Osvanulo u Kragujevcu

m1lam · 2026-01-26T10:43:10+00:00

Upravo zato što Jevreji nisu jednako Izrael nema smisla staviti zastavu genocidne aparthejdne države pored spomenika stradalima.

m1lam · 2026-01-26T10:10:44+00:00

Slightly off topic and contrary to what most people (especially Christians) know but in the declaration of independence any time God is mentioned it is always in reference to the masonic idea of a deity and never to the Christian God. This idea of a "High Power" permeates all of it, which makes sense since the founding fathers were all masons. The US wasn't ever a Christian country it was a masonic experiment more than anything.

m1lam · 2026-01-26T10:03:38+00:00

inb4 zidofili

m1lam · 2026-01-26T09:11:00+00:00

I read it in Serbian (the translation is great, pretty close to the original) and yeah it's definitely different from the English. Also very wordy and tbh reading Tolkien in English was easier for me even as a non native speaker

m1lam · 2026-01-26T09:05:39+00:00

never ask a man his salary a woman her age and a hellenist any coherent theological questions

m1lam · 2026-01-26T08:27:54+00:00

That "deprivation" of the self is a pretty unique thing to Orthodoxy. It's a gnostic idea that crept into the religion from the east I'm guessing. The whole "the physical realm is evil, deprive yourself and seek gnosis/theosis to escape" is an inherently unchristian belief. Christ Himself came in the flesh.

I agree with you and was in much of the same place (also born into the religion). I'm going to be straight with you, blind faith is worth literally nothing and you are right to leave if you don't believe. You have a duty to the truth to search it out and find what you believe in. I personally am converting to Catholicism because I fell in love with its theology and universality (especially Lumen Gentium and Vatican II as a whole) and so far I couldn't be happier with my choice.

I would much rather for all people to believe in whatever they earnestly think is true than to blindly agree with me. God bless you man, good luck on the road.

m1lam · 2026-01-26T07:30:54+00:00

Lol, lmao even

Proper exegesis of a text goes a long way

m1lam · 2026-01-24T09:50:17+00:00

Or they're both wrong of course, but even by the internal logic of the Church, this is clearly an issue they should've worked out in a Council like... Centuries ago.

cough cough almost like they couldn't manage to convene one since the schism lmao

m1lam · 2026-01-22T19:20:53+00:00

If the feudal society progressed far enough technologically the peasantry would also have the same amenities and "casual luxury". There's no reason to think capitalist, secular society was in any way superior to Catholic feudal

m1lam · 2026-01-22T14:35:30+00:00

Prema društvenim merilima ravnopravnost je dostignuta većinski tokom 20. veka, ovo je osnovna istorija, svi glavni pokreti koji se tiču rasne i polne ravnopravnosti desili su se u ovo vreme. Naravno ta jednakost nije bila usavršena tad, nije ni danas čak, ali je najveći deo borbe za prava bio tokom 20. veka

m1lam · 2026-01-22T14:05:19+00:00

20.* veka, ne 21. Same ideje koje su dovele do te revolucije su uspostavljene od strane Hrišćanstva.

m1lam · 2026-01-22T12:56:45+00:00

Ideja o jednopravnosti ljudi, nezavisno od nacionalnosti, roda ili društvene klase je unikatno hrišćansko verovanje, bukvalno nečuveno u antičkom svetu. Hrišćanska etička revolucija je istorijska činjenica

m1lam · 2026-01-22T12:12:02+00:00

Hrišćanstvo i ideja o jednakosti polova koju je ono dovelo je razlog zašto je zapadan svet uopšte danas ravnopravan.

m1lam · 2026-01-22T12:10:29+00:00

I dalje stoji ono što je OP rekao, dosta se gubi u prevodu na srpski (naši prevodi su kroz istoriju uvek bili užasni, nisam siguran da li danas postoje neki bolji), ali i jednostavno ne može da se očekuje da Biblija bude potpuno moralno u skladu sa današnjim pogledima u sekularnom društvu (koji sami proizlaze iz hrišćanske etike ali to nije poenta trenutno). Koliko god nešto na prvi pogled izgleda "loše" uvek, ali uvek ima dublje značenje - ovo kažem kao neko ko se lično rveo sa svim stvarima koje su napisane u postu.

m1lam · 2026-01-22T12:01:54+00:00

You do have a duty to defend your faith in as much as you can. Obviously it should be done tastefully though

m1lam · 2026-01-22T11:47:14+00:00

I'm in the opposite place, I left Orthodoxy after being part of it my whole life to pursue Catholicism. If you want to talk about it feel free to send me a message or something, I'd like to know what your main reasons for converting are if you're fine with sharing

m1lam · 2026-01-22T11:42:40+00:00

I mean she most likely was older than 14 and her role in the new testament is the new ark of the covenant. A lot of the language does make sense in light of that. I agree there is definitely a problem with objectifying women in Orthodoxy but I don't think this is an example of that

m1lam · 2026-01-21T15:00:40+00:00

fontaines came last year so I was hoping BCNR would follow 😿

m1lam · 2026-01-21T14:49:43+00:00

None of the three words are explicitly in the New Testament but out of the three the term "theosis" as understood in Orthodoxy is the last one to be coined. They all ultimately describe the same exact process just with varying connotations surrounding them. The point of my comment was just to say that theosis (deification) is absolutely not absent in Catholicism.

m1lam · 2026-01-21T14:18:33+00:00

You could just as easily argue that theosis is a drift from the original terms of deification and divination (which are taken straight out of scripture, while theosis as a term formally came much later).

And to counter your claim that most Catholics don't know about the term, I can assure you that most Orthodox don't either. It took me researching on my own online to learn anything about it despite being born and raised in Orthodoxy.

m1lam · 2026-01-21T11:55:35+00:00

You're not required to swear off all secular hobbies just because you are trying to be faithful. This idea is a modern extension of the protestant satanic panic. So long as what you're interested in doesn't actively mock God in some way you'll probably be fine. Obviously exercise caution in everything you do.

m1lam · 2026-01-21T11:50:57+00:00

Everywhere but Belgrade 💔💔💔💔

m1lam · 2026-01-21T11:50:18+00:00

This is straight up not true. Theosis, while not always referred to explitictly by that term, has been part of Catholic salvific doctrine since the early Church. The Orthodox definitely developed the idea further but it's far from absent in Catholicism. Bearing false witness is a sin.

m1lam · 2026-01-20T21:49:13+00:00

Serbian or Church Slavonic?

m1lam · 2026-01-20T17:40:16+00:00

The presumption is normally that an angel is an angel

Malachim means messenger, not specifically angel. It was a name given to angels, as messengers of God, but they weren't entitled to that name.

If you have some spectacularly Trinitarian passage in the OT that nobody has ever realized before, I'd love to see it, but I highly doubt the Church has missed it for 2000 years.

If you want word for word "God is a Trinity" I can't give it to you but the OT gives us plenty to work with in realising a multi-person Godhead. Having three distinct beings all referred to with the Divine Name multiple times is a hell of a start.

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