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From Orthodoxy to Catholicism
Jayden Perry
Jaxson Diaz
Thomas Edwards
I don't have the standard deviation or any other info but I'd say these statistics are about the same.
This is no definite proof but it does show a correlation between practicing catholics, of which going to mass each sunday is the utter minimum, and opposition to same-sex marriage.
I guess the 5% regular mass attenders in favor for same-sex marriage are all the Jesuit priests. :^)
Oliver Allen
woah there.
Carter Jackson
I am going to shamelessly bring this thread back from the grave.
This post resonated with me deeply. I've been spending the past couple years trying to discern where God is calling me, I spent about a year going to mass and I have spent the last several months going to an Orthodox parish. Intellectually I find myself in agreement with the Orthodox on things like the essence/energy distinction (versus divine simplicity) and the concept of ekonomia, but as OP said, Orthodoxy really is a passive spiritual refuge. I don't think that you need to try to "change the world" to be saved, but I fail to see how God would ever hold it against someone for trying. Catholicism is in a sorry state at the moment, certainly, but it is such an active moral force in the world and I feel called to a life of action rather than contemplation.
I see Catholics on Zig Forums who say that the Church cannot change its teaching, that the Pope cannot fall into heresy, that the Church's modernism is an error that will fall away. I want to believe that. It's hard when I see a Church that seems to have its day to day operations run predominantly by boomer feminists, when there are a dozen lay persons distributing communion into people's grubby mitts, altar girls, Pope Francis perpetually shilling for Western peoples to continue being displaced by 3rd world savages, celebrating the anniversary of heretics, Sodomites who are never defrocked… How can this be the bride of Christ? Orthodoxy doesn't have to deal with any of this, there are some internal schisms and the EP is arguably too ecumenical. That's it.
Please understand that I'm not trying to disparage Catholics, I admire your faithfulness in the face of opposition. At this time believe I probably will continue on the path into Orthodoxy but I want to hear from /ourpapists/.
Justin Hall
Orthodoxy isn't nearly as strong in the west as Catholicism. I don't think it could really change the world if it tried with all it's might. But given time, I think it could become as strong a cultural and moral force here as it is in places like Russia.