“If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice” -St. John Chrysostom
Good_Username_exe on
Very un-nuanced straw man of St John Chrysostom’s beliefs. Then again you are mocking those who cherry pick quotes from him to justify their bigotry so that may be intentional.
ClassicTable104 on
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magotartufo on
Damn those yellow-bellied chuds.
Edit : I am very proud of that joke.
Leprechaun_lord on
Religion is often the retroactive justification for already established political theory instead of the motivation for said theory.
TSSalamander on
Genuinely one of the funniest realisations i had reading history was that the overwhelming majority of hetero men were preferentially monogamous. And that most forms of polygany were in fact social tools more than they were male sexual debauchery with a legal framework. the Sultan did not have a harem because he wanted it, he had it because it was a required tool of statecraft and aristocrat management.
GrandDukeNotaras on
He wasn’t even a bishop when he said the more provocative thingsÂ
QizilbashWoman on
Henry Abromson once said something like “his name should actually have been John Cacostom”
No-Professional-1461 on
Based. Based. Based.
GustavoistSoldier on
Early saints had mixed opinions on marriage.
durandal688 on
His views on Judaism really ratcheted up cause his congregation didnt see the difference…they had superstitions about going by a synagogue for good luck or something I’d don’t recall. But essentially his sermons got increasingly vile as a sign that no one was heeding him. Still bad…but I think a lesson for us all that most vile words and actions have excuses and reasons we need to watch out for…so we don’t do the same
But yeah early church man not liking homosexuality is what I’d say is normal for the time
ashitananjini on
Ok but what does he think about women? Specifically single women?
chupsneeze on
Oh yeah, I guess this 1600 year old Eastern Orthodox Christian Saint wasn’t woke as hell.
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“If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice” -St. John Chrysostom
Very un-nuanced straw man of St John Chrysostom’s beliefs. Then again you are mocking those who cherry pick quotes from him to justify their bigotry so that may be intentional.
context left the chat
Damn those yellow-bellied chuds.
Edit : I am very proud of that joke.
Religion is often the retroactive justification for already established political theory instead of the motivation for said theory.
Genuinely one of the funniest realisations i had reading history was that the overwhelming majority of hetero men were preferentially monogamous. And that most forms of polygany were in fact social tools more than they were male sexual debauchery with a legal framework. the Sultan did not have a harem because he wanted it, he had it because it was a required tool of statecraft and aristocrat management.
He wasn’t even a bishop when he said the more provocative thingsÂ
Henry Abromson once said something like “his name should actually have been John Cacostom”
Based. Based. Based.
Early saints had mixed opinions on marriage.
His views on Judaism really ratcheted up cause his congregation didnt see the difference…they had superstitions about going by a synagogue for good luck or something I’d don’t recall. But essentially his sermons got increasingly vile as a sign that no one was heeding him. Still bad…but I think a lesson for us all that most vile words and actions have excuses and reasons we need to watch out for…so we don’t do the same
But yeah early church man not liking homosexuality is what I’d say is normal for the time
Ok but what does he think about women? Specifically single women?
Oh yeah, I guess this 1600 year old Eastern Orthodox Christian Saint wasn’t woke as hell.