/lit/ - Literature

>>21320269
I don't deny that he's smart, but when taken in full the main thrust of his entire worldview and the axiom that all of his arguments hinge on is that if you don't adhere to his specific brand of Christianity you're automatically wrong and you should basically just go fuck yourself because you're probably possessed by demons or something and you're never going to go to Heaven unless you prostrate before the glory of Eastern Orthodoxy, grow a beard, and deny all geological and astronomical data that blatantly implies that the world is billions of years old

His tone persistently drips with the presumption that anyone who disagrees with him must be harboring secret ulterior motives, that clearly every worldview besides his own is not only mistaken but actively diabolical in nature; it's tautological

Orthodoxy is the One True Church (nevermind that every other Christian denomination claims this with equal fervor), any religious experiences or visions outside of this specific tradition are automatically demonic (why his own religion is exempt from this qualification is unclear), nothing about modernity is good and it was so much better in ancient times when you got tortured and immolated for disagreeing with a bishop and lived as a serf toiling in disease-ridden filth all day, and the answer to the Problem of Evil is to shut up and trust the plan and that you're probably just a whiny American, just pull yourself up by your boostraps bro (yes, it's totally necessary for the greater good for children to be trafficked and tortured for years and for hundreds of genocides to occur, God is totally absolved of guilt for this somehow)

Teenagers and immature young adults who spend too much time on social media will be seduced by the vapid glamour of tradLARPing and approve of ridiculous outlandish shit being spouted as "based" because it gets rid of the need to actually make intelligent arguments when you can just act aggressively retarded and post a heckin' epic gigachad meme in an orthodogs hat as a substitute for making any kind of case for your position

>>21233802
>Cope
>More cope
>Super cope.

>>20486418
>"woah did you like... actually make an argument against my point? kinda sound like an atheist bro, that's pretty cringe, check out this meme about how women should stay in the KITCHEN, haha, BASED"
I am an idiot honestly, I recognize that, because I actually thought that it would be beneficial in any way to try and argue with fake e-Christians; go enjoy pretending to be an obnoxious and smug zealot for a religion you don't even believe in as a substitute for having an actual personality

>>19005620
>t.

>>18311741
He did more than any other person to popularize Orthodoxy in America and by extension made Orthodoxy a meme denomination for LARPers because once Americans touch anything it turns into shit

>>18193742
>>18193784
>t.

>>17634416

>>16658009
>Just choose based on which has the most BASED aesthetics, you can always switch later on