I don't know specifically, but I know Ancient Faith Radio have come down on the pro vaccine side so...Has Father Stephen Damick Young said anything in regards to the vaccine?
I don't know specifically, but I know Ancient Faith Radio have come down on the pro vaccine side so...Has Father Stephen Damick Young said anything in regards to the vaccine?
I did not know that but it’s not surprising. It still scandalizes me that clergy support their flock, or anyone, to take the vaccine that at one point in its development, used the the blood of innocent unborn children. Do the clergy know this or do they just not care?I don't know specifically, but I know Ancient Faith Radio have come down on the pro vaccine side so...
I can't speak for any clergy. However I've heard pro-vax arguments from Orthodox people (non clergy) that essentially acknowledge the fetal tissue problem and just shrug it off or explain it away with fallacies.I did not know that but it’s not surprising. It still scandalizes me that clergy support their flock, or anyone, to take the vaccine that at one point in its development, used the the blood of innocent unborn children. Do the clergy know this or do they just not care?
AFR wants to sell as many books as possible to as wide an audience as possible hence their leader’s (Fr. Damick) refusal to take a stand on these important topics. He doesn’t want to offend the prots and other Larpers.Imagine calling your platform an Orthodox Christian ministry and having "no position" on issues like Marxism and abortion-promoting political candidates.
Imagine calling your platform an Orthodox Christian ministry and having "no position" on issues like Marxism and abortion-promoting political candidates.
I checked out their public tax statements. They don't make that much money to justify deplatforming abbots. Looks like they generate about $2 million a year in revenue.AFR wants to sell as many books as possible to as wide an audience as possible hence their leader’s (Fr. Damick) refusal to take a stand on these important topics. He doesn’t want to offend the prots and other Larpers.
The persecutions he regularly endures are indicative, at least to me, of a man who takes his faith seriously and has devoted his life to Christ.Deplatform anyone ten inches to the right, but host people ten yards to the left. It's Ben Shapiroism.
Abbot Tryphon is courageous enough to call out not just evil, but those doing so specifically, as Christ did, as St. John the Forerunner did, as St. John Chrysostom did, etc. This deplatforming also comes immediately after he was forced to step down from his chaplain position with Vashon Island police and fire due to his "unvaccinated," i.e., "unclean" status. He was kicked while he was down.
Huh? There is no Sacramental Grace outside the One Holy Catholic Orthodox Church. The RC sacraments are graceless and that’s NOT debatable.Catholics do have apostolic succession, but whether their Eucharist is valid is debatable. He may have just meant that they believe that their Eucharist is real.
I want to second this take.Fr. Damick’s attempt to create a stranglehold on internet Orthodoxy is, by God’s Providence, tremendously helping us separate the wheat from the chaff. Ancient Faith - for which he is Content Chief - is happy to host a “pro-choice” feminist, but deplatforms Abbott Tryphon for speaking out against Marxism.
Fr. Damick, and Ancient Faith, have chosen their team. What a blessing for false leaders to identify themselves so clearly! May God bless those standing up for the Orthodox Faith, and have mercy on Fr. Damick.
Damage control.
His sermon today: