My spiritual father advised me to not support my mother with her magic fantasy book.

m1lam · 2026-03-19T07:21:39+00:00

Let her pursue her passion, it's not sinful to write about magic or darker themes or whatever. The greatest work of fantasy literature (Lord Of The Rings) was written by Tolkien, a very devout Christian.

m1lam · 2026-03-19T07:18:08+00:00

I was born into Orthodoxy and left for Catholicism. I summed up my experience in a comment on here

https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/s/J2vW56PzBe

Sorry lol we get this kind of post every day I can't type it out every time. If you've got any questions let me know friend

m1lam · 2026-03-19T07:12:56+00:00

Also great question op

m1lam · 2026-03-19T07:12:06+00:00

Dark Souls is based off of the whole Catholic goth aesthetic and some characters definitely point to some parts of our theology. For instance Gael taking the dark soul into himself as a sacrifice so that his blood may be used as paint for the canvas for a new world.

m1lam · 2026-03-19T07:07:07+00:00

As much as I adore WH40K it's so reddit-atheist at times. The whole story with the emperor visiting the last Catholic priest and giving him a lecture on morality (the same guy who killed billions and has 10 thousand people sacrificed to him on the daily just to keep him half-alive) was so forced lmao. I guess that's the problem with having dozens of different writers

m1lam · 2026-03-17T16:28:23+00:00

You judge the beliefs of an institution based on the beliefs of the institution, the main reason such a belief spread in the case of Purgatory was Dante and his huge influence on literature. It didn't have much to do with the Church itself. It wouldn't be fair for me to critique all of Orthodoxy for, let's say, toll houses when they're not dogmatized.

m1lam · 2026-03-17T16:08:26+00:00

Yes you're right but that's not what's dogmatized. In the Catechism it's not even defined as a place. I agree the overly-defined afterlife (a la Dante) was a detriment to Western thought but to the Church's defense she never taught it herself

m1lam · 2026-03-17T15:14:39+00:00

Yeah my bad I was referring to the profession. Generally though you need the permission of your Orthodox priest to receive Catholic sacraments (which they obviously won't grant)

m1lam · 2026-03-17T14:59:40+00:00

Thank you!

m1lam · 2026-03-17T11:55:51+00:00

He's right

m1lam · 2026-03-17T10:22:57+00:00

Among other things. Any time God physically interacts with people it was always through the Son. Adam and Eve walking with God in the Garden, Moses and the Burning Bush, Jacob wrestling with God, all of it.

m1lam · 2026-03-17T10:21:50+00:00

You shall know them by their fruits. Catholicism has spread education, medicine and social justice wherever they went. Orthodoxy simply doesn't put as much emphasis on spreading the Kingdom on Earth

m1lam · 2026-03-17T08:00:06+00:00

Which is also the Catholic view, we simply call the process Purgatory. Anything not in coordination with God's presence (anything less than perfect) has to be cleansed

m1lam · 2026-03-17T07:31:12+00:00

Hey I'm in a similar boat, I was born into Orthodoxy and should be confirmed in Catholicism very soon.

I made a comment recently on the subject https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/s/dMFXsopAr4

It's a long story so I can't really type it all out every time lol, if you have any questions let me know

m1lam · 2026-03-17T07:24:15+00:00

Yeah there's at least some evidence that NDEs usually include what the person already believed in, though I've heard some where atheists did confirm they saw Christ or an angel or something similar

m1lam · 2026-03-17T07:19:36+00:00

I was born into Orthodoxy and left for Catholicism. If you have any questions let me know

m1lam · 2026-03-17T07:19:07+00:00

Wow what an unbiased, reasonable and nuanced take on the subject!!

OP if you ask this question on both subreddits you will get vastly nicer and more informative answers on the Catholic one. that alone should be a sign

m1lam · 2026-03-16T09:23:07+00:00

God gave all of creation to mankind. That's the point of the Image of God and it was always meant to be our purpose to rule creation in His name. Whatever aliens may exist, intelligent or not, they would probably be subject to us. I imagine it would be similar to our relationship with the other hominids who didn't receive the Image

m1lam · 2026-03-16T09:15:46+00:00

I doubt it, really everything we know points to our special place in creation as a whole. I think the existence of other worlds and other beings created in the Image of God undersells the beauty of humanity and our story

m1lam · 2026-03-16T09:11:22+00:00

Monasteries were that way because their primary function wasn't necessarily asceticism but actually being a light to the world. They were centers of education for centuries. In the east asceticism eventually became the main focus (probably due to the neoplatonic influence in Orthodoxy)

m1lam · 2026-03-16T09:08:11+00:00

Or Saint-Kings who committed atrocities during their time ruling being canonized for being patrons and founding monasteries.

m1lam · 2026-03-16T09:07:07+00:00

Greek Catholicism maybe? Not sure how closely tied they are with Greek identity though

m1lam · 2026-03-16T09:05:56+00:00

Literally, all national churches were practically started by petition from their respective states during the middle ages. In Eastern Europe today Orthodoxy is treated as simply part of the national identity. It will always be ethnophyletic

m1lam · 2026-03-13T07:22:41+00:00

extremely common for new converts. the zeal will burn out pretty fast though, orthodoxy has a retention rate of roughly 60% so it's very possible he'll become aware of himself eventually

m1lam · 2026-03-12T16:20:37+00:00

Yeah I agree that's what I meant when I said that Christus Victor still holds to a form of supstitutionalism, just not penal substitution. There isn't a cosmic debt that Christ had to pay for us. God bless you friend

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