No salvation outside the church

Hey user if you're a smarty pants, may I humbly ask why you picked the Orthodox Church? You seem to be a convert as you're well read.

We could talk over email, discord or here.

Thanks

Nope, I was simply fascinated by how well you where able to respond in all the correct dimensions while raising your own points. Really, it was a compliment. Stop dogging your self.

Oh. I thought you were mocking me. Sorry, I misread you.
I'm really not a "smarty pants", as you put it, but we can talk if you want. Yes, I'm a convert. Maybe it would be better to talk over discord as this would be off-topic here and ten Baptists and Catholics would jump in to argue against me.
My Discord name and tag is The Backward Long Icon#7840 (don't ask). Reply to this so I can delete the post.

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Okay tell me this user. What is so magical about these negroes that you would regard them as all being true and sincere believers, while you don't seem to question me on saying that the average Church goer in the west is not?

I think you are doing the "grass is greener on the other side of the fence" thing. Either that or western countries truly are becoming shitholes and I should be thinking about moving to Africa in order to be in the company of better people.

As for explaining myself.

Don't you observe these things for yourself?

How people wear religions like costumes? What motivates them being anything but "the way, the truth, and the life"?

Maybe I am just surrounded by the worst people but everywhere I go I see the majority with wrong motives and little knowledge.

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children."
Hosea 4:6

You are talking about your experience, why should I claim you're spreading falsehood? I'm not where you are.
Likewise, I am talking about my experience, so do not claim that I am spreading falsehood.

If you want to shift the subect to "the average churchgoer in the West", we can do that. As an Orthodox Christian living in a Western country, the "average churchgoer" is of any origin (Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Romanian, French, Chilean, Greek, Lebanese, Afghani, Iraqi, Lybian, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Eritrean, Rwandese, Congolese), so that includes so-called "negroes". And the vast majority are "true and sincere believers" as you put it (but the group that is the most sloppy regarding taking the religion seriously is the Russians). So, if what you want is for me to address your claim that the average churchgoer in the West is a lazy scumbag who wants to belong to a group but not be truly religious, then my stance is that this isn't true according to my experience at all (although the Russians who are lazy about the faith and step outside in the middle of the liturgy to take a smoke are a bit of an embarassment).

I do observe this, although among a minority of people, all of which are either Russian or Romanian.
But it seems like you've completely disregarded what I pointed out above - that you sound like you are exalting yourself as one of great faith, while those other people are lazy scumbags and an insult to religion. If you're Orthodox, you should know by now to live by the motto of "look in your own plate" (sometimes literally so, considering how much we fast).

I completely forgot about the Romanis. To be fair, they usually don't know much of the language if at all, and they're extremely poor. Not having a car or a good grasp of the language, they rarely come to church, although when they do the church becomes packed. They have a very solid cult of the saints at home though.