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<blockquote data-quote="Roosh" data-source="post: 1539663" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><em>Originally posted on <a href="https://www.rooshv.com" target="_blank">RooshV.com</a></em></p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.rooshv.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ufo-america-1024x692.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Orthodoxy-Religion-Future-Seraphim-Rose/dp/188790400X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?dchild=1&keywords=orthodoxy+and+religion+of+the+future&qid=1635289576&sr=8-2&x=0&y=0&linkCode=ll1&tag=rooshlog-20&linkId=e7766f2a2bc692c8e4b6fea45b376094&language=en_US" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.rooshv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/book-orthodoxy.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future is one of <a href="https://www.rooshv.com/the-orthodox-survival-course-by-father-seraphim-rose" target="_blank">Father Seraphim Rose’s</a> most popular works, apparently moreso in Russia than in the United States, where I read that it is offered for sale in subway stations (in America, good luck finding it in a physical bookstore). The book offers a summary of all false religious phenomena that are helping to condemn souls in our modern times, such as New Age beliefs, mediumistic practices, “alien” sightings, and pseudo-demonic forms of church worship.</p><p></p><h4>Do not seek spiritual experiences</h4><p></p><p></p><p>If you seek spiritual experiences without a foundation of faith, or a desire to struggle to attain the virtues, such as humility and patience, you are making an idol out of the experience itself, and so God will allow the demons to deceive you in the way that you seek, because the desire for spiritual experiences is not compatible with the desire of God, who tested Christians know will grant experiences on His own timeline, not arbitrarily from the wish of someone in delusion who wants to primarily feel an emotion of ecstasy or grace. Instead, one must put in the required spiritual work to receive only what God knows he needs.</p><p></p><h4>Zen is a religion of experiences</h4><p></p><p></p><p>I fell for the Eastern philosophy trap in my early 30s. My pride loved the notion of reaching existential “enlightenment” through my own works without having to submit my will or ego to a higher power. One of my favorite gurus at that time, Osho, remarked that there is no point of life at all, that you must just “be.” I accepted this notion of nihilism, but now I can see that according to his behavior and actions, there was indeed a point to life: to feed all of his passions by sleeping with female followers in America, amass the biggest collection of Rolls Royces and Rolexes in the world, kowtow with Hollywood celebrities, and rise to the <em>de facto</em> head of a political operation that resulted in one of his followers poisoning the local inhabitants. If you’re wondering how people can fall for such a man, look no further than pride, which blinds you to the truth, and gets you to believe in any lie or ideology which blocks their worship of Lord Jesus Christ.</p><p></p><h4>False spirituality</h4><p></p><p></p><p>The man who accepts Antichrist will believe in capitalism, democracy, <a href="https://www.rooshv.com/worshiping-comfort-is-satanic" target="_blank">comfort</a>, <a href="https://www.rooshv.com/western-medicine-is-dead" target="_blank">Western medicine</a>, and the notion that the point of life is to “enjoy” it in the here and now. When the Antichrist comes, perhaps 50% of the population will immediately declare fealty to him without any need of convincing, and those with a weak faith will eventually fall when the price of discomfort for their disloyalty to Christ becomes too high for their lukewarmness to bear.</p><p></p><h4>Science fiction is a vehicle of the occult</h4><p></p><p></p><p>The only use I can see in science fiction is that its ideas seem to be a source of future inspiration for the regime when it comes to designing and implementing methods of human control. They are trying, in quite the literal sense, to rule over us with advanced AI and robots like shown in the movies Terminator, I Robot, and RoboCop.</p><p></p><h4>Demons are behind UFOs and alien sightings</h4><p></p><p></p><p>Orthodoxy has a credible and rational explanation for paranormal activity, and the definitive sign to me that alien sightings come from a place of evil is that the United States government is using them to distract the population from its horrible crimes through a drip-drop method of propaganda release that is keeping apostate Christians in heightened anticipation for some type of major alien encounter they think will be beneficial to mankind but which will really be used to control them just like all other Satanic schemes.</p><p></p><h4>Navigating the end of an age</h4><p></p><p></p><p>This is why the rapture doctrine is so dangerous. Those who believe in this 19th century innovation think that Christ will take them away <em>before</em> the tribulation, and that they won’t have to <a href="https://www.rooshv.com/you-must-suffer" target="_blank">endure any sufferings</a>. In other words, they will not believe that the evil world leader before them is Antichrist since they are still alive on the earth, yet to be raptured. They are likely to take the Mark of the Beast offered by Antichrist, because in their minds, they shouldn’t be here during his reign.</p><p></p><h4>Fake miracles</h4><p></p><p></p><p>I suspect the reason that God does not grant many spiritual experiences is that the pride of the recipient gets to such a fervor that he comes to believe in his own sainthood and infallibility. Instead, God grants spiritual experiences in a safe manner to those who are humble or in dire need.