doing his will because we can not atone for our sins ourselves through works or worship.
Correct but we're still supposed to follow His law, do works and worship Him. Lot's of modern Christians forget that part and think just declaring you have faith in Christ (faith is work also btw) is enough.
Dostoyevsky made mistake about one thing - nihilism of the West. If the West was really nihilistic, we had never had all that problems with the West. West is obsessed with their supremacy, and truly and sincere believe things could be only in a way they understand. That is why they constantly try to push their "values" on us. This is not nihilism, but more like religion or cult. West uses nihilism as a weapon to break the will of other nations, but they are in no way nihilists themselves.
Ultimately liberalism leads to nihilism because it's relativistic which leads it to rejecting absolute and objective truth. A system gets more consistent with its basic presuppositions with time and the logical conclusion to classical liberalism of the time of the Enlightenment is playing out in the troons movement and the inability to recognize basic metaphysical categories like biological sex, the rejection of all inherent purpose and meaning to things, of objective morality and of metaphysics itself.
Fr. Seraphim Rose wrote about it in his great book Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age and he too refers to Dostoyevsky there. I'd argue the West today is nihilistic and is destroying itself which is evident by the many crises it suffers but most of all the demographic one and the ubiquitous normalization of degeneracy. This is a sure sign of civilizational collapse as historians like Spengler have observed.
But new age gnosticism, where everything is subjective and interpreted by the individual, isn't. Do as thou wilt, said the devil. There's no bigger slavery than self-worship.
Yes, they try to destroy what we have in common and that's why they attack Orthodoxy and history. As with Ukraine, there's a huge effort to westernize all of the Eastern bloc. Pro-EU libtards here hate on the Church and tradition because our main cathedral is named after St. Alexander Nevsky. We commemorate tzar Alexander II at divine liturgy because the Russian-Turkish war of 1875 brought our independence which I'm sure you know all about. As I already said, we practically share the same language (Russian is almost identical to Old Bulgarian). I compose music and at conservatory I was asked why did I write choral music in Old Bulgarian/Church Slavonic (as is customary for Orthodox music) and not in Latin. As usual, they infiltrate academia and the media along with the political sphere. There's also a sudden uptake in Protestants sects (mostly evangelicals) that are promoted among the young via music acts and influencers as a tool for soft power.
Dostoyevsky wrote about that time in his notebooks. He also wrote about the imminent danger from the degenerate nihilistic west and the need for slavic people to unite against the satanic powers. Sadly, he was way ahead of his time and things only got worse. There is hope still and this war is crucial.
Thanks for the advice. I'll definitely wait for the warmer weather.
That's what false dialectics do to the brain. Both Islam and Judaism are bad, antichristian and want to destroy you, you idiot. Islam is based on Judaism and I literally wrote that in the comments here. Who do you think Muslims worship? It's a satanic cult for degenerate retarded rock lickers that is promoted in the west by powerful interests as an antithesis to talmudism. Well, it's not.
H.G. Wells was a Royal Society member and a key fabian socialist who wrote fiction as propaganda. His political works include The New World Order and The Open Conspiracy. Yes, he knew what the plan was and he was instrumental at developing it.
Yes, that's a good point. But it's hard to trace back when a tribe or a union of tribes becomes a meaningful entity and 'a people' and that's why we usually refer to an official founding dynasty. It's like tracing back the origins of a language - the more you go back, the less defined and characteristic it becomes.
St. Andrew preached the gospel in the Black Sea region in Thrace around modern day Varna and Sozopol.
Пожалуйста, I love Russian culture too and I plan to visit soon. I hope you get your territories back and live in peace. We have similar problems with Macedonia, which is Bulgarian territory. Russia is at the forefront of fighting the globalist goblins and we should be united against them.
Lol if it's not a thing someone should bank on it.
Yes, there are many ancient sites here - both from Ancient Greek and Roman times and even older Thracian pagan ritual grounds. But Bulgaria was officially founded in 681, so I misspoke when I said it's half a century older than Kievska Rus which came 2c. later.
Yeah that's unfortunate. But the majority of people here are against it. We're still getting euro cucked and are about to get on the euro shekels.
Nothing to be proud of.
I disagree. It's like saying Russia had nothing to be proud of during the Bolshevik regime. It still had its history and tradition and most of all - Holy Orthodoxy.
I said I'm not Russian. My country is half a century older than Russia and people here don't love jews very much and there aren't that many. Why u mad?
I see now I've exposed myself in the image. We gave the Cyrillic alphabet and the slavonic language to the Russians.
No, I'm from Eastern Europe though.
Btw, the Quran is based on the Talmud and it's full of arbitrary legalism. Everyone who tells you Islam is closer to Christianity than to Judaism is lying to you. They reject the divine nature of Christ and as Paul says, everyone who does that is of the spirit of the antichrist.
