That preserving rituals is important for maintaining community.
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1·19 hours agoTo stay consistent with the running joke of the meme, heresies would be forks that don’t work and I wouldn’t recommend for anyone to use.
Like WSL being prosperity gospel.
Orthodox
I’m sure the Catholics would disagree with me, and that’s fine with me. But personally I would say the Orthodox are the oldest continuous movement of Christianity. Not only do they historically beat out the Romans by a few decades, but also they have maintained a far more consistent liturgy over the millennia. The Catholics have had a a good handful of major liturgical changes that I would say constitute a few major breaks in historical consistency.
That’s not a criticism from me. I’m Anglican.
The writers are terrible, but “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” and “Total Money Makeover” are both really good books for middle class folks.
I read them before I learned how terrible their authors are.
6·20 hours agoGive me a plushy and I’ll volunteer for the control group
If only Christians centuries ago agreed on a basic statement that could define what is orthodox Christianity…
The guy is really just not right about that. There was a lot of cultural mixing going around back in the early iron age, but Judaism borrowed much more from the Egyptians, Babylonians, and the Greeks than they did the Persians. And it also has a lot of very unique features as well.
Yes there was also cultural exchange with the Persians that found it’s way into Judaism, but it’s just not correct to say it’s a copy.
39·1 day agoDear billionaires with space rocket companies,
Would you mind take a quick break from corroding Western democracy to fix the Hubble?
20·2 days agoIt’s not important that you believe in ghosts. It’s only important that they believe in themselves.
We’ll have to wait until AluminumOS is actually released to place it on the chart.
My guess is that it becomes First Baptist in Dallas.
The Orthodox communion is having a bit of a revival right now. Which happens on occasion for them, because they are really misunderstood in the West.
For example, in the 2000s they had a brief boom period where “new-agey” type people were attracted to the mystical aspects of the church. I think that boom was short lived because those people really just wanted spiritual consumerism, and, as far as Christian denominations go, Orthodoxy is hard work. It’s not for beginners. If you aren’t born into it then it’s really hard to break in. (By my understanding is that if you do the hard work the community and spiritual benefits are really meaningful.)
Unfortunately, today their current boom (if it’s still going on, this information is a few years old now) is coming from Proud boys-type people. They were interested it it because it’s seen as adequately homophobic and sexist for them. My guess is that their interest was ultimately short lived as well because they aren’t going to be interested in doing the work any more than the Live-Laugh-Love crowd was.