</p><p></p><h4>Protestant “revival” and speaking in tongues</h4><p></p><p></p><p>Modern Protestantism is easy if you’re declared saved after one or two emotional experiences very early on your walk with Christ. It appeals to those who fail to see the need for spiritual labor. What I don’t understand with those who believe in “once-saved-always-saved” is how they reconcile the completeness and finality of their mission before God with the fact that they are <em>still alive</em>. If you are definitively saved, why are you still here? Why are you not in your resurrected body, which is the final requirement for being saved? How can anyone presuppose God’s final judgment of His creatures, which has yet to come? As an <a href="https://www.rooshv.com/gods-revelation-to-the-human-heart" target="_blank">Orthodox Christian</a>, I’m not sure if I will be saved, but I’m more sure of it today than I was yesterday, and I will approach tomorrow with fear and trembling to endure until the end.</p><p></p><h4>Spiritual gifts are given only to the most faithful</h4><p></p><h4>Seeding the soil for Antichrist</h4><p></p><p></p><p>This book is an excellent wake-up call for lapsed Christians, whether Orthodox or not. There are <em>a lot</em> of demonic traps out there and the sad reality is that most Christians are so oblivious to them that they open demonic doors thinking that it will bring them closer to the god of easy Christianity, who gives spiritual experiences from paltry spiritual labor. And now we are arriving at the end of human history where a system of globalization is ready to welcome Antichrist, even if the human managers of this system don’t know exactly how they’re bringing it about. Whether consciously or not, world leaders will accelerate a mass persecution of Christians who would <em>not</em> accept Antichrist, and this persecution has already begun in germ stage. Who knows, maybe some of us will be alive when the Antichrist comes, but until then, I highly advise you to read <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Orthodoxy-Religion-Future-Seraphim-Rose/dp/188790400X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?dchild=1&keywords=orthodoxy+and+religion+of+the+future&qid=1635289576&sr=8-2&x=0&y=0&linkCode=ll1&tag=rooshlog-20&linkId=e7766f2a2bc692c8e4b6fea45b376094&language=en_US" target="_blank">Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future</a> so you have a fighting chance to say no to the innumerable benefits that Satan will offer you to snatch away your salvation before the final moment.</p><p></p><p><strong>Learn More:</strong> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Orthodoxy-Religion-Future-Seraphim-Rose/dp/188790400X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?dchild=1&keywords=orthodoxy+and+religion+of+the+future&qid=1635289576&sr=8-2&x=0&y=0&linkCode=ll1&tag=rooshlog-20&linkId=e7766f2a2bc692c8e4b6fea45b376094&language=en_US" target="_blank"><em><strong>Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future on Amazon</strong></em></a></p><p><a href="https://www.rooshv.com/orthodoxy-and-the-religion-of-the-future" target="_blank">Permalink</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roosh, post: 1539663, member: 1"] [i]Originally posted on [url="https://www.rooshv.com"]RooshV.com[/url][/i] [IMG]https://www.rooshv.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ufo-america-1024x692.jpg[/IMG] [URL='https://www.amazon.com/Orthodoxy-Religion-Future-Seraphim-Rose/dp/188790400X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?dchild=1&keywords=orthodoxy+and+religion+of+the+future&qid=1635289576&sr=8-2&x=0&y=0&linkCode=ll1&tag=rooshlog-20&linkId=e7766f2a2bc692c8e4b6fea45b376094&language=en_US'][IMG]https://www.rooshv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/book-orthodoxy.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future is one of [URL='https://www.rooshv.com/the-orthodox-survival-course-by-father-seraphim-rose']Father Seraphim Rose’s[/URL] most popular works, apparently moreso in Russia than in the United States, where I read that it is offered for sale in subway stations (in America, good luck finding it in a physical bookstore). The book offers a summary of all false religious phenomena that are helping to condemn souls in our modern times, such as New Age beliefs, mediumistic practices, “alien” sightings, and pseudo-demonic forms of church worship. [HEADING=3]Do not seek spiritual experiences[/HEADING] If you seek spiritual experiences without a foundation of faith, or a desire to struggle to attain the virtues, such as humility and patience, you are making an idol out of the experience itself, and so God will allow the demons to deceive you in the way that you seek, because the desire for spiritual experiences is not compatible with the desire of God, who tested Christians know will grant experiences on His own timeline, not arbitrarily from the wish of someone in delusion who wants to primarily feel an emotion of ecstasy or grace. Instead, one must put in the required spiritual work to receive only what God knows he needs. [HEADING=3]Zen is a religion of experiences[/HEADING] I fell for the Eastern philosophy trap in my early 30s. My pride loved the notion of reaching existential “enlightenment” through my own works without having to submit my will or ego to a higher power. One of my favorite gurus at that time, Osho, remarked that there is no point of life at all, that you must just “be.” I accepted this notion of nihilism, but now I can see that according to his behavior and actions, there was indeed a point to life: to feed all of his passions by sleeping with female followers in America, amass the biggest collection of Rolls Royces and Rolexes in the world, kowtow with Hollywood celebrities, and rise to the [I]de facto[/I] head of a political operation