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On Father Oleg Stenyev:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/113756394990685748
On Ultimate Victory:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/113580693873715294
On Christians of Extraordinary Ability in the Current Age:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/113285280321981821
On the Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/112669233349095267
On my Banning from Poast:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/112640323797191394
On the Failures of Western Christianity:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/111604627706826347
On the Final Chapter of the Red Pill on Women:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/111361381606313681
Darwinism II:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/110263989882771396
Darwinism I:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/109570020716535421
On the Royal Saints:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/109277008212013402
On the Cute Anime Girl:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/108937022230989181
On Implementing Patriarchy by Force:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/108454660344269481
On Abortion:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/108268356591693751
On the Non-Jewish Origins of Progressivism:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/108296838406390193
On the Slippery Slope “Fallacy:”
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/108334923154391975
On Saint Mary of Egypt:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/108063876637468444
On Leftism (OLD):
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/107489186705756611
On the Good Samaritan:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/107358315545772701
On Early Virgin Marriage:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/109000993012250097
On Restoring Patriarchy:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/107130010642080970
On Seraphim Rose:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/107063975544831808
On “Political Theology:”
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/107119984692458622
On Scientism:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/106497523339642033
First Gab Effortpost:
https://gab.com/neofugue1/posts/106417127984514492
Speaking in the temple to the high priests, scribes, and elders, Christ told them the parable: there was a Landowner who planted a vineyard with a wine press, a tower, and hedges around it, and lent it out to husbandmen. When the season of fruit drew near, He sent His servants, only for the husbandmen to beat one, kill another, and stone another. Again, He sent out more servants, only for the wicked husbandmen to do the same. At last, He sent them His only Son, but when the husbandmen saw the Son, they killed Him for His inheritance.
Having told the parable, the Savior asked them, “When, therefore, the Owner of the vineyard comes, what will He do to those husbandmen?”
“They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. But when they sought to lay hands of him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet” (Matthew 21:41-46).
As written in Homily 68 on the Gospel of Matthew, St. John Chrysostom writes his explanation of the parable as follows,
“Many things does He intimate by this parable, God's providence, which had been exercised towards [the Jews] from the first; their murderous disposition from the beginning; that nothing had been omitted of whatever pertained to a heedful care of them; that even when prophets had been slain, He had not turned away from them, but had sent His very Son; that the God both of the New and of the Old Testament was one and the same; that His death should effect great blessings; that they were to endure extreme punishment for the crucifixion, and their crime; the calling of the Gentiles, the casting out of the Jews...For He does not plead, Himself, saying, What ought I to have done that I have not done? but brings in themselves to judge, that nothing has been wanting, and to condemn themselves. For when they say, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out the vineyard to other husbandmen, they say nothing else than this, publishing their sentence with much greater force.[1]”
The Householder is God, the husbandmen are the Jews, the hedges around the vineyard are the commandments of God, the wine press is the sacrifice in the Old Testament covenant prefiguring the death on the Cross, the tower is the Temple in Jerusalem, the overseers are the chief priests, scribes, and elders, the servants are the holy prophets, and the Son of the Householder is the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ. Despite the Pharisees standing at the head of the Jewish people, having received the power to prepare the people to accept the Savior, they used this power to satiate their own evil desires and crucified Him. While this wickedness would eventually lead to their suicidal war with Rome and the destruction of the Temple in 70AD, the everlasting result was that the Kingdom of God was taken from them and given to another, the Church of Christ, opened to all peoples.
In the parable of the wicked husbandmen, Christ tells the Jews that they are straying from the path of God, and that if they do not accept Him, the Kingdom of God will be taken from them and they will be destroyed. To be like Christ, therefore, is not to be “nice,” for to be "nice" is to be of this world. To be like Christ is to take up the Cross and follow Him, though there will be many who hateth you for it. To warn those who turn away from God to either repent or be destroyed; it is love.
As is the word of God:
"But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning" (John 15: 26-27).
[1]: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/200168.htm
[2]: More information on the parable can be found in Law of God, compiled by Archpriest Seraphim Slobodskoy, which aided in the writing of this post.
Andrew Anglin posits as follows, “from my perspective, [Trump] is actually worse, because now right-wing people are all buying back into the system, when previously they were ready to abandon it and start looking for other options as to how to solve the problems of America. It’s also going to be sad when young white men line up to go fight in Israel’s wars.” [1]
This concern is incorrect for two key reasons:
First, it is impossible for the faction behind Trump to reverse the Great Resignation.
Second, our immediate survival is dependent on us being necessary to maintain the regime.
Trump is needed to reverse the Great Resignation in order to ensure the survival of the state of Israel. If disaffected White men drop out of the system, women and third-world biomass will not be able to operate as competent soldiers, engineers and skilled workers, as illustrated by Boeing’s continuous failures in aviation and aerospace. If Trump is elected and implements at least some elements of his platform, their theory entails, young White men will "forget" the blatant election fraud of 2020 and reenlist in Democratic society, thus allowing the United States and its proxies to continue to operate as the preeminent global superpower in perpetuity.
However, it is politically and ideologically impossible for the faction behind Trump to undo the root cause of the Great Resignation, that is, the destruction of the monogamous patriarchal family. The foundation of civilization is the social contract, that in return for a loyal virgin wife and kids, a man is expected to toil and suffer for the system. Sure, the regime may or may not be able to reverse some elements of affirmative action, restore the talent pipeline, and boost military recruitment, but as it is politically impossible to reverse the destruction of the family, they will not be able to get millions of White men to fight and die for them.
It cannot be emphasized enough that our ultimate victory may only be achieved by playing the long game, remaining within the system and retaining as much political powers as possible until the right time to strike.
Mussolini took power by marching on Rome with his Blackshirts. When Hitler tried the same thing in Munich one year after, his men were shot and he went to prison. Just as Hitler’s path to power was different from Mussolini’s, our path to power will be different from Hitler’s, the key difference that unlike the Weimar Republic, America is run by the enemy. As illustrated by Steve King, the electoral process is forever shut.
Our path to power will emulate the struggle of the Han Chinese overthrowing the Manchu Qing dynasty. The Qing, similar to the Democratic regimes in the West today, consisted of a foreign ruling class ruling over a large empire, only that the majority of the current ruling class right now are intent on our annihilation. Our immediate goal is to be taken off the metaphorical genocide list and being put on the metaphorical loyal subjects list, and Trump's regime will help us achieve this goal. Once we are in a position where our immediate survival is not directly threatened, we can begin building up the necessary social, cultural, and political infrastructure needed to overthrow the Democratic regimes when the time arises. [2]
The only reason why we still exist is because the regime needs us to maintain itself, in particular the survival of the state of Israel. If White men defect to the point where we are no longer around to fulfill this purpose, the faction behind Kamala would have the political capital to have us all killed. Andrew Anglin, the remnant shards of the Alt-Right and Nick Fuentes are all wrong regarding their strategy for political change—our path is not through dropping out but rather by remaining within the system as long as possible. Trump fulfilling or not fulfilling his promises does not matter; even if he falls short, him keeping White men in the system will stave off the Leftist terror for another four years, giving us much-needed time to make propaganda, start families, build our audience, and create networks within our communities.
Remember, the Left is evil but ultimately right about us; the longer the regime waits to have us killed, the more likely it is for us to kill them first. The enemy has held back utopia to save Israel—a huge mistake on their part. We will make them regret it!!!
[1]: https://dailystormer.in/the-fact-that-the-candidate-who-got-the-most-votes-won-the-election-doesnt-mean-it-was-a-real-election/
[2]: Image is of the Nanjing road in Shanghai following the 1911 Revolution. Note what happened to the Manchus at that time...
When the non-monastic layman looks for role models, he discovers that the vast majority of our saints are either monastics or martyrs. While these saints are important for guidance in spiritual matters, their extraordinary lives are detached from the ordinary life of the layman. Monks have the distinction of not having children, whereas martyrs chose death over compromise, serving as symbols of the faith against evil. There are those who mention the occasional non-monastic such as Saint John of Krondstadt, but though a non-monastic he was nonetheless celibate.
The Orthodox Christian righteous kings and pious queens serve as role models because they were sainted for their worldly achievements. Though the lives of Saint Justinian or Saint Irene of Hungary, pictured below, were far removed from that of the average layman today, both share the goal of family and children, to create a world where their children can live in Christ. Therefore, while the monks and martyrs may guide the faithful better in terms of spiritual matters, the royal saint is just as if not more relevant to the layman in terms of worldly matters.
