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To the great shame of the Orthodox Church, the traditional languages of Orthodox Christian liturgical worship (Koine Greek, Church Slavonic, Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian, Georgian) rank nowhere near the top of these lists. Yet, those languages of the Orthodox Church from Eastern Europe and the Balkans are often the languages of the Orthodox Church in extraterritorial lands outside traditional patriarchal jurisdictions where Orthodox Christians have expatriated instead of exclusively the native languages of those lands. No wonder then that Orthodox Christians comprise such a tiny percentage of the population in those lands to which they have expatriated, and have proceeded to shirk any missionary responsibility there, preferring instead to insularly serve themselves instead of others in spiritual need. | To the great shame of the Orthodox Church, the traditional languages of Orthodox Christian liturgical worship (Koine Greek, Church Slavonic, Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian, Georgian) rank nowhere near the top of these lists. Yet, those languages of the Orthodox Church from Eastern Europe and the Balkans are often the languages of the Orthodox Church in extraterritorial lands outside traditional patriarchal jurisdictions where Orthodox Christians have expatriated instead of exclusively the native languages of those lands. No wonder then that Orthodox Christians comprise such a tiny percentage of the population in those lands to which they have expatriated, and have proceeded to shirk any missionary responsibility there, preferring instead to insularly serve themselves instead of others in spiritual need. | ||
==Comparison: Orthodox Christianity and Modernity== | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto;" | |||
! scope="col" style="width: 50%" | Orthodoxy | |||
! scope="col" style="width: 50%" | Modernity | |||
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| style="width: 50%"| God-centered || style="width: 50%"| Man-centered | |||
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| Spiritual-Material — Theanthropos (God-man comm-union) || Materialistic — Capitalist and Communist | |||
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| Dispassionate (apatheia) for union with God || Sensual (passionate) for pleasure in material abundance, wealth, power | |||
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| Humble — repententance, confession || Proud — self-esteem, self-justification | |||
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| Unmercenary — serves neighbor (others) || Mercenary — self-serving | |||
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| Corporeal — Humanity as Body of Christ, Church as Family of Man || Individualistic — provide Corporatism a mobile labor force, increase Consumerism | |||
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| Theosis — comm-union with God, relation of Humanity (and all Creation through Humanity) to God || Sin — separation from God, proliferation of fallen lack of comm-union with Divinity | |||
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| God is source of everything || Self-centered; selfish exploitation of Creation for self-fulfillment | |||
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| Reliance on infallible Divinity || Reliance on fallible human science and technology | |||
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| '''''Divine attributes''''':<br />1) Omnibenevolent (all good)<br />2) Omnipotent (all powerful)<br />3) Omnipresent (all present)<br />4) Omniscient (all knowing)<br />5) Oneness, interconnectivity of everything with God || '''''Human technological characteristics''''':<br />1) Proliferation of 'goods' for convenience and luxury<br />2) Advanced weaponry, atomic bomb<br />3) High speed transportation and communication<br />4) High speed internet (proliferation of 'information')<br />5) Internet of Things | |||
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| Divinization by God || Self-seeking to be god without God; usurpation of the Divine by man | |||
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| Temple for worship of God || Tower of Babel (industrial urbanization) striving to reach heaven (achieve Divinity) by self alone | |||
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| Worship of the One, True, Living God || Idolization of fallen, selfish humanity | |||
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| Loves and serves God who is spirit and truth || Loves and serves materialistic Mammon (lie of the Father of Lies) | |||
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| Remembrance of God, Remembrance of Death || God denying, Death defying | |||
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| Resurrection || Anti-aging, Transhumanism | |||
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| Truth about God, Man and the World || Living the Lie, Illusion-Delusion | |||
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| Illumination, Vision of God who is Light, Life and Love || Rationalistic Enlightment, spiritual blindness, temporal life of darkness | |||
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==Historic Language Prominence== | ==Historic Language Prominence== | ||