Absolutely. We should always remember Psalm 14 and that this is spiritual affliction that leads to intellectual deficiency and not vice versa.
Yes, I know all about how the RCC was subverted by the CIA and the gay jesuit jews.
Islam is used as a geopolitical tool to push immigration and destroy western civilization and Christianity. They don't care about making it gay soon. The British Empire and Islamism go way back just as much as they do with zionism. But yes, in the future Islam will be integrated in the fake and gay one world religion which will be state sanctioned.
The ship and crew was sacrificed in order to justify US war against Egypt and taking the Middle East. Democracy!
"If you do not agree with me no matter how insane I look, you will straight-up die and we will make sure you get something worse than death" is a Jewish idea. Or at least the Jews turned it into an industry that will last for the rest of human history.
That's the most retarded strawman of Christianity I've ever heard. Do you even care what Christianity actually teaches or do you want to run with what's in your head?
A Gentile king can run such an idea for at most 20 years because they have no ability to effectively convince others that they are righteous. A Canaanite/Jewish religion, on the other hand will coat it as righteousness and enforce it as a truth that lasts forever.
20 years my ass. The secular freemasonic (freemasonry is talmudism for gentiles btw) NWO is running for over a century now.
You equivocate between the Bible and the Talmud - talk about strawmen. You have no knowledge of the origins of modern day ideas.
the push for Communism and DEI is a reverse psyop to vilify non-believers (not even atheists, just non-believers)
Do you think lefties are Christian? The people pushing DEI and communism are openly antichristian and mostly secular liberals (I say mostly because some of them larp as pagans, satanists and deists). What planet do you come from?
Secularism is also not a jewish inevention, it was in Greece and China.
The Greek worshiped their gods. They had temple cults and made sacrifices. The Olympic games were a religious festival which is why it was resurrected by the masonic neo-pagans in the 20th c.
China was religious too. They also had rituals, sacrifices and oracles but unlike the Greek their gods were impersonal. The Emperor was god personified and he was treated accordingly.
The definition of Secularism is that you can choose not to believe in the Agenda of the day (usually an uncriticizable God) and not get Cancelled or end up dead.
That definition exists only in your head. What if secularism itself is the agenda of the day? If I go to work and denounce secularism I'll most likely get cancelled, be called a bigot and a flerfer.
You try so hard to paint yourself and other atheists as victims in todays society as if you don't represent the mainstream ideology. You're like a black lesbian DEI queen complaining about how bad the patriarchy is treating her.
Btw, zionism is a secular socialist movement so you should be cool with it.
This doesn't make sense. The Vatican predates the CIA; how would the CIA run it?
It coopted it after WWII. It doesn't matter which came first.
Read the books or watch some videos on the subject and it will become clear. Jay Dyer has good analysis on this. There are mounts of evidence and it's not just a crazy theory.
Yep, it's a pdf skittles cult. And it's very obviously ran by the CIA and the technocratic global government, especially since the 60's and Vatican 2. There is a two volume research on the topic by D. Wemhoff who is a trad Cath himself. P. Williams's book Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia is good too.
There is no excuse to be Catholic in the 21c. when all this information is out there and your Pope openly promotes the NWO agenda.
Dude, are you aware 'the Medieval era' which spanned Europe, Asia and Africa over a period of 1000 years is not a single cohesive thing you can point to?
Do you even know that during most of the so called Dark ages (talmudic propaganda name) jews were banished from many kingdoms unlike your masonic 'secular' modern times you love so much where jews basically run the whole world through usury and blackmail? Don't you wonder why jews sought to destroy all Christian monarchies starting with the French Revolution and ending with the Bolshevik one as outlined in their Protocols?
What took and still takes place after the talmudic revolutions of the past 250 years is 100 times worse than anything during the Christian period before that. Christianity kept jews at bay and 'secularism' and republicanism is a jewish invention - you got it all mixed up. Go read Fire in the Minds of Men by J. Bilington which is an academic level text about the origin of the revolutionary ideas and of secular government.
What are you on about? How did you insert America into all this, when the US is built on Enlightenment anti-monarchical revolutionary and secular ideas that go against the traditional Church teachings and Church history? The true continuation of the Byzantine two-headed eagle symphonia is the Russian Empire. We're talking about dynastical inheritance too. The Western monarchies never managed to balance Church and state roles and fell into power dialectics even before the schism because Rome became increasingly secular and behaved the Pope conceived himself as a world emperor (hence the three-tiered crown). The freemasonic republic experiment in America is yet one step further than the degenerate western monarchies and the heretical RCC. It's worse than pagan Rome in fact and is closer to Babylon and Sodom and Gomorrah.