/lit/ - Literature

>>20621866
>And Tolstoy himself, an author as praised as Dostoyevsky
lol Tolstoy is not nearly praised as much as Dostoyevsky, barely even a quarter as much as Dosto
>criticized Orthodoxy more than anyone
and this is why Tolstoy gets barely a quarter of the praise that Dosto gets. It's a concerted effort to push forth this Potemkin image of Russia as some kind of "Orthodox" village

>>20177120
I was merely summoned by the sheer quantity of dumb retarded shit prot->ortho converts would say about shit they've obviously never bothered looking into themselves and so in a sense, you are correct...but you must admit I've reduced my presence within the past month as I've noticed the fading of ortolarp retardery (which is really saying something for such an amusing eastern religion).

>>20159977
They've got foot fetishes

>>20124944
don't forget to take a nice big gulp
it'll boost your "orthodoxy" by +100!
Finally, reminder that "Orthodoxy" is a Schismatic Christian sect and has broken from actual Orthodoxy so many times that at this point it is more sencritism with shiny christian symbols as decoration than anything else. don't believe me? watch the vid below and read more history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rrzo55G364

What do they do with the foot water?

>>19993693
>>19993734
Ultimately any quest that begins with "I want God to be real and need him to be real so now I'd like to find him" if successful is a LARP regardless of the specific outcome, but personally I find the wishy-washy "spiritual but not religious" stuff to be as vapid as the tradcaths/orthobros. It is just making shit up without even a pretense to adhering to any teachings, traditions, or culture outside of yourself.

>>19785925
I'm not a Christian, so I don't really know. But it seems to me like reading books is a fairly small part of Christian life or any kind of life really. A big theme in Christianity is charity work. Go out and try and take care of the poor or the sick. Surely you have some time to volunteer. You can probably find some Christian-flavoured organisation that does this but you can always just volunteer at a homeless shelter or something. Oh and I guess you can read something by Saint John of the Cross. I've got a collection of his works and his poems are pretty charming.

>>19091241
Ask your priest or maybe some of your fellow church goers.

>>19030275
You don't want to know how christian priests make holy water then

>>18982521
>>18982548
>>18982554
tree worship > feet and the juices thereof worship

>>18649025
It's a bit open-ended, ranging from constant devotion to simply keeping the meme alive. Still, I see way too much of the former from religious folk and it's extremely weird. I can get keeping a set of ideas forged and tempered by different generations over the millennia, but some people go way too hard with it to the point where I wonder what kind of creator would even ask for it.

>>18451545
Come get your Real Religion Foot Water™

>>17744158
you will run to orthodox christianity which is not the Eastern Orthodox church

>>17459956
Repent.
There is still time.

>>17135698
repent

>>17112598
>*drinks feet juice for magical powers*

>>16874129
>Orthodox

>>16746379
>NOOOOOOO YOU ARE RETARDED IF YOU DONT WORSHIP A OMNIBENEVOLENT RAPIST SLAVER NOOOOO

>>15423117
>heh why would I want such a demonic blessing? *gulps* silly poos don't know that only Christian feet juice have spiritual power *burp*

Feet: A History, volume 1

Books on the history of the EO church?

>>15172060
>repent.
Of what? Paraphrasing Scripture?
Hebrews 4:15,16
>For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
>Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 5:10
>Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

Pick up a Bible sometime you foot worshiper.

>>14943274
>an ethnic exclusivist church? sounds like just what Christ intended

>>13652751
Don't forget your water in the way, obey the authority, fag.