tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post5703186993815550656..comments2024-03-22T11:37:52.668-05:00Comments on Byzantine, Texas: Demacopoulos vs. the Russians... againByzantine, TXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845681957622343484noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-56590694096651265382015-11-30T17:54:32.536-06:002015-11-30T17:54:32.536-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Rostislavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11313094521917460919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-3996582909789761952015-11-30T17:54:24.843-06:002015-11-30T17:54:24.843-06:00It is obscene that a liberal, colonialist pushing ...It is obscene that a liberal, colonialist pushing renovationism and the politics of genocide to wipe out democratic protests and stop democratic elections should in any way dare to sully Orthodoxy or America with his brown vision of jackboots and neopagan amorality. It is a pornographic eyesore.Rostislavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11313094521917460919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-90400628400112014722015-11-30T17:45:31.790-06:002015-11-30T17:45:31.790-06:00So you agree with your Ukrainian Uniate banderofas...So you agree with your Ukrainian Uniate banderofascists that the defeat of NAZI Germany was a global tragedy?<br /><br />This is the gist of your Renovationist, colonialist vision for a world forced to sing red, white, and blue uber alles?<br /><br />The lunatic fringe speaks in neo liberal.Rostislavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11313094521917460919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-575285840354539472015-11-30T17:39:44.777-06:002015-11-30T17:39:44.777-06:00It is obscene that a liberal, colonialist pushing ...It is obscene that a liberal, colonialist pushing renovationism and the politics of genocide to wipe out democratic protests and stop democratic elections should in any way dare to sully Orthodoxy or America with his brown vision of jackboots and neopagan amorality. It is a pornographic eyesore.Rostislavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11313094521917460919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-3759909465247574752015-11-30T17:33:42.261-06:002015-11-30T17:33:42.261-06:00We are just telling the world that it is unOrthodo...We are just telling the world that it is unOrthodox and unAmerican to herd 200+ protestors, protesting for democratic elections and the right of self determination, into trade union buildings then to ravage, to beat, to break, to rape them before dousing them and the building with accelerants and then setting them on fire as an act of ukrainian uniate ethnogenesis. Your swastika wearing Ukrainian exponents of red, white and blue uber alles did this for your Emperor Obama in Odessa on 02May2014. People who traffic in the politics of ethnogenesis by Kristallnacht have nothing to say to Orthodoxy, nor to America and Americans nor to V V Putin.Rostislavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11313094521917460919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-261057319261231532015-11-30T17:24:21.870-06:002015-11-30T17:24:21.870-06:00I am not a convert. Strike one. It is American dem...I am not a convert. Strike one. It is American democracy to criticize your government when it stops representing the people and starts representing itself and monied interests. Strike two. These posts are neither about me nor oathes of loyalty to red, white and blue uber alles. Strike three.<br /><br />Seems you don't get Orthodoxy, nor the role of liberty and citizen sovereignty in the system of American democracy, nor the role of Russian Orthodoxy and the reemergence of Orthodoxy to global prominence under Putin. Orthodoxy is stronger today than it has been in a century.<br /><br />Anyone who hates such things is neither American, not Orthodox, not a legitimate political interlocutor.<br /><br />What you seem to want to do is impose fascist loyalty oathes on people who refuse to live in your echo chambers which espouse renovationism, neohellenist spiritual and cultural bankruptcy and banderofascist ethnic cleansing while standing behind American colonialist banners and Uniate Galician SS nachtangel swastikas. Your very brown bathos ensconced in irrelevant western liberal inanity has outlived its shelf life.<br /><br />I am just taking out the garbage in homage to Thomas Jefferson.<br /><br />Your views and those of the likes of nobodies like demacopoulos are already parodies of themselves and are nothing more than the fading harbingers of the apostate renovationist fringe in the West.<br /><br />Crank up your renovationist organ and espouse apostate goa orthodoxism elsewhere. It is apostate and is not Orthodox.<br /><br />Go sing red, white and blue uber alles in your own NY Times ministry of truth echo chamber. But colonialist fascist afterbirth will neither dictate the future for Orthodoxy nor for anywhere else in the world nor even for an America in twilight. We are shouting your Babylon down!<br /><br />Fear your approaching day at Nuremberg. Pass that message on to renovationist - US State Dept. Sergianist dema-(dermo )-copoulos.Rostislavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11313094521917460919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-77245329407841470242015-11-30T08:47:03.720-06:002015-11-30T08:47:03.720-06:00But seriously, to all those converts praising Puti...