What is eastern orthodoxy? is it just baltic catholicism?

Didn't communism killed their church?

Orthodoxy youtube.com/watch?v=Rg60IBnLCyw
Catholicism youtube.com/watch?v=xhM3UMRl830

>gnosticism
Redpill me on that

Retard.

It's the most original i.e. Orthodox version of Christianity

Still had many Byzantine era Roman traditions built in

Catholicism: Pope is Christ's figurehead on Earth
Orthodox: Separate patriarchs, many of them hate one another (recently kirill from muscow vs bartholomew over ukraine). Greek Orthodox uses Greek, others uses """church""" slavonic (lel)

also orthodox are fine with priests marrying, and people divorcing, catholics no.

oh and biggest of all is filioque

Fun fact

Orthodox people are Catholic.

It's called the Orthodox Catholic Church

>Original
>Uses Church slavonic
lol slavs are retards only decent orthos are greeks.

>baltic
Lol wtf
Orthodoxy is the original version of Christianity.
The main difference is that it doesn't deify a pope. No man is infallible in Orthodoxy unlike in Catholicism where the pope is God's representative on Earth.

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Communism and their brainletness is the reason why the Church is so powerful in today's Orthodox countries.
Turns out that when you're trying to force people not to do something it'll make people want to do that even more.

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Wait. Is it really? I mean, there were plenty of heresies and councils before the orthodox church, so to speam, came to be a thing
How do I know they are truly the original version?

>mfw Aum Shinrikyo had a big following in 90s and even until 2016, when it was officially declared as a terorrist organization

youtube.com/watch?v=7cdARbO3eSk

>Communism and their brainletness is the reason why the Church is so powerful in today's Orthodox countries.
pretty much

youtu.be/HZjS4s8yi_g

The seat of the Church (in Constantinople) uses Greek

>How do I know
Read a book I guess?

You first, asshole

>different flavours of a meme religion

>Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch
>new rome
nice

The Turks are trying to get rid of him for good lol

RIP remnant of Byzantine Church

Silence devil worshiper.

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>Turks are trying to get rid of him
I would have assumed Kirill himself would have tried, especially over previous disagreement. Even R*ssian media slanders him.

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How do I convert to orthodox in country full of caths and proddies?

Brazil is a pretty diverse country, isn't there any church within a reasonable distance?
I know a guy from Sao Paulo who converted to Orthodoxy.

Not that I know
>Sao Paulo
Well, Sao Paulo has lots of people, not surprised they got plenty there
I also heard there id the melquita church, a church bound to the catholics but with byzantine rites and rules

Matter is inherently evil
The Old Testament god, the creator of the material world (Demiurge), is either a deluded fool or actually Satan himself
This world of Matter is ruled by the Demiurge's minions, called the Archons
The True God, who lives in the highest Pleroma, is a Lovecraftian-tier being of pure light
Salvation is only possible by being enlightened in the esoteric teachings (think Plato's cave allegory)
Upon death, the souls of the chosen saved (Pneumatics) will escape the oppressive prison of Matter while the Psychics and Hylics (everyone else) will be doomed to an eternal cycle of hellfire and reincarnation
The soul-sparks of the Pneumatics will ascend the celestial realms to rejoin, become one with the True God Above

The details vary extremely heavily depending by school as well. Pretty much it's more a general term a coherent religion.

It's very beautiful :)

Interesting. More interesting is that plenty of heresies followed that idea through all christemdom history (bogomilists and cathars for once)

Don't forget the Paulicians

I never got deeper into the paulicians though
I heard they rejected the OT or some shit though

Precisely, I think it's because they hated Paul of Tarsus and hated Jews for being "puppets of the Demiurge"

lel were paulicians the Jow Forums of christianity?

Dunno, but I've seen some Gnostic larpers on Jow Forums before

>Jow Forums
>larpers
Who would know? I've seen a gnostbro on /his/. Cool guy, sad he gets lots of hate though

I had a dream a few days ago that i became a monk who strongly resembled them despite never seeing those style of robes before

>lol slavs are retards only decent orthos are greeks.
Just for your information, the Church Slavonic is half-natural and half-constructed language designed to translate Gospel into it from Greek with maximum precision.

You know what to do.

lmao I am not going to change the creed off of some weird little dream (I'm assuming they are Orthodox

It's obviously a vision from god and he will smite your fucking ass if you don't follow it.

The queen is an Antichrist. I mean, I mean, an anarchist.

no

Lmao I legit feel bad for catholics.
Just shut it down already this is fucking embarassing.

You are unironically better off adopting Islam which is your future either way

based Gnosticism discussion without new age Crowleyist horseshite

I'm agnostic myself but I sort of identify with the idea of gnosticism because the material world really does seem imperfect to me

I honestly am very curious about gnosticism. Their idea is really exotic to say the least. And actually, it's the kind of thing I have thought over too. The God from OT seems very different from the NT, in OT he even bounds with satan at some point. While in NT he avoids satan at all costs.

We had one of the biggest conversions to orthodoxy in modern history