Why are so many young disillusioned men converting to Orthodoxy instead of Catholicism or Protestantism?

All religion is a form of hypnotism of the masses.
Catholicism is especially evil.

Atheists still try this argument?

>hypnotism of the masses
literally nothing wrong with this
stupid people need to be herded

>I don't have anything against orthodox just alot of the people that talk about it on the internet are larpers that aren't even sincere believers.
You have literally no way of knowing one way or the other. By internet, it sounds like you mean this one board. I mean you just blamed pol and Russia, two great things, based entirely on your experiences from /pol/. You're the last one that needs to be talking right now. The topic even covers that Christians tired of the Christianity lite are converting back. It used to be prot services were all traditional and powerful, but I think it started pandering and it started becoming uninspired. That's why I don't go to prot congregations anymore really. That's why most of my friends raised prot don't. And yeah obviously catholics have their issues,especially with the cuck lefty pope fucking his own church and probably kids too. Orthodox always had legitimacy. Catholics were actually an offshoot of Orthodoxy.
>1) "waagh I don't like everything that isn't l'gomrade approved!"
>2)It is the oldest. Technically, prots stem from Catholics and Catholics stem from Orthodoxy when the Patriarch of Rome split from the Orthodox church and became the Pope. Where do the mysteries come from? Let's find out:
orthodoxwiki.org/Holy_Mysteries
>3)Is that a bad thing either way? The community is the greatest aspect of the church. You'd know what that feels like if you ever dusted the cheetos residue from your mits and went outside instead of shitposting,playing videogames, and jacking off to porn bunnies who would be disgusted by you irl.

For some reason.
>"all forms of government,religion, and institutions are about power and have nothing to do with eternal truth,values, or transcendence. My own particular and narrow leftist ideology does that. But it's never been tried so..."

This is just arrogant self-aggrandizing.

While true, the full picture is much more worrying; some, if not most, people, smart and stupid alike, have zero understanding of morality and need the transcendental certitude religion provides.

>some, if not most, people, smart and stupid alike, have zero understanding of morality
What kind of fucked up neighborhood do you come from?

A good even tempered bourgeois one with very little crime. And it’s not because the people who live there have truly thought about the differences between right and wrong and just vote socialist to make themselves feel good.

>bourgeois
>just vote socialist to make themselves feel good.
What makes you go on?

Life’s good my dude.

Because they believe it is the original Church, not realizing they lost the claim to Orthodoxy when they persecuted Nestorius for refusing to worship pictures of Mary.

Not with you around. I just don't see why you stay on a board that doesn't want you or your negative opinions. I mean negative as in net negative. As in your passively fucking the rest of us and happy about it.

They are? Haven't heard of this

Ha! Someone’s not a stoic eh.
This is a great board; I love the discussions, mostly I lurk.

Why’s this such a touchy subject for you?

>Someone’s not a stoic eh.
Stop citing leftie rhetoric you mong.

Forgot to add don't pretend you're a stoic because you read a couple verses from Meditations. You're a new ager.

Because they haven't heard of it. They're converting, not out of some deep seated theological conviction, but because they want to be rebellious little shits. If you live in America or Western Europe, Eastern Orthodoxy is this exotic brand of Christianity you have no personal experience with.

Who wouldn't want to wear robes such as these?

>You have literally no way of knowing one way or the other
Yeah you sort of do when someone makes a thread saying "I just converted to Orthodoxy, I can BTFO all other religions, ama" which goes directly against instructions for new converts meaning they're either 1) lying, or 2) larping about something they know jack shit about.

Not even left, not even a new ager

It's the religion with less tolerance, SCIENCE!, woman right and other traces of modern zeirgeist

>Not even left
>posts political compass meme

Catholicism is as good as orthodoxy. Protestantism is shit

actually this

>implying political compass memes are somehow left

>"I just converted to Orthodoxy, I can BTFO all other religions, ama" which goes directly against instructions for new converts
So whenever you see a person asking about whether they should go or not or bringing up their experience, you're mind immediately jumps to bragging? That's an odd connection to make. Unless you're telling us that Orthobros brag about it in the history of ever, which they honestly should.
>posts worse possible section of the polcomp to be on
Can't tell if troll now

One side is called "authoritarian" the other "libertarian". Yes, there is some buzzword biasing going on there. I was wrong, you're not a troll. You just have an IQ issue.

