Another day, another podcast! This time I'm on The Dodcast with host Luke Dodson, and our theme is the decline and fall of Faustian civilization. It was a good lively conversation covering a lot of ground. Check it out here.
As Jesus makes it clear that calling yourself a follower of Christ or a Christian doesn't make you a Christian, he also makes it clear that "those who are not against us, are for us."
I count many lovely non-Christians in this latter category (our host included), and in my view these are far more Christian in spirit, and that is what counts in the end, not what they call themselves. The "anti-Christ" is specifically something that pretends to be Christian and is not. Religious leaders telling their followers to take the fox or consider themselves sinner comes to mind. It's all about what you do, not what you say.
One surprise that many Orthodox representatives to ecumenical and inter religious movements came to discover through their work is that we Orthodox have far more in common with say, Orthodox Judaism, Ismaili Islam and certain forms of Buddhism, Native faiths or Paganism than Catholic or Protestant varieties of Christianity. An ethical Atheist is far preferable to fake Christianity.
Another day, another podcast! This time I'm on The Dodcast with host Luke Dodson, and our theme is the decline and fall of Faustian civilization. It was a good lively conversation covering a lot of ground. Check it out 
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Re: Geological limit?
Date: 2021-11-19 05:40 pm (UTC)I count many lovely non-Christians in this latter category (our host included), and in my view these are far more Christian in spirit, and that is what counts in the end, not what they call themselves. The "anti-Christ" is specifically something that pretends to be Christian and is not. Religious leaders telling their followers to take the fox or consider themselves sinner comes to mind. It's all about what you do, not what you say.
One surprise that many Orthodox representatives to ecumenical and inter religious movements came to discover through their work is that we Orthodox have far more in common with say, Orthodox Judaism, Ismaili Islam and certain forms of Buddhism, Native faiths or Paganism than Catholic or Protestant varieties of Christianity. An ethical Atheist is far preferable to fake Christianity.