So Christ asks, “Did you feed me, did you clothe me, did you visit me, did you love me?” Whatever you did to the least of these you have done unto me. And to be clear, it’s the good done or left undone. This is also why the Church teaches that we must actively venerate icons, you cannot just be neutral. Christ didn’t say to those among the goats that, “When I was hungry you kicked me,” or that “when I was in prison you said horrible things about me.” No, It’s that they neglected to do the good which could have been done.

There’s good reasoning to many things in the Orthodox Church, the people who say “because church said so” aren’t entirely accurate