>inb4 you're
your*

Because it's Catholicism minus the whole pope and mary spiel, that's why I prefer it. plus the doctrine and belief makes more sense of the bible and flattens out inconsistencies some might have like the concept of hell and other beliefs. I'm not the whole russophile or even "hurrr all other christianity sects are dumb" tier, since i'm in the army there's not a whole lot of orthodox, but if there's a lutheran or catholic service I'll go in

have patience user, not everyone has the ability to know that posts with different write, meaning and ideal are probably from more than one person

>So whenever you see a person asking about whether they should go or not or bringing up their experience, you're mind immediately jumps to bragging?
No, I've seen that thread posted, almost verbatim, on other boards, possibly by the same cats.

IJS it's pretty easy to spot the people baiting for replies and giving Orthodoxy a bad rap by acting like belligerent fuckwits, and the extent of their actual Orthodoxy is usually fairly clear from their conduct.

Not trolling; how’s that the worst? Because it’s not part of the dumb tribal political dichotomy?

>I'm not king tier
ftfy
>from more than one person
Fuck it, point is made and ego doesn't matter here.
>No, I've seen that thread posted
Post it from the archives. I need to see the evidence.

Just shift the terminology from ‘authoritarian’ to “prescriptive rule of law”
And ‘libertarian’ to “restrictive rule of law”

>Fuck it, point is made and ego doesn't matter here.
It's hard to be a hippocratic.

>dumb tribal

>still no evidence of any orthobro ever saying that
Another episode of atheists lying, what a surprise.

how to turn /pol/ off orthodoxy

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how to turn /pol/ really into orthodoxy so they stop being /pol/

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that one's a lost cause

>What happens in /pol/ = whole society

back to /pol/

WE

Everyone I know is distancing themselves from religion no idea what you’re talking about unless you’re a slav

let's be fair, orthodox LARPers don't get to WE at actual orthodox clergy from a valid tradition

Where have you been? Half of pol is already doing this meme.Fuck lefties are always ten years behind in memes it's fucking sad.
Just the opposite where I'm from. That was true in the 90's and before. Honestly it's a huge thing right now in Orthodoxy, tons of info on it. They know they're raking in protties. Atheists are just further degenerating into whatever the latest craze is. Related, what's your gender pronoun?

Sarcastic gifs are the peak of intellectual discourse

I'm not a Christcuck m8, I just like laughing at nogs.

>presenting a hardline view of who is properly representing Orthodoxy the way it should be
Well done user. You do the Patriarchs and all fellow servants proud.
>he thinks sarcasm was conveyed
I think smug repudiation was what you were looking for.

i don't get it. Black people aren't allowed to be orthodox or something?

Souls are souls user.We all belong to the creator.

"/pol/ is racist" is a meme

You can be non religious and not be an atheist. Some people just don’t think about any of that and live there lives anyway. I don’t even know any atheists, just people that don’t care for religion. Where you from, UK? What the fuck is a prottie?

"/pol/ is not racist" is a meme. The debate was settled long ago, but to what extent and in what form is what is debated.
>You can be non religious and not be an atheist.
Wow that was revolutionary user. Do you have a degree or som- okay I'll stop being rude. No I'm not a Brit. Prot is short for protestant.

>smug repudiation
That is a much better phrase

Orthodoxy is ethnoreligious. You can't convert to it

Interesting I don’t even know any Americans that follow orthodoxy except the Armenians that show up out of nowhere to have a party in the summer. Also, why do you assume I’m a lefty pc fuckface? Because I don’t know any religious people?

Orthodoxy is literally universal, there are orthodox churchs in angola, brazil, us, russia, china, india,...

Thanks mate. I find being an ass is coming easier with each passing day,sadly. That was a genuine thanks though, because your post proved you have a soul unlike half the mongs here.
>Orthodoxy is ethnoreligious. You can't convert to it
Bait? I'll answer this in case anyone takes you seriously: the country of the tradition is cultural only. Greeks, Byzantines, etc each had a tradition stemming from localization caused before mass communication and for the tendencies of each patriarchate.

