1 month ago
@TrashHeapHedonist What is true cannot be a heresy.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
Wonder if the modern processed carb and soy laiden diet with the motherhas increased this genetic deviation? Non-the-less, Love thy brother is the Lord's commandment, transgengered, homosexual, or big, dirty Greek (me)
40chrisk 1 month ago
@40chrisk Without doubt the proliferation of pseudo-oestrogens (in all plastics and many other petro-chemical compounds) has had a profound effect. I see no reason not to attribute the increase in the number of homosexual births at least in part to the pseudooestrogens in our environment.
allsaintsmonastery 1 month ago
Bravo !
beechgrovejoe 1 month ago
this video is so cool. thank you for making these videos.
JohnTheHutDweller 1 month ago
Thank you so much Vladyka for making this video. I have shared the link to this with a trans-gendered friend of mine in hopes that he will come to see some of Christ's mercy and love through your words. I pray that his suffering my be eased, even if by just a little, by the great knowledge and compassion the Holy Spirit has bestowed upon you. You are in my prayers dearest Vladyka. Christ is in our midst!
AuroralEnigmatus 1 month ago
awesome
JohnTheHutDweller 1 month ago