Sean wrote:I strongly disagree with you brother. For a neophyte to call the very Pillar and Foundation of Truth incapable of standing up to falsehood is utterly absurd, and personally offensive.
But he is not talking about the Church here - he is talking about Orthodoxy operating as the pillar of an effective Nation State.
Sean wrote:Holy Russia fell as a chastizement from God, because her society was infiltrated by Freemasons and other unsavory influences spawned of the so-called "Renaissance" and "Enlightenment" eras. Peter and Catherine "the Great" both did their share in letting in these anti-Christian elements to undermine Orthodoxy.
In a similar vein, Constantinople fell to the Turks as a chastizement for betraying Orthodoxy at the false Council of Florence.
You are not helping your argument here. In both of these examples Orthodoxy failed to protect the State.
Sean wrote:The entire reason I said "Thank God for entropy!" when commenting on the demise of protestantism, was to make the point that sectarianism is outside the Church and therefore ultimately subject to a graceless corruption and dissolution. The Church on the other hand will endure, for the gates of hell shall not prevail against Her.
He was not saying that the Church (Othodoxy) fails. He was stating that Protestanism works better for operating in THIS world. Do you not agree with that?
Orthodoxy as contained in the writing of the Saints is all about NOT focusing on THIS world.
I don't understand why you have a problem with what he is saying.