<br /><br />But seriously, to all those converts praising Putin and Russian politics despising your own motherland, why won't you move there?mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05572603372579540256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-83026816486906216582015-11-29T14:16:35.042-06:002015-11-29T14:16:35.042-06:00Demacopoulos is the typical ecumenist orthodoxist ...Demacopoulos is the typical ecumenist orthodoxist AKA Renovationist heretic AKA Eastern Rite Protestant with closeted Uniate tendencies, advocating displacing Orthodoxy by bullying people into accepting something which is not Orthodox, things like organs and papal pedophile lounge suits in the place of cassocks and a quiet drift to hierofeminism. His sectarian standard of fundamentalism brands all Orthodox local churches for the last five hundred years including the Greek churches his kind hail from as fundamentalist for not accomodating their sectarian flights from Orthodox practice. Seems Orthodoxy is wrong and his band of neohellenist agnostics is right. He would be nailing his stupidities to the doors of Orthodox churches and Russian consulates if he could and he would be singing red, white and blue uber alles. His kind produced the modern nation of Greece. They want that type of trainwreck for Orthodoxy in diaspora. Anybody who lets a renovationist russophobe trying to tear down Orthodoxy and push American colonialist fascist ethnic cleansing in the Ukraine from within speak and think for them isn't interested in being Orthodox. First off, Greek interference into the canonical and historical ecclesiastical and territorial continuum of Rus' is something his ep scolds other Greek churches for when they remotely dare to even hint at it in the context of their beloved Istanbul. His kind need to step back and consider the very real consequences of fomenting rebellion and promulgating schism. They will be brought to account as no one is laughing and no one sober will accept their pretensions and worldview. The Russian church is the largest and most prominent and influential church in Orthodoxy, and it considers this man's religious and political views as sectarian, lunatic fringe nonsense. It is the church of the world's Orthodox superpower. Policy by papal money, US state department sergianism is rejected by the vast majority of Orthodox Christians and local churches. His friends are dwindling. The ep and the goa are irrelevant . I avoid parishes and jurisdictions which produce such people as I prefer being Orthodox and in good standing with the Church. The GOA, aside from its monasteries, tends not to cross that threshold into Orthodoxy. Renovationism and branch theory ecclesiology disguised as two lungs of the Church is not Orthodoxy. His GOA with his sectarian, renovationist model of eastern rite liberal mainstream Protestant denominationalism is demographically dying out and will be functionally dead in the next 30 years along with his Roman and Byzantine Catholic sister churches. Be Orthodox. That means rejecting everything sectarians like this man believe and stand for, including their partisanship for a very real antiChristian America.Rostislavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11313094521917460919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-5860621296042779952015-11-28T19:47:57.859-06:002015-11-28T19:47:57.859-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Rostislavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11313094521917460919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-16498037411005863912015-11-28T19:46:07.419-06:002015-11-28T19:46:07.419-06:00For one, his name is Putin. Two, his RF repeatedly...For one, his name is Putin. Two, his RF repeatedly introduced anti NeoNAZI and anti FASCIST resolutions to the U.N. only to have the US and places like the Ukraine and Georgia vote against them. Why? Because spokespeople of the current Ukrainian junta have made such statements as "the defeat of NAZI Germany was a tragedy for all of mankind," "that Adolph Hitler was a great friend of Ukrainian national aspirations". That "Stepan Bandera's UPA set the foundation for revolutionary resistance as the foundation of a free and independent Ukraine." Stepan Bandera, whose UPA was responsible for such great feats of Ukrainian ethnogenesis as the Volyn Massacre and the atrocities at Babin Yar. He's the Ukrainian fascist regime's founding father. Let's fastforward, Putin did not invade the Ukraine, which is not an Orthodox country: peoples of the Ukraine democratically voted to be separated from a fascist regime and to seek historical unity with RUSSIA, seeking asylum from fascist repression, religious persecution and ethnic cleanzing, rejecting an illegal, colonial organism which had overthrown the democratically elected government of the Ukraine. Their basis for free elections you can read about in the US Declaration of Independence and in the U.N. Charter under the heading of "the right to self determination of all peoples." Those rights apply to Russian Orthodox peoples as well. HOLD A DEMOCRATIC REFERENDUM THROUGHOUT THE UKRAINE AND PUT RUSSIAN AS A FIRST LANGUAGE, FEDERALIZATION OR EVEN ACCESSION TO THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ON THE BALLOT! People like you who use stupid words like putler would never dream of it. We both know why - because not only will the Donbass democratically vote for these measures. Not only will the Crimea flee banderofascist neoconialism, but a tide of regions from the Carpathians to the Black Sea to "Great Ukraine" will vote to leave this fascist hellhole. That's why people like you stand with right sector nachtangel swastika wearing thugs murdering children and pensioners for the mere fact that they want to live elsewhere than in the fascist hell called the Ukraine. You belch putler while standing behind a Galician SS swastika and a banderofascist government engaged in ethnic cleansing. You do so sanctioning a government which murders to prevent democratic elections.- Rostislavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11313094521917460919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-1268474551009679082015-11-20T06:53:50.333-06:002015-11-20T06:53:50.333-06:00delusional? please, name single thing I mentioned ...delusional? please, name single thing I mentioned about Putler that is not truemikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05572603372579540256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-86566230101803634032015-11-20T00:03:43.053-06:002015-11-20T00:03:43.053-06:00Not going to happen, as his little fiefdom of &quo...Not going to happen, as his little fiefdom of "Orthodox Studies" program at Fordham is well funded. Despite some "internal" conflicts, his worldview is likely to be influential for a while. This would of course be true even if he or the Fordham program ended right now. The disease is secularism...Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152024447008244670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-9743560358807259522015-11-19T23:58:21.295-06:002015-11-19T23:58:21.295-06:00"However...this very dubious piece makes me s..."However...this very dubious piece makes me suspicious that Demacopoulos has "bought in" to the modern American cultural geist."<br /><br />Now that this is understood, go back and read the "Orthodox fundamentalism" piece under the new light. What do you see?Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152024447008244670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-33656801740912438412015-11-19T23:55:45.933-06:002015-11-19T23:55:45.933-06:00The answer to #2 is a sort of secular captivity of...The answer to #2 is a sort of secular captivity of the mind and soul. The trick is not to be a dupe of the spirit of the age - clearly Demacopoulos is not very good at this - it's all politics to him. In practice, this mean keeping your children and loved ones from Fordham's "Orthodox Studies" department...Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152024447008244670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-28204932351001834612015-11-19T18:22:43.382-06:002015-11-19T18:22:43.382-06:00Yes Mike once again your bigotry in the form of ra...Yes Mike once again your bigotry in the form of rabid Russophobia is showing. Alex Uramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02430096958728001062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-21046054426392833272015-11-19T11:37:51.603-06:002015-11-19T11:37:51.603-06:00Dear mike,
It seems that you are a bit delusional...Dear mike,<br /><br />It seems that you are a bit delusional.<br /><br />Sigh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-45401727162964659772015-11-19T10:57:19.561-06:002015-11-19T10:57:19.561-06:00so this blog is also run by a fan of that botox-fi...so this blog is also run by a fan of that botox-filled adulterer, political murderer, introducer of sharia law in parts of his countrym and invader on two Orthodox countries?<br /><br />sighmikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05572603372579540256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-3320747439944215152015-11-19T09:27:27.869-06:002015-11-19T09:27:27.869-06:00This man is the epitome of un-patristic, ecumenist...This man is the epitome of un-patristic, ecumenistic, politically correct, nonsense. He does not speak for Holy Orthodoxy and he does not speak with the phronema of the Holy Orthodox faith. <br /><br />It is time for him to give it a rest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-87698569051524114612015-11-19T09:25:23.097-06:002015-11-19T09:25:23.097-06:00First off, let me start by saying that I have litt...First off, let me start by saying that I have little love for Putin. His invasion of the Ukraine was just that and his support for the Yanukovych regime was ill conceived.<br /><br />However, the fact that he is the only leader who wants to fight ISIS instead of arm them is commendable. Do I believe his support of the Orthodox church is because he wants a Christian Russia that can serve as a base to spread the word of Christ? No. I believe he wishes to use religion as a tool to halt the decadence which has caused a demographics collapse in his nation. This, again, is not worthy of condemnation and just shows good sense in contrast to the secular western leaders who are too eager to embrace their own suicide.<br /><br />As for neoconservatives, where are these neoconservatives who support Putin? All the war-mongering neocons I know (including a couple presidential candidates) want war with Russia.Ecclesial Vigilantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17070187926547373245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-28000154668021092872015-11-18T21:15:35.612-06:002015-11-18T21:15:35.612-06:00I am usually fairly supportive of Demacopoulos'...I am usually fairly supportive of Demacopoulos' perspective, because it provides a good counterbalance to some of the more uncritical Orthodox material that has been published in print (especially in the mid-20th century, and recently by small confessional presses) and of course on the web. I nodded approvingly at his piece on Orthodox fundamentalism, knowing exactly the sort of thing (I thought) he was talking about. I met the guy at a conference and appreciated his provocative textual analysis of several Greek fathers.<br /><br />However...this very dubious piece makes me suspicious that Demacopoulos has "bought in" to the modern American cultural geist...the same one that thinks gay marriage is a matter of "personal opinion" and that there should be a strict separation of church and state, among other issues.Evangelical Orthodoxyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10619519505562369996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-9259527441078184662015-11-18T21:05:07.162-06:002015-11-18T21:05:07.162-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Virgil Petrisorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05467744522668766048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-59724956076060181392015-11-18T21:04:51.332-06:002015-11-18T21:04:51.332-06:00This was written a year and a half ago and I didn&...This was written a year and a half ago and I didn't take it seriously then, either.Virgil Petrisorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05467744522668766048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-27101656980059333312015-11-18T20:38:36.768-06:002015-11-18T20:38:36.768-06:00Sigh...Sigh...John (Ad Orientem)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14329907942477160166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-80472682393724711512015-11-18T20:20:25.857-06:002015-11-18T20:20:25.857-06:001. This removes any doubts about what he meant by ...1. This removes any doubts about what he meant by "Orthodox Fundamentalism" in his earlier eruption. He meant "Orthodoxy."<br />2. What is it with Fordham??Palomnikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02543658872512777512noreply@blogger.com