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<blockquote data-quote="Aboulia" data-source="post: 1350236" data-attributes="member: 16697">I think 1 Corinthians 10:28-33 applies here, although we're not eating, we're performing actions as sacrifice to the idol of public opinion. Ideally, you should have no issue wearing a mask yourself, but you're to be bothered with the impact it has around you; with that in mind, to wear a mask is not to love your brother, to wear a mask is to make the statement &quot;either you or I or potentially diseased, and there should be additional barriers between us&quot;. I don't believe my brother should be treated as a leper. In my parish we have a few people that wear masks, and it really bothers me. I need to sit down and flesh out a list of why it shouldn't be then talk to the priest.If veneration of icons were prohibited, or communion was altered/ceased, there would be no reason to go to church, since the priests/bishops put themselves outside the Orthodox church. The real church would be underground again, for those things are not optional.It's not going to change, social <s>distancing</s> alienation is here to stay. It was the whole point of this mass hysteria, to further break down bonds and divide people, so they won't rebel when the economy disintegrates. I didn't foresee the enforcement of masks, but it makes sense why they're pushed from a control perspective. Climate change didn't bother many people, but the germ fearmongering sure did.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aboulia, post: 1350236, member: 16697"] I think 1 Corinthians 10:28-33 applies here, although we're not eating, we're performing actions as sacrifice to the idol of public opinion. Ideally, you should have no issue wearing a mask yourself, but you're to be bothered with the impact it has around you; with that in mind, to wear a mask is not to love your brother, to wear a mask is to make the statement "either you or I or potentially diseased, and there should be additional barriers between us". I don't believe my brother should be treated as a leper. In my parish we have a few people that wear masks, and it really bothers me. I need to sit down and flesh out a list of why it shouldn't be then talk to the priest. If veneration of icons were prohibited, or communion was altered/ceased, there would be no reason to go to church, since the priests/bishops put themselves outside the Orthodox church. The real church would be underground again, for those things are not optional. It's not going to change, social [S]distancing[/S] alienation is here to stay. It was the whole point of this mass hysteria, to further break down bonds and divide people, so they won't rebel when the economy disintegrates. I didn't foresee the enforcement of masks, but it makes sense why they're pushed from a control perspective. Climate change didn't bother many people, but the germ fearmongering sure did. [/QUOTE]

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