I went to Lebanon for a holiday a few years ago. There was a gay pride march in Beruit and guess who were there marching for gay pride?
Not the muslims, not the jews, not the druze but the Maronites. Two men wearing thongs were literally wearing rosaries as they danced promiscuously. Even worse I swore I saw a few priests
I thought Middle Eastern Christians are supposed to be based. What happened?
This is something I noticed amongst many of them. I have a Syriac friend who says the Bible is only a myth and she's just a Christian cos muh heritage.
Blake Gonzalez
It's a prevalent theme in post V2 Catholicism, spreading her Americanism globally, and I don't want to get banned but this just doesn't happen in Orthodoxy.
Zachary Parker
Liberalism has been around since the year dot, fam, because people have always wanted out of the commitment they were born into. They never chose it, so it's not real to them. So, they are easily mislead and easily corrupted by the devil to bring shame upon the people of God. The biggest mistake the Church made was in failing to adhere to Paul's wisdom on Church discipline.
Stop blaming your boogie-mans and start looking at yourselves.
Ryan Brown
Maronites sided with NATO during the wars of the 80's.
A documentary I saw from shortly before the current Syrian Civil War showed a portrait of Assad inside of a church for what it's worth.
Parker Bailey
Meanwhile Assyrian forces have contributed to the anti-rebel effort despite reports of incidents of abuse and crimes against them from Kurds who are of a much stronger force.
What, against the Soviet-sponsored socialist islamist states. Oh, what a crime. because they know Assad is the only thing holding back the islamists from taking power
None of this is liberalism
Nolan Wilson
But JEWTO promotes liberalism, thus the possible reason for greater degeneracy compared to their non-JEWTO aligned counterparts. Just a logical and rational observation in my opinion.
Lincoln Thomas
As far as Im aware it's just a middle eastern thing to cling to religion without actually following it. My friend is from Egypt and he said as soon as ramadan is over most muslims will get straight into a six pack.
Im starting to think that no matter how religious a society is generally a certain percentage (around 5-10%) will be genuinly religious and the rest will just go along with whatever is popular
Camden Ortiz
Oh well, it's probably just a demonstration of the perpetual mortal reality, that it's difficult to adhere entirely to the ethics of a mostly imperceptible entity all the time and is probably a wonder if it is adhered to at all.
Nicholas Nelson
What, only Christians? I don't believe you.
Jose Cruz
I know a Maronite girl who sleeps with ten men per week, had more than twenty abortions.
Jordan Smith
There's your answer, mate. Go outside of Beirut, and the degeneracy and liberalism disappears (for the most part). The areas outside of Beirut are more conservative (depending which one you look at, with some being more conservative than others). Also. homosexuality is illegal here, so I don't know where this happened.
Assad protected *his* citizens, but the crimes he perpetrated against my people, my family, and Lebanese in general will never *ever* be forgotten.
She's most likely Maronite by name. I know plenty of "Maronite" girls who are Maronite only because of heritage. They don't follow Scripture, they don't follow the paths of the Saints, and they're extremely liberal. This mostly happens if they were born outside of Lebanon. If they were born here, and were raised with the Lebanese way of life, you most likely wouldn't see that filth happening.
Wyatt Morgan
Yep it's the nature of the perpetual conflict in the world. When sides keep being driven to fight eachother.
Brayden Allen
Honestly though, this doesn’t surprise me. Just remember that for every sodomite who wears a Rosary out of habit, there’s 10 or even 1000 that actually devoutly keep the faith of their ancestors and don’t give in to v2 bullcrap youtu.be/BUbKFiZ-ZyU
Sister Marie Keyrouz is a talent. Her work is really good.
Guys I would just like to tell you that the sodomites that wear rosaries and dance in their sodomite parades really do not represent the bulk of the Maronite community. They are a veeeeery small minority. These are city dwellers, which have fallen into the trap that is liberalism. To truly see the Maronite community, all you have to do is leave Beirut, and go to any district besides it. Go to the churches on Sunday, and you will see them filled (more or less, of course) with devout worshipers. Please do not get this bad image of us.
Noah Sullivan
I'm Orthodox.
Are the Assyrians /ourguys/ (Orthodox)?
Elijah Green
No. They’re literally Nestorians.
inb4 token church of the east poster comes in defending Nestorius
Anthony Thomas
You know, if your heretics just didn't change Catholic doctrine you people wouldn't be marrying and apologizing for the fags and pedos in your church.
Easton Brown
There are Nestorians and Chaldean Catholics, Syrian Orthodox, Melkites. There are Greek Orthodox in places like Maaloula. The Church of the East maintains that they aren't Nestorian as they're accused but that their belief has been misunderstood. This is similar to how the Oriental Orthodox rationalize the circumstances surrounding their schisms.
Lincoln Watson
Thank you for correcting me.
Matthew Martinez
No problem
Daniel Robinson
Well, it's still an unfounded statement since we condemn homosexuality doctrinally. It's like saying that orthodox are child traffickers because of the Russian and Romanian mafia in the late 20th century.
Aiden Powell
Based. Did the Orthodox clergy traffic children? Because the Catholic clergy rapes children, not even talking about the laity.
Robert Myers
Not clergy per sé, more the monks and nuns who ran orphanages.
The Soviets were some of the first to allow homosexuality and abortion. They were not a force against degeneracy, they were one of its biggest encouragers.
Sebastian Hall
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Daniel Edwards
Says who? It doesn't say that on the website. Right, but those are just a handful of cases. Sexual abuse of children is certainly most regrettable, whoever the perpetrator, but there's a huge difference if it's almost symptomatic like in Catholicism, or a rare exception like in Orthodoxy.
I though this catholics living in small communities would be faithful unlike westerners. Wtf is going on? I though Eastern catholics were more faithful than the west.
Henry Lewis
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Ryder Carter
Apparently it's just Beirut according to the Lebanese posting here.
Christopher Sanders
America is the epicenter for the spread of Liberalism by certain interested groups, notably the Freemasons.
Kevin Nguyen
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Easton Ward
Proof? It's quite understandable that western liberal democracies should have become the biggest advocates for it.
The Soviet film director Sergei Parajanov was convicted of homosexuality.
The track record for it in communist states is enough to give gay advocates plenty fuel for accusations of persecution against them up to this day. Just conservatards like you equate communism with corporatist social liberalism in your countries and act like communist states are supposed to have been a paradise for gays.
Even laws against it former self proclaimed socialist republics is rooted in legislation of the that era.
There aren't abuses in Syria, if that's what you're referring to. In the KRG, yeah they've gotten hostile lately and backtracked on their promises more than once, but they have huge representation in the DNFS. The co-president of the Syrian Democratic Council is a Syriac and so is the spokesperson of the SDF. Just a few days ago the Syriac Military Council sent reinforcements to Hajin with the Kurds.
I meant more the stuff you hear from regular folks, not media, and I remember these orphanages being something exclusively Romanian (or even Moldavian).
I accept the issues, but the guy generalizing that all catholics are gay pedos was just plain wrong and did as if the orthodox church doesn't have any problems whatsoever (which made him sound like a recent convert orthoLARPer tbh). Our main problem is the corruption and misconduct leading to these abuses, but in all honesty there aren't many cases I know of where I live either (I can name one guy, and maybe heard about two others). The one I remember was also hot news for the rest of the year. As far as I know it's mainly an American thing, though the cover-ups happened everywhere.