For
his unflinching defense of God-created patriarchy and hierarchy, we think Fr
Sergei would feel quite at home in Dixieland:
Archpriest
Sergei Rybakov, associate professor of theology department at Ryazan State
University, chairman of the religious education department of the Ryazan
diocese, answers the question: “Why
does the modern family break up?”
"A
lot depends on how the the hierarchy is setup. Previously, families had a
patriarchal structure, in which a wife traditionally came to her husband each
morning to request a blessing for the day. She also brought the children,
who would receive blessings from their father. He would bless each of them
with his right hand. This is the patriarchal way of the Orthodox family.”
“But
then, due to spiritual impoverishment and the influence of liberal ideas, the
man ceased to be recognized as a patriarch. As a result, a modern woman rarely
fulfills what the apostle has commanded — not
to teach, but to learn from her husband at home (1
Timothy 2:12; 1 Corinthians 14:35). There is no one to learn from now, and
worldly wisdom is not enough. The soul of the woman remains hungry, and thus a
kind of madness begins. She desires to seize power in the family. The child is
often used as an excuse."
"And
thus there is a restructuring of the entire family. The child becomes the head
of the family, who is served by the mother. The child becomes an idol, the
woman becomes his priestess, and the man becomes an economic appendage. As a
result, the entire family structure is destroyed, and the man leaves the family
to find a place where he feels more comfortable. Thus the family falls apart.”
“This
is confirmed by statistics: Where patriarchy is preserved, there are fewer
divorces. The patriarchal family is more stable, and is immune to all sorts of
difficulties. If there are fewer divorces, it means that a greater number of
families acquire an understanding of the correct dispensation of the family,
although it may be done with great difficulty."
"Meanwhile,
where there is a matriarchal approach to raising children, feminism breeds
feminist women who are not ready to become wives and mothers, and feminist men
who are not ready to become responsible husbands and fathers. So until the
pedagogical attitude is changed — through intentional education about the
Orthodox family — the situation will continue to be senseless.”
Let
the Sean Hannity’s, the Frank Gaffney’s, the National Review’s, and so
on continue to vomit out their hate-filth for Orthodox Russia. By doing so, they will expose, for all the
world to see, the anti-Christian nature of the ‘American experiment’, of the
Puritan ‘City on a Hill’.
--
Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England,
South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð,
unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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