that resulted in one of his followers poisoning the local inhabitants. If you’re wondering how people can fall for such a man, look no further than pride, which blinds you to the truth, and gets you to believe in any lie or ideology which blocks their worship of Lord Jesus Christ. [HEADING=3]False spirituality[/HEADING] The man who accepts Antichrist will believe in capitalism, democracy, [URL='https://www.rooshv.com/worshiping-comfort-is-satanic']comfort[/URL], [URL='https://www.rooshv.com/western-medicine-is-dead']Western medicine[/URL], and the notion that the point of life is to “enjoy” it in the here and now. When the Antichrist comes, perhaps 50% of the population will immediately declare fealty to him without any need of convincing, and those with a weak faith will eventually fall when the price of discomfort for their disloyalty to Christ becomes too high for their lukewarmness to bear. [HEADING=3]Science fiction is a vehicle of the occult[/HEADING] The only use I can see in science fiction is that its ideas seem to be a source of future inspiration for the regime when it comes to designing and implementing methods of human control. They are trying, in quite the literal sense, to rule over us with advanced AI and robots like shown in the movies Terminator, I Robot, and RoboCop. [HEADING=3]Demons are behind UFOs and alien sightings[/HEADING] Orthodoxy has a credible and rational explanation for paranormal activity, and the definitive sign to me that alien sightings come from a place of evil is that the United States government is using them to distract the population from its horrible crimes through a drip-drop method of propaganda release that is keeping apostate Christians in heightened anticipation for some type of major alien encounter they think will be beneficial to mankind but which will really be used to control them just like all other Satanic schemes. [HEADING=3]Navigating the end of an age[/HEADING] This is why the rapture doctrine is so dangerous. Those who believe in this 19th century innovation think that Christ will take them away [I]before[/I] the tribulation, and that they won’t have to [URL='https://www.rooshv.com/you-must-suffer']endure any sufferings[/URL]. In other words, they will not believe that the evil world leader before them is Antichrist since they are still alive on the earth, yet to be raptured. They are likely to take the Mark of the Beast offered by Antichrist, because in their minds, they shouldn’t be here during his reign. [HEADING=3]Fake miracles[/HEADING] I suspect the reason that God does not grant many spiritual experiences is that the pride of the recipient gets to such a fervor that he comes to believe in his own sainthood and infallibility. Instead, God grants spiritual experiences in a safe manner to those who are humble or in dire need. [HEADING=3]Protestant “revival” and speaking in tongues[/HEADING] Modern Protestantism is easy if you’re declared saved after one or two emotional experiences very early on your walk with Christ. It appeals to those who fail to see the need for spiritual labor. What I don’t understand with those who believe in “once-saved-always-saved” is how they reconcile the completeness and finality of their mission before God with the fact that they are [I]still alive[/I]. If you are definitively saved, why are you still here? Why are you not in your resurrected body, which is the final requirement for being saved? How can anyone presuppose God’s final judgment of His creatures, which has yet to come? As an [URL='https://www.rooshv.com/gods-revelation-to-the-human-heart']Orthodox Christian[/URL], I’m not sure if I will be saved, but I’m more sure of it today than I was yesterday, and I will approach tomorrow with fear and trembling to endure until the end. [HEADING=3]Spiritual gifts are given only to the most faithful[/HEADING] [HEADING=3]Seeding the soil for Antichrist[/HEADING] This book is an excellent wake-up call for lapsed Christians, whether Orthodox or not. There are [I]a lot[/I] of demonic traps out there and the sad reality is that most Christians are so oblivious to them that they open demonic doors thinking that it will bring them closer to the god of easy Christianity, who gives spiritual experiences from paltry spiritual labor. And now we are arriving at the end of human history where a system of globalization is ready to welcome Antichrist, even if the human managers of this system don’t know exactly how they’re bringing it about. Whether consciously or not, world leaders will accelerate a mass persecution of Christians who would [I]not[/I] accept Antichrist, and this persecution has already begun in germ stage. Who knows, maybe some of us will be alive when the Antichrist comes, but until then, I highly advise you to read [URL='https://www.amazon.com/Orthodoxy-Religion-Future-Seraphim-Rose/dp/188790400X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?dchild=1&keywords=orthodoxy+and+religion+of+the+future&qid=1635289576&sr=8-2&x=0&y=0&linkCode=ll1&tag=rooshlog-20&linkId=e7766f2a2bc692c8e4b6fea45b376094&language=en_US']Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future[/URL] so you have a fighting chance to say no to the innumerable benefits that Satan will offer you to snatch away your salvation before the final moment. [B]Learn More:[/B] [URL='https://www.amazon.com/Orthodoxy-Religion-Future-Seraphim-Rose/dp/188790400X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?dchild=1&keywords=orthodoxy+and+religion+of+the+future&qid=1635289576&sr=8-2&x=0&y=0&linkCode=ll1&tag=rooshlog-20&linkId=e7766f2a2bc692c8e4b6fea45b376094&language=en_US'][I][B]Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future on Amazon[/B][/I][/URL] [url="https://www.rooshv.com/orthodoxy-and-the-religion-of-the-future"]Permalink[/url] [/QUOTE]
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