There are many great things that the contemporary Orthodox faithful ought to emulate from our righteous kings and pious queens. They built glorious cathedrals of great splendor and beauty. They defeated the Pagans and brought entire populations under the faith. They practiced proper morals in the form of traditional marriage and had many children. However, their greatest importance is that they represent men and women of whom God is alive. When Nietzsche gave his famous proclamation, “God is dead,” he was not asserting Atheism, rather observing how Christians lost their faith during the latter half of the nineteenth century. If one says he believes that murder is wrong but that it ought not to be punished through hanging, jail, or even a fine, his belief is empty. Likewise, if one says he believes that Jesus Christ is Lord, that the only way to God is through the faith, and that truth is determined by the Church, but that he does not believe in monarchy, a state church, and a state faith, his faith in Christ is just as absurd, hence “God is dead.” The royal saints are key figures because, like the martyrs, the symbolize the truth of the Christian faith, that Jesus Christ is Lord, that he does not compromise, and that anyone who declares otherwise is of antichrist and ought to be destroyed.
The final chapter of the Red Pill is the realization that our ancestors were right to practice early marriage for women. While it is good for women to remain celibate, if they cannot contain, it is better for them to marry at a young age than to burn, and it is wicked and evil to prevent them from marrying. Artificial age restrictions on marriage are immoral, unjust, and ungodly.
Whether of the Dark Enlightenment or the Manosphere, the Red Pill represents truth over the false demons of Equality, Progress and Enlightenment. However, the Red Pill is also an allegory of the spiritual struggle involved with seeking answers, as the further one descends into its chapters the more one wanders off the Overton Window into the abyss of ideological alienation.
This discomfort is the result of a corrupted culture, the distorted behaviors, values, beliefs, and symbols that our current regime inculcates in its subjects through its control of the microphone, thus allowing it to create an official artificial reality. While it is becoming common knowledge that Marie Antoinette never said, “let them eat cake,” it is far less known that Uncle Tom never existed (Harriet Beecher Stowe invented him in Maine), Marie Curie was a respectable but otherwise unnoteworthy scientist (no one can name the man who discovered Radon, a far more important element than Radium), and that Amelia Earhart was carried across the Atlantic by a man. When Leftism cannot find something to distort, Leftism will invent; the evil slave trader in “Django Unchained,” the noble bugger in “Philadelphia,” and the woman genius in “The Queen’s Gambit” are some of countless examples. As such, taking the Red Pill is like climbing out of Plato’s cave, with the shadows off the wall having a more literal meaning.
Leftism will demonize moral behavior by associating good with evil. According to the shadows off the wall, supposedly one hates negroes because magical, women because wonderful, and gays because so stylish. “Child marriage” is also a distortion, a cultural idée fixe comparable to the evil Nazi, the exploitative sweatshop owner, the drunken wife-beater, or the sadistic slave owner. The goal of Leftist propaganda is to trick the audience into confusing its target with wickedness by association, that loving one’s nation means killing Jews, that owning a business means exploiting workers, that having a traditional marriage means abusing one’s wife, et cetera. The contemporary cultural impression of early marriage originates from Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, a story about a man who marries a woman in order to abuse his stepdaughter. Nabokov conflates fornication and lying with a woman and her daughter, both wicked sins, with early marriage for women, when what Humbert did would have been just as evil whether or not Lolita had been six years older.
If one has taken the Red Pill without vomiting it purple, the cultural conceptions of Leftism will be revealed to him as no more than fixations designed to cover for immoral acts. Is it any wonder then, that those who decry “child marriage” are also the most enthusiastic about spreading abortion, birth control, pornography, and decadence to every corner of the globe? Is it any wonder then, that those who fixate on “child marriage” are those most dedicated to the cause of providing sex education in the interest of turning every young woman in the world whore through the feminist life plan? The obsession with “marriageable age” and “consent” is nothing more than a pretension to mask an evil intent. Should Leftism find the existence of sunflowers as a threat to its Gnostic eschaton, we would conflate sunflowers with manure. However, no amount of propaganda can stop someone, should he find a sunflower in the field, from finding it beautiful.
It is surprising how something like Violet Evergarden (2018) could be created in this age, or perhaps it should not considering this came from a country which only fell under Leftism as a result of military defeat less than a century ago, but the show’s fifth episode portrays early marriage for women in a positive light away from the corrupting influence of contemporary Progressive culture. On the request of the military, our heroine Violet is sent to the kingdom of Drossel in order to write a public love letter correspondence for its teenage princess, Charlotte, to Damian, the prince of the neighboring kingdom of Flugel. The episode stands on its own, independent of the show as a whole, standing as a sunflower in a field independent of the shadows off the wall.
Link as follows: aniwave.to/watch/violet-evergarden.mymp/ep-5
In conclusion, while this little animation from across the world perhaps cannot stand on its own against the endless filth of Progressive media, perhaps you, dear reader, may find it beautiful for yourself. Can one look at the romance between Charlotte and Damian as anything other than cute and wholesome?
The fall of the West began with the Great Schism and the Thomistic incorporation of Aristotelian metaphysics into Christianity. While the Orthodox ground their theology on revealed doctrine, the West grounds its theology on empirical observation based on foundationalism. The problem with the latter system, as was predicted by St. Gregory Palamas over seven centuries ago, is that created effects cannot point to divine causes, leading to atheism. Darwin was the first to discover a system of causation accounting for the origin of man independent of the “watchmaker” God, thus making Him unnecessary and irrelevant.
Darwinism falsifies Christianity by negating the Fall and thus the Resurrection. If man was subject to death before the Fall, his human nature was subject to sin and decay as well. If there is no pre-fallen natural state of man, Christ could not have risen from the dead as his resurrected body would be subject to sin and decay. If no Fall, Gnosticism follows, the Resurrection is absurd, Theosis is a delusion, and participation in the life of Christ is impossible.
There are those who attempt to combine the two systems through “theistic evolution,” but this approach fails, not only for the reasons listed above, but also as the order of events in Genesis do not correspond to the scientific consensus and allegorizing scripture in this manner is condemned in the Fifth and Sixth Ecumenical Councils along with the heretic Origen. Others try to use the scientific method to argue against Darwin, but this approach only reveals ignorance on the part of the proponent. Rejecting evolution in its entirety, the Western Creationist ignores the effects of the Fall on man, in particular with respect to men and women.
Therefore, for the Christian, the only effective solution to the conflict is to reject Western Christianity and adopt the Orthodox conception of creation and the natural world.
The essence-energies distinction, the doctrine that the actions of God are distinct from the essence of God, is key to this paradigm shift. Western Christianity is heretical because it denies this distinction based on human conceptions of simplicity, thus relegating God to a distant first cause separated from his creation. In the Orthodox faith, God is not the first cause or the “watchmaker” God, God is greater than and distinct from creation while acting as creator and the supreme animating force behind the universe, maintaining all things and all beings through his energies, even if those beings reject Him. The Logos is not “logic,” the Logos is the supreme universal, and the Logoi each particular universal.
Through the Orthodox conception of panentheism, it becomes possible to apply a framework that asserts the historicity of Genesis while allowing the believer to understand the eons of modern cosmology in a Christian paradigm. While science is in part the observation of natural phenomena, it is not strictly speaking observation alone rather a process of interpreting the natural world. Darwin’s earthworm is not isomorphic with evolution; the creature dissected in the lab is interpreted by the individual scientist given his epistemological framework based on accumulated knowledge, not through a “self-evident” blank slate of “pure facts.” This distinction, referred to in philosophy as the problem of induction, is the metaphorical axe to universal causality.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, and on the sixth day he created man in his image. Because of the Fall in the Garden of Eden, man became subject to death, decay, and corruption, and as such God rewrote the world as we see it today. As the universe is a product of God’s energies, God is free to perform miracles and to rewrite his creation at will. Through Holy Orthodoxy, it is possible to believe in creation without being required to make claims contrary to science as the faithful can view science on a subjective basis.
The miracle of the Holy Fire is held every year at the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Candles lit by the Holy Fire do not emanate heat for 33 minutes. Just as when Christ walked on water, turned water into wine, and rose from the dead, God is able to suspend causality at will. Just as with the Holy Fire, our interpretation of cosmology and the age of the universe is not bound to cause and effect, it is understood through revealed doctrine and the authority of the Church.
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Pictured below:
St. Basil the Great, author of the Hexameron, an ancient patristic text on Genesis.
An image of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem.
I look forward to this Sunday.
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