>Also, why do you assume I’m a lefty pc fuckface? Because I don’t know any religious people?
Because you aren't one, and it doesn't seem like you even have an anchoring philosophy. You seem like you have weak willpower. Just a complete assumption from a complete stranger, that's up for you to decide for yourself. No sense in trying to win me over.

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>They're converting FROM protestantism mostly.
This
>catholicism GOT shitty
Fixed it for ya bro. Catolicysm was awsome untill it got cucked by marxists & inside traitors.

I’m a confirmed catholic and have read the Bible a few times but stopped following when I grew up and read about all the pedophilia and corruption in the church, and as I dug more just found all religions to be equally corrupt. My philosophy is to be a nice person and help others whenever I can, which seems to be a part of every religion. It’s working well

closet atheist... and not all religions are about being nice to everyone, most of them is about being nice to believers only.

>and not all religions are about being nice to everyone, most of them is about being nice to believers only.
Which is a God damned shame because I'm getting tired of all this turn the other cheek bullshit. What happened to "Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force"? That was gold. Instead we lose 2/3rds of our lands to muzzies and have a couple crusades to show for it. They ended up sieging Vienna afterwards so it's not like we had enough of them. The inquisition put down the muzzies at the Reconquista though, so that makes me happy. Seriously we need to go back to inquisitions and I wouldn't mind more God vaporizing entire degenerate towns. Not that I'm praying for it though.
>I’m a confirmed catholic and have read the Bible a few times but stopped following when I grew up and read about all the pedophilia and corruption in the church, and as I dug more just found all religions to be equally corrupt
Yeah it's hard to watch. Those people should be given medieval style justice. Things are too soft for them. Making conditions too easy. Breeding heresy in the ranks, and absolute degeneracy. But what can we do partner?
>My philosophy is to be a nice person and help others whenever I can
Wow what a sweetie. I don't know what to tell you until you finally get shit on and realize not everyone shares your belief. It works in a Christian framework, and I'll hand it to the Buddhists for being civilized.

You really have a fedora hat knowledge of Christianity history

>My philosophy is to be a nice person and help others whenever I can, which seems to be a part of every religion.
Do you know anything about any religion, even the Catholicism you "were" part?

>You really have a fedora hat knowledge of Christianity history
Correct it. This is a history board. I mean, it sounds like to me you're an atheist butthurt about being called a fedora and you're trying to project insecurities and a lack of acceptance from the only community you know, but that's just my guess. No need to prove anything to me.

>Do you know anything about any religion, even the Catholicism you "were" part?
The same Catholicism that lost it's land, fought defensive wars(but not enough to secure themselves even), and ended up donating countless amounts of wealth to charity and performing good works for a millennia? Not him, but yeah I've heard of it.

I can prove anything to a fedora hat

You really don't know anything about catholicism or any other religion do you?

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*can't

>"hah you know nothing,now sit back as I don't add anything meaningful to the conversation"-the post

QUALITY!

Nope I believe in a higher power I’m just not sure what it is. No way the universe just showed up one day.
I’ve been shit on more times than I can count brother, the world is a cruel, cruel bitch. Thats no reason to be an asshole though.

>Thats no reason to be an asshole though.
No, but understanding there are reasons to be an asshole is being mature about it. Good post though overall

Self reply isn't good

Wut

Yeah, nice back and forth I rarely have on this website. Also I don’t think you’re a fedora guy, that was a different user

>Yeah, nice back and forth I rarely have on this website
It is. Maybe that's what this guy found suspicious:It's refreshing though. Thanks mate. Yeah I don't think I'm him. I mean, I really don't want to be lol

Are you gonna add anything to back your claims or are you just gonna ask dumb fucking questions?

all the Deus Vult idiots are Veeky Forums rejects who think real life has WH40K factions

and remember, religios people always generalize

Orthodoxy is the true Christian faith.
Catholics are misguided, (((protestants))) aren't even christian.

Orthodoxy isn't as modernized so it allows for better LARP/MUH CULTURE grandstanding.

It allow something for people who don't look for more of the same diversity

>Joining a religion because it's different
Never gonna make it.

Haha you’re not. Cheers man

>modernizing something that's supposed to be unchanging

implying that something don't being modernized isn't good by itself

.....well fuck, you got me there user