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by _cizinec_
Tue 14 September 2004 5:23 pm
Forum: Praxis
Topic: Harming Creation II: Exploiting, Killing, Consuming Animal
Replies: 44
Views: 14525

I think more disturbing than the consumption of animal flesh is the consumption of perfectly good malted barley (and adjuncts) in substandard beers (I will leave them unnamed).

by _cizinec_
Wed 11 August 2004 3:54 pm
Forum: Liturgics and Mysteries
Topic: What is your favorite type of Orthodox Christian chanting?
Replies: 49
Views: 37932

Vesna Peno & Centrul de Studii Bizantine Iaşi

This is the interesting article I was discussing. It is by Vesna Peno and is published by Centrul de Studii Bizantine Iaşi.

You have to register to see the article. I didn't see a copyright, but I'd rather send the link and have you register than break any rules.

It is the second article down and ...
by _cizinec_
Wed 11 August 2004 10:20 am
Forum: Liturgics and Mysteries
Topic: What is your favorite type of Orthodox Christian chanting?
Replies: 49
Views: 37932

Ioannes72,

I'm a little confused. I've heard Byzantine chant, although I'm really not that familiar with it. While I can tell that Serbian chant is heavily influenced by Byzantine chant, as one would expect, it certainly doesn't seem identical.

I have an article that basically concludes that ...
by _cizinec_
Wed 4 August 2004 1:29 pm
Forum: Theology and Tradition
Topic: Am I a Heretic?
Replies: 26
Views: 10685

I'm more confused about the position of modern Judaism. It seems to me that there is a distinct line where Jews of the True Faith became Christian and those who worshipped traditionalism remained Jews. I know this is a terrible oversimplification.

Do we and modern Jews worship the same God?

I'm ...
by _cizinec_
Tue 3 August 2004 5:15 pm
Forum: Theology and Tradition
Topic: Am I a Heretic?
Replies: 26
Views: 10685

I usually don't waste my time, but I sometimes argue to understand an issue better myself. I'm not really intending to convince anyone else.

Which brings me to my next issue:

Do modern Jews worship the True God?

by _cizinec_
Tue 3 August 2004 4:10 pm
Forum: Prayer Life
Topic: Birth of a Second Son
Replies: 4
Views: 2310

Birth of a Second Son

I haven't posted in a while. I would like to thank all of you who knew and prayed for my wife and our new son. It was a very difficult pregnancy.

Our son was born the day after the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. After a long and painful struggle with my wife and mother-in-law, who wanted to name ...
by _cizinec_
Tue 3 August 2004 3:53 pm
Forum: Theology and Tradition
Topic: Am I a Heretic?
Replies: 26
Views: 10685

Am I a Heretic?

In a discussion on another board, I am being told that I hold heretical beliefs because I do not believe that Muslims pray to the True God.

He says he has quotes from the likes of St. Justin Martyr, St. Irenaeus, St. Clement of Alexandria, and St. Basil the Great to prove that my belief is ...