Here’s the difference between let’s say the Catholic Church and the Orthodox church. The EO church is decentralized and doesn’t believe it’s bishops are infallible. If a bishop says some stupid stuff they’re just another human in error. It happens, people make mistakes. It’s expected and anticipated. They believe when the whole church makes a council together and everyone agrees that’s divinely inspired. Not when one bishop is bribed.

Currently for example the metropolitan of Constantinople and the patriarch of Russia are kinda sketch. Constantinople is 100% working with the cia, and Russia is doing stuff for Putin.

I go to an American EO parish that is in the Russian patriarchate. Nobody took the vaccine, nobody masks, and it’s actually why I chose this exact church. Some churches have people who vaccinated and messed up, some leaders messed up. But the cool thing is; the decentralized nature prevents any one erroneous choice from burning down the whole organization.

We anticipate corruption, we anticipate human greed, human manipulation, human shortcomings. It sucks that hilarion is saying this but he’s a very old man who is capable of mistakes. Doesn’t change the churches doctrine at all.

The good guide in the church is what a multitde of Saints say, not what church leaders say. Leaders get manipulated but real holy people rarely try and seize all power and impose their will.

The most famous modern Saint is Paisios the Athonite. One of his famous predictions is of a global killer vaccination program. Here’s what a real church leader says, not some random corrupt bishop:

now a vaccine has been developed to combat a new disease, which will be obligatory and those taking it will be marked… Later on, anyone who is not marked with the number 666 will not be able to either buy or sell, to get a loan, to get a job, and so forth. My thinking tells me that this is the system through which the Antichrist has chosen to take over the whole world, and people who are not part of this system won’t be able to find work and so on — whether black or white or red; in other words, everyone he will take over through an economic system that controls the global economy, and only those who have accepted the seal, the mark of the number 666, will be able to participate in business dealings

He predicted Covid vaccines in the 1990s.