Many
Evangelical Protestants in the United States believe that the States of the
union have always been Christian and that the current apostasy is an
aberration. It would more truthful to
say that the US have been living in a delusional dream world for many
years. Their religious life resembles the story of a demoniac
related by an Orthodox priest named Fr. Evgeny:
<<<Fr. Evgeny started
asking the man about his life. As it turns out, he had searched long and
stubbornly for himself in the spiritual sense. But instead of going to church
he had gone, now to various old ladies, now to sorcerers, now to various
“spiritual” movements—of which there were many in his town. You could find
any occult movement according to taste.
Finally he chose the least
radical one, which was very popular in the region, a kind of Billy Graham. But
not exactly him.
“In general, it’s of course
amazing how ordinary, practical rural Ukrainians were so “taken” by all sorts
of American religious figures,” Fr. Evgeny said to me, “but what happened,
happened…”
Their talks were constantly
being broadcast on Ukrainian television, with a return address: “Join us, and
we’ll send you a Bible.”
“The man watched a program,
wrote a letter, received a Bible, and started studying it,” Fr. Evgeny went on.
“With time he drew his acquaintances, friends, and family into this process,
and a Bible study group formed around him. In the end, these people said to
him, “Listen! You know the Bible better than all of us, you cite it and sort it
all out. Why not become our pastor?” So they chose him as their pastor.”
This man started leading their
“services.” And the further it went, the more amazed everyone was at how well
he understood God’s word, how many citations he had in his head, how much he
knew and how well he explained it all…
“That’s how they praised him:
‘You’re great! What a smart guy!’ until this problem arose,” said Fr. Evgeny.
That day the man was at home,
studying the Bible as usual. Then suddenly Christ appeared to him, in radiant
light, shining garments, etc., just like in the Lives of the Saints.
“You are one of my best
disciples!” a voice sounded. “You have learned the word of God better than
anyone I know. But that’s not enough. In order to have the fullness, you need
to unite with me. Do you agree to have me enter into you?”
“I agree,” the man joyfully
replied. “Of course I agree!”
After these words it was as if
he were struck by lightning. His body shook, the picture of the good-natured,
shining Christ shattered before his eyes, and he heard terrifying laughter:
“Ha-ha-ha, I’m satan!”
And immediately the two
invisible devils appeared on his shoulders and started talking with each other.
Batiushka didn’t make any of
this up. This is what the man told him.
His sister and mother said that
he began to smash the furniture in the room and shatter the windows. They had
to call the ambulance and the police. That is, the militia—that’s what they
were still called then.
They put him into a
straitjacket, injected him with tranquilizers, and treated them however they
could. But in the end they couldn’t do anything with the “comrades” who had
appeared on the man’s shoulders, and so they sent him to church.
“But the whole problem is that
they came to me for a ‘pill’,” Fr. Evgeny told me. “At the hospital they told
them what to do, and they obeyed. ‘Batiushka, do something, quickly!’ But when
I started telling them about repentance, about entering into the life of the
Church, they waved me aside. ‘No-no-no, not that. He knows the Bible well
enough as it is. He himself is a pastor! We just need these two to leave his
shoulders and so that he would get physically better. That’s all!’ But that
this was prelest [spiritual
delusion] (for that is what it was), they simply didn’t want to know. The devil
had deluded him, telling him about his supposed spiritual gifts. And in fact,
he had almost told him the truth—that he needs to unite with Christ. But the
lie was that this was how to do it. This is done in the Church, in the
Sacraments. There is no salvation outside the Church! And the gates of hell
will not prevail over it! But this man had started thinking of himself as a
“church”. He himself studied, himself wrote this or that, and himself
distributed his books. He had organized a sect and become its head. And then
‘christ’ tells him, ‘You’re the best. You’re super!’ And so he entered into
him. Only it wasn’t Christ, but the evil one. And he even put two demons on his
shoulders. It was these demons that this man and his family wanted to rid
themselves. But not of his ‘chosenness’—no! Thus they left and never returned.
Well, it was just as it’s written by the holy fathers… I had read it and
doubted, but here I saw it with my own eyes. The Lord showed me…”>>>
So many
things from this story parallel the general history of religion in the US: the free practice of all kinds of religions,
including the occult; the self-interpretation of the Bible; the forming of a
new ‘church’. Very many people in every
State pride themselves on such behavior, thinking that the ‘free exercise of
religion’ is a great virtue and will lead to good things for society. But the story of Fr. Evgeny proves just the
opposite is true: This kind of
Christianity cut off from the true Tradition found in the Orthodox Church – the
Ecumenical Councils, the teachings of Holy Fathers and Mothers, the lives of
the Saints, the hymns, etc. – turns one into a dupe of the devil. This is where the US are now: The devil has appeared to them in the guise
of Christ saying, ‘You are a mighty federation; but if you unite with me, I
will make you exceptional and indispensable.’
The ‘church’ in the US accepted the devil as Christ and has gone mad
from the subsequent possession by evil spirits.
They have gone the whole world over smashing to pieces one country after
another. They could be healed, but they
fail to renounce their ‘chosenness’.
And yet, while
the States have fomented many revolutions abroad, they have not experienced the
full depths of that terror for themselves.
They have had brief encounters with it, as in the War for Independence
from the British Empire and in the War of Northern Aggression (often falsely
called the Civil War), but they have refrained from full initiation into that
evil world. But they are getting ever
closer to doing so. Some
words of St. Theophan the Recluse (+1894) show just how close:
. . .
The rest is
here:
https://www.geopolitika.ru/en/article/will-america-complete-its-revolution
And also
here:
https://katehon.com/en/article/will-america-complete-its-revolution
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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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