Think about it
>Traditional but without tradlarpers
>Genuinely mystical
>Friend to both RCs and EOs despite historical differences
>Not involved with institutional evil
>Small and comfy like early christianity but having beauty and splendor like the romans
Ethiopian Orthodoxy genuinely has fascinating elements, especially from an anthropology perspective.
totally not idolatry btw
You're right it's not. But some people like Prots don't understand the historic Christian teaching on images that come from the apostles. Prots are heretics silly.
Based on John of Damascus himself arguing in favour of idolatry, the actual orthodox position is that idolatry is allowed now, the same way Christians can eat pork and drink wine, since God apparently took an earthly manifestation
They are pretty cool
When the hebrews bowed before the Ark was it idolatry too?
I’m not oriental. We Europeans have a long tradition of rule of law coupled with our myths, and no need for foreign Abrahamic cults.
Doesn't sound like it you crypto-Semitic dissident
Christtards are literally the ones that are pro-immigrant
Whatever Chaim
>armored crusader knight
>I'm just a farmer
LMAO
How you considered getting a girlfriend instead?
yes but im a loser
Says the moron posting on a thread about something else to begin with.
>Not involved with institutional evil
They prayed for the destruction of Constantinople at the hands of the caliphate and collaborated with the Islamic authorities before playing the victim card and complaining that they were oppressed by them
Muslim caliphs were more Christian than the eye-poking cuckholds historians call Byzantines
Kind eye for eye how "Rome" dragged Alexandrians through the mud after using them to strengthen their faction's position with the council of Ephesus. But guess wolves get eaten by other wolves.
Their christology and trinitarian theology is a mess though.
Severus of Antioch said duality was a disolver of unity when he said Christ had one nature, along with speaking against the tomb of St Leo and others. He also said nature is particular is to the hypostasis, which kinda messes up the trinity in his attempt to use Aristotle. This eventually lead to tritheism in the non-chalcedonian party with guys like John Philoponus.
Discorius also beat up St Flavian to death for, in his words, "speaking of two natures after the union" even though he was St Leo knew and trusted him, condeming Ibas, Theodoret, John 1 etc even though they either reconciled with St Cyril or the larger and clearly spoke of the person of Christ, along with adhering to the strict myaphites formula despite the fact that St Cyril made concessions and agreed with dyophisitism since his concern was to emphasise the one person of Christ.
>People who were into harems, incest and 9 years old whose prophet gets debunked by Galatians 1:8 are more christian
>debunked by Galatians 1:8
If you read Galatians, and still believe Paul of Tarsus, you are hopeless
>When the hebrews bowed before the Ark was it idolatry too?
The ark had figurines of angels at its sides according to the Bible, but the ark itself wasn't an image of a prophet or a saint. The ark was like the temple, you pray towards it.
Using John of Damascus' logic, we can concede praying to images of God, but why the saints? why Mary?
What can Mary do for you, when you're supposed to rely on the One True God through Jesus?
James 5:16
That's referring to Christians on earth anon.
No, that's referring to Christians
Anon if they are in God's kingdom the Last Judgement and the resurrection already occured and it doesn't make sense for them to pray to retroactively change the fate of people unless you are saying that the Last Judgement isn't final and you can pray people out of hell.
What are you even talking about? The saints in heaven pray for us.
You prostate and kneel in respect and reverence to someone, it's not something people do nowadays but it was commom in the olden days.
>The saints in heaven pray for us.
>in heaven
Do you understand what that means biblically anon
I don't really care about your particular interpretation of the bible
Have you read the Bible
Do I prostrate and kneel in front of my friend whom I want him to pray for me?
>claim to be the most based Christian
>deny Paul
go be a JW somewhere else
Most 80 iq Muslim subhumans were Oriental Orthodox before they apostatized and that's enough to convince me that it's false.
Also their collaboration with Muslim governments is an institutional evil.
Well, their options were:
>convert
>get killed/treated as subhuman
I go to Ecumenical Patriarchate church and all other larper converts are just regular people with families
I don't know what you guys are on about all you won't hear any Jay Dyer debates discussed on coffee hour and hohol grannies hugged me more than anyone in my family
My ninja, there are no oriental churches within 500 miles of my house.
We don't proselytize.
We don't accept converts.
We're all ethnoreligious.
Whether it's "the way" or not is your own interpretation, but you're not gonna be welcomed there. I promise you that.
Convert to Mormon church or be a polytheist.