Icxypion wrote:Barbara wrote:DEPROGRAMMED ?!!!
I learned something here ! I had never heard of this approach by some Evangelicals.
Which sects in specific think like that about the Orthodox ?
What do they believe is cult-like about Orthodoxy ? Which jurisdictions are they complaining about - IF they
even know enough to distinguish between various World Orthodox ones ?
That reminds me of the Elizabeth Ann article which is not online anymore.
Any members know the story of what happened there ?
She was the one who had bizarre run-ins with some Platina "priestmonk" or something - I have forgotten.
If no one is interested to pursue this question, then let it go. I was just remembering that story the other day,
that's why I am inquiring.
I don't know of any Evangelical groups that would recommend or think that Orthodox believers need deprogramming.
If there are any, I would think their idea of Orthodoxy as cult like might have something to do with the bad press of Elder Ephraim of Arizona. Many young men and women's parents complain of the total control and shunning that is practised by the Elder in directing the novices to shun all their attachments to their families.
I don't think I have heard the story of Elizabeth Anne of Platina. Maybe you could start a thread and provide some background to begin discussion.
It was primarily the Orthodox Christian Laity (OCL), which appears to be largely masonic, and their GOAL group which has attacked Elder Ephraim of Arizona and the former Archbishop Spyridon of New York. Certain very rich parents were simply hysterical that their sons and daughters wanted to enter monasticism as these hysterical parents wanted their children to marry and give them grandchildren. Quite selfish indeed! How can the church grow if parents forbid their sons and daughters from serving in the church as priests, deacons, and monastics?
On the other hand, Elder Ephraim did a great disservice by leaving ROCOR, stopping his practice of baptizing Catholics and Protestants, and then joining the New Calendarists. He counsels people who are thinking of joining the Old Calendarists that they are going into schism. Yet, he has gone into heresy by leaving the Old Calendarists and joining himself to the Ecumenists and Modernists who follow the New Calendar.
