Attacking Straw Men with Half-Truths

Someone just sent me a good example of an orthodox proponent of syncretistic ecumenism following the new ecclesiology of Vatican II: https://publicorthodoxy.org/…/on-ecumenoclasm-who-can-be-s…/

(The ecclesiology of Vatican II is a...

This is my bishop, the Metropolitan of Ierissou and Agion Oros [The Holy Mountain], His Eminence THEOKLETOS.

On the "red line" which must not be crossed and the state of apostasy...and the Pan Orthodox Council....

Some insist that, no matter how bad things are, contemporary ecumenists - and they have in mind mainly the Hierarchs of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (but not only) - "are not ready to compromise the Orthodox Faith enough to achieve union with Rome."

But, is that the "red line" which...

Lecture delivered at the Diacideian Institute, Patra, Greece, Wednesday, May 18th, 2016

A transcript of the talk will be soon be available in Greek and a translation into English.

«Από την Β΄ Βατικανή (1965) στην Πανορθόδοξη Σύνοδο (Κρήτη 2016)» - π. Πέτρος Χιρς, Δρ. Θεολογίας

Would it surprise you to know that in Orthodox countries around the world, people are growing their own food, and doing so like crazy. They are producing massive amounts of food in small areas, which benefit themselves, their neighbors, and their economies on a broad scale.

Russians growing their own food.

Did you know that most food in Russia comes from backyard...

In vain do some of the Orthodox marvel at the current propaganda of the Roman Church, at the feigned selflessness and activity of her missionaries and at the zeal of the Latin sisters of mercy, and incorrectly ascribe to the Latin Church such importance, as if by her apostasy from the Orthodox Church, the latter remained longer such, and has the necessity to seek unification with the former. On rigorous...

The criteria of the Holy Fathers for who should be received by akriveia and who should be received by economy are such that 99% of converts today should be received by akriveia. The nonsense talked about in this article (below) is so far removed from anything that the Holy Fathers could even imagine, rather than signal a possible, future, and general reversion to akriveia we should...