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Apparently that scar of his split open whenever they dropped him on the gallows.
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thats brutal
 
"Hitlerism is the handmaid of communism." -Fr. Seraphim Rose. In his writings he points out the absolute incompatibility between hitlerism and Orthodox Christian thought. If hitler wasn't christian, then he was an infidel, if he was "christian", then he was a marcionist heretic. An enemy of God either way.
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"Hitlerism is the handmaid of communism." -Fr. Seraphim Rose. In his writings he points out the absolute incompatibility between hitlerism and Orthodox Christian thought. If hitler wasn't christian, then he was an infidel, if he was "christian", then he was a marcionist heretic. An enemy of God either way.
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"Hitlerism" is not a real thing... Hitler wasn't into this "ideology" bullcrap, he just did what he wanted
 
"The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes."
-Martin Luther
I wouldn't expect a man as well-learned as Luther to write something this odd. What of all the women who remain single and dedicated to God out of Paul's advice in 1 Corinthians 7:8-9 (and for a verse also in that chapter that explicitly refers to advice for women lacking a husband, 1 Corinthians 7:39-40)? To all of our believing women who have lived an unmarried life in pursuit of God's will (female monastics, nuns, saints like Saint Nino, Saint Agatha, the list is extensive), this is nothing wise, but only an insult.
 
To all of our believing women who have lived an unmarried life in pursuit of God's will (female monastics, nuns, saints like Saint Nino, Saint Agatha, the list is extensive),
Brides of Christ, bound by their faith
What of all the women who remain single and dedicated to God out of Paul's advice in 1 Corinthians 7:8-9
remain unwed for as long as you wish, but the two most important roles you can have in this life are parent, and spouse
this is nothing wise, but only an insult.
An insult to those without self control or faith perhaps, your view of it is much too surface level He is not saying all women are to be married/whored but that ultimately there are two paths for the modern woman and conscious or not she will manifest one of these architypes
"For woman seems to be a creature somewhat different from man, in that she has dissimilar members, a varied form and a mind weaker than man. Although Eve was a most excellent and beautiful creature [...] yet she was a woman. For as the sun is more glorious than the moon, though the moon is a most glorious body, so woman, though she was a most beautiful work of God, yet she did not equal the glory of the male creature"
-Martin Luther
 
Brides of Christ, bound by their faith

remain unwed for as long as you wish, but the two most important roles you can have in this life are parent, and spouse

An insult to those without self control or faith perhaps, your view of it is much too surface level He is not saying all women are to be married/whored but that ultimately there are two paths for the modern woman and conscious or not she will manifest one of these architypes
"For woman seems to be a creature somewhat different from man, in that she has dissimilar members, a varied form and a mind weaker than man. Although Eve was a most excellent and beautiful creature [...] yet she was a woman. For as the sun is more glorious than the moon, though the moon is a most glorious body, so woman, though she was a most beautiful work of God, yet she did not equal the glory of the male creature"
-Martin Luther
I see, and thank you for writing back to me. You're right about my surface-level understanding of this quote, as I believe I understood him wrong because to me it only seemed like he was writing some dichotomous absurdity in a poorly-worded attempt to boldly commend marriage as a valuable institution (and it is valuable, of course. Paul was a special man and few of us, a few who are without the chains of passion, can truly live special lives for God).

Reading back on it, there's a lot more to decipher in his words beyond what I thought, as, just as a bride to Christ is bound by faith and thus remains loyal to Him as she is brought joy by His love, a prostitute to Satan (a disbeliever) is bound to the devil by no power but her own (repentance remains an option), though even as she feels the need to dabble in evil for a vain gain that she feels is a necessity for her, that very life will ultimately destroy her in all manners of being, just as it does for an actual prostitute.
 
“Evangelize the niggers so that they stay forever in submission to the white colonialists, so they never revolt against the restraints they are undergoing. Recite every day — ‘happy are those who are weeping because the kingdom of God is for them.’ Convert always the blacks by using the whip. Keep their women in nine months of submission to work freely for us. […] Teach the niggers to forget their heroes and to adore only ours. Never present a chair to a black that comes to visit you. Don’t give him more than one cigarette. Never invite him to dinner even if he gives you a chicken every time you arrive at his house.”

-King Leopold II of Belgium, 1883
 
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