In this video, a response is given to a former-Orthodox believer who has left the faith for what appears be questionable reasons (i.e. fasting, lack of western saints, role of the priest, and Orthodoxy’s stance on justification.)
In this video, a response is given to a former-Orthodox believer who has left the faith for what appears be questionable reasons (i.e. fasting, lack of western saints, role of the priest, and Orthodoxy’s stance on justification.)
Orthodox Christian Theology 
I’m only halfway through, but one interesting connection to the biological precepts: When I was reading Gratian’s compilation of laws (put together around 1150), he addresses the question about whether women can go to church shortly after giving birth. He says clearly that yes, they can. And yet, he recognizes the reason for which some of them don’t (a combination of reverence for the Mysteries and perhaps a misguided notion about uncleanness, not unrelated to prescripts of the Old Law), and concludes that it is permissible for a woman to stay away from church for a couple weeks, or until receiving a blessing for a priest. This custom is nearly non-existent, but every so often there is a new mother out there who requests a “churching”. Wikipedia touches on the practice in both East and West:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churching_of_women
That looked like a strange hodge-podge of criticisms in the post, so that I couldn’t tell if your adversary was becoming Catholic or Protestant. That the person was Romanian almost makes sense of it all…but it is still a strange set of comments…
Why do you find it a “strange hodge-podge of criticisms”? And what has nationality to with it?
I found it strange because some of the complaints sounded Protestant (against fasting, views on justification) and some of them sounded Catholic (lack of Western saints, not enough reverence for St. Joseph).
As for being Romanian: Most Romanians are Orthodox to begin with, so that makes some sense of why they would not object to saints or St Joseph as such. And also gives some sense to how the complaints against Orthodoxy are really more complaints against “Eastern” Christianity, seeing in it a lack of Western aspects (whether they be Protestant or Catholic). The cultural starting point for Romanians is different than what you usually find in America, where the Catholic-Protestant dichotomy is more significant than the East-West one. So it is not so much of a hodge-podge as my American experience and habits would have led me to believe.
Oh, I see, I wrote to you on facebook, if you will check, also to Craig, if he would check. I perfectly understand why you find it strange now, and this is because, Craig is not completely fair to me (wrote him more about that). I’m no against fasting, it’s just that the eastern church is inhumane, theoretically you need to fast more that half a year summed up, now, no one really does that, or very least, a few(as Craig says in regards to other things). I was just finding it harsh, that’s all.
Sorry Dan, I thought I was responding fairly to your comment. You are in my prayers.
Max, Craig: I was talking about this:
http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2015/12/the-heretical-icon-of-holy-family.html
I just find it that many orthodox people like to demonize catholicism, when plain Christian logic tells you: They are our brothers in Christ, and by the way, they are kind of close to use, “look they have 7 sacramantes, their pope is friendly to us and so is our ecumenical patriarch to them, but no… only our stupid national version of orthodoxy is the right one”
It’s obviously a exageration, but you cannot imagine how this sort of sentiments and narrow minded thinking floats around here, to clergy and laity.