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Andrei Raevsky’s analysis and comments, including: I personally consider these words [using the word Satan] as the single most important part of Putin’s speech!
My comment on Andrei’s main take-away:
I agree. In both biblical language and classical language of the Latin Church, Demonic is a frequent synonym for Satanic. Personally, I use Demonic to avoid or at least minimize the condescension attending use of the word Satanic. But the referent is the same network of diminishment. A Pauline synonym for Satanic is principalities and powers, which he used to avoid or minimize condescension from his Greco-Roman audiences were he to use the Semitic word Satan The literal meaning of Satan is prosecutor, or as we might say, district attorney or US attorney. However, literally speaking, anyone who accuses another acts in a Satanic manner.
The background of this historic speech by Vladimir Vladimirovich, the cause of pain he expresses, is the schism of 1054. Heal that break and AngloZionist arrogance deflates. FWIW, I like Globohomo but prefer Ashkenazy Jewish – Anglican – Jesuit. However, each of these designators points to the same painful phenomenology of causing harm rather than providing help.
The schism of 1054 is a petri dish for The Devil’s instincts. It were right to break that dish itself, pulverize it, put it in a box, tie it with a ribbon, and send it to the deep blue sea.
Whatever ruin shows up in the political or economic realms, showed up first in the religious realm. So it’s upstream, there, where corrections must be made for activities to quiet and smooth out in the political and economic realms. We must find a way to smash the schism of 1054. Perhaps just move around it and meet up on the other side, as with a double envelopment?
The Saker (Andrei Raevsky) wrote this on 21OCT22:
A few updates and a cartoon instead of week-end music
I commented:
“Yes, I know, for Christians Christ was the God-man, the theanthropos, while Islam consider Christ as only a prophet. But at least no Muslim would ever even consider making up genitals for any prophet! Whereas the folks capable of that kind of crap are literally capable of anything.”
Andrei, you live “in the West” and enjoy “its” benefits. You know the saying, probably of Roman origin since we have St. Jerome using it, to wit: “Don’t look a gifted horse in the mouth.” Probably you know: horsemen can tell the health — i.e., the value — of a horse by looking at the condition of its tongue and teeth. If a horse is gifted, its value is already great.
For Christians East and West, Christ is an “is” not a “was.” Christians East and West do not disfigure or otherwise make sacrilege with devotional or liturgical objects. Your complaint is against atheists, not Christians.
Also, there is no such thing as “post-Christianity.” One can imagine Saint Sergius laughing at that ridiculous locution. “Post-Christianity,” indeed!
Andrei responded:
There has been no real Christianity in the West since many many centuries already. Unless, of course, we agree that the term “Christianity” means nothing and anybody claiming to be a Christian just because of that claim.
The (only real) Christianity is the faith “which the Lord gave, was preached by the Apostles, and was preserved by the Fathers. On this was the Church founded; and if anyone departs from this, he neither is nor any longer ought to be called a Christian” (St. Athanasius)
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that “which has been believed everywhere, always and by all” (to quote Saint Vicent of Lerins).
and
“As the Prophets saw, as the Apostles taught, as the Church has received, as the teachers expressed in dogmas, as the whole world has agreed, as the grace has illuminated” (Synodikon of Orthodoxy)
The rest is simply heresy (I mean that not as an insult, but in its original theological meaning which I use as the Fathers would)
Andrei
I responded:
Andrei, thank you for your observations. I apologize for using the word “ridiculous” right near the end of my comment. That was hurtful and should not have happened, although it did.
I have been called worse than heretic, so no difficulties there. Those things slide off. I know what heresy is.
Now this sentence: “There has been no real Christianity in the West since many many centuries already.”
You live “in the West.” I suspect Batiushka, a cleric (?), lives “in the West.” Many of the people whose articles you publish live “in the West” or are based “in the West.” How then can it be that there is “no real Christianity in the West?”
Here is how I see it: Six blind men come upon an elephant, start touching to find out what he is. One says he is a rope. Another says he is a tube. Another says he is a pillar. Another says he is a low ceiling. Another says he is a group of pillars. Another says he is hairy and rough. Each of them is right. God is like that elephant. The religions are like the blind men. Each describes God aright. That’s how I see it.
In parallel with that, the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity describes God as three Persons (masks) but the same Actor.
The power inside each religion is the same. It is love, or as Gorbatow mentions, compassion.
Now, any chance there is interest in nullifying the schism of 1054? Speaking for myself, I think it is time for that to happen, and I use the word “time” in the senses of kairos and chronos both.
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