is there any validity whatsoever to this shit as a "religion?" my scam radar is blowing up off the charts on this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877131&forum_id=2)#49960827)

1.) Ex-evangelicals that hate how "Gay" the church is and have decided to inhale incense to cope.

2.) Nazis that want to be "Christian" but "based" and have become the Eastern European version of weeaboos as a result.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877131&forum_id=2)#49960832)

there's also a third category though, i think, of guys who are basically just straight up total losers and who think that they can worm their way into a "church hierarchy" and get some semblance of artificial status and 4.5/10 mid-30s pussy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877131&forum_id=2)#49960836)

https://www.oca.org/orthodoxy/prayers/symbol-of-faith

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877131&forum_id=2)#49960982)

I know some orthobros, clannish af, it is very much a "keep the old country" alive thing and they are 100% serious.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877131&forum_id=2)#49960944)

If you're genuinely curious about the real history here — the Great Schism, the differences between Orthodox/Catholic/Protestant theology, or how Christology actually developed — I'm happy to get into that seriously. What I'd rather not do is help dress this up further or add a "syncing with your god-image" line that just continues the bit. Want me to give you the straight version of any of this instead?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877131&forum_id=2)#49961093)

wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877131&forum_id=2)#49961098)

so, if you were born in a serbian-speaking village in austria-hungary, you would be part of the serbian orthodox church. this church's older/more formal liturgical texts would mostly be in old church slavonic, while more day-to-day stuff would be in serbian.

the notion of an english-speaking eastern orthodox church is kind of silly at its core. it's a synthetic construct rather than an actual rooted institution, aside from any theology. that's why it seems kind of 'off' or fake in the modern american context.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877131&forum_id=2)#49961258)

it seems totally incoherent for there to be "eastern orthodox churches" in the US and for all these random white american anglo-german men to be signing up and acting like they 'get' the essence of the religion and culture and like it's something that's "part of them" when in reality they have zero connection to it whatsoever and they are just LARPing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877131&forum_id=2)#49961276)

if you didn't grow up in one of those churches, speaking a local eastern european or balkan language, you will never really be an eastern orthodox. that's not an 'identity' you can simply 'choose.' it's a process and an outcome, and if you're arriving at that stuff as an adult, you already missed it.

americans in particular don't like these facts, since it contradicts their generalized consumerist/individualist views of society.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877131&forum_id=2)#49961293)

what he's really saying is that "eastern orthodoxy" isn't a religion at all, and is in fact just a schelling point for ethno-cultural groups to organize themselves around

like what you're the puppet tp/mandy alluded to above

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877131&forum_id=2)#49961311)

And for all parties involved its a mating club.

That doesnt make the fake converts to the fake religion faker than the already fake adherents.

They all fetishize old world copulation that is to say rape

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877131&forum_id=2)#49961328)

otherwise yeah it's a larp. good theology though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877131&forum_id=2)#49961314)

Just convert to Catholicism which has a more based history and coherent philosophy anyway. You can be a turbo TradCath if you want to LARP

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877131&forum_id=2)#49961331)