None of these bozos are going to actually do the fasts- which are traditionally essentially vegan, no meat (other than invertebrates), no eggs, dairy and only sometimes you get seed/olive oils.
I’m actually the highest level of orthodox, vegan 24/7 💅 meanwhile these guys are just treat hogs chasing the latest fad.
You’d be surprised how much meat one can eat while observing the fasting discipline.
In Greece, for example, some stores explicitly label shrimp, octopus, squid, etc. as “fasting” foods.
They’re also not going to follow the parts of Orthodoxy that say to be kind to other people and to mind your own salvation first. Orthodoxy is not like right wing Evangelicalism and it saddens me to see people like this taking over the church.
I’ve got a friend who became Orthodox a few years before Russia even invaded Crimea in 2014, he does the fasts. They are hardcore. He’s a good guy and to see how politicized Orthodoxy has become the past decade or so makes me sad, he just believes it’s the correct church, as opposed to Catholicism or Protestants. I can’t say I agree with him but at least some of those Orthodox people are cool. Not all though, I’ve met some who were real tools, and any flavor of Christianity leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
On the certain road down to incel-ism.
Actual title as I see it on the article:
Young US men are joining Russian churches promising ‘absurd levels of manliness’
Some notable initial content:
Skinny jeans, crossing your legs, using an iron, shaping your eyebrows, and even eating soup are among the things he derides as too feminine.
There are other videos of Father Moses McPherson - a powerfully-built father of five - weightlifting to the sound of heavy metal.
He was raised a Protestant and once worked as a roofer, but now serves as a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) in Georgetown, Texas, an offshoot of the mother church in Moscow.
The disservice this manly man is doing to society is regrettable, because invariably, women are going to get hurt as a result of this traditionalist backwards thinking.
Heavy metal dudes are usually really nice. I bet most of them wouldn’t approve of this guys bigotry.
Fellas, is it gay to eat soup?
Depends a lot on what you stir it with and/or if you close your eyes when you slurp.
Did your partner make it for you?
Depends on how wet it is.
Real men only eat moist soup.
Well they’ll do it in secret, but if you tell the guys about it, they’ll never do it again.
It sure is. Eat this hot dog if you want to prove your manliness!
When I read the bit about girls being taught to prioritize marriage over careers, I grimaced. Ladies, bless yourselves with your own savings and checking, but especially savings.
After you are baptized do you get enrolled in the army and send to the frontline in Ukraine?
Skinny jeans, crossing your legs, using an iron, shaping your eyebrows, and even eating soup are among the things he derides as too feminine.
DUDE!
If your super-manly-manliness is fucking threatened by… eating soup… you’re not manly at all, you’re just fucking pathetic, weak-sauce and insecure.
It’s like trying to be “cool” by telling people how cool you are, you defacto are not.My grandad ate soup every fucking meal after he came back from slapping nazis halfway accross the world, running uphill into fucking machine guns and he was more manlier than these shit-stain-producing-troglodytes.
Lmfao soup…? Like, a roasted butternut squash and garlic soup, mounted with locally sourced fermented butter and a dash of sherry? Fucking hearty as shit and delicious? That’s unacceptable? I will fucking fight you, you wilted fucking parsnip.
It’s all about the fragile man feeling like people will think they are less of a man for arbitrary reasons.
The real question should be, “how can I gain more control over my life?”
… but that requires actual work. It’s easier to just not eat soup and to wear baggy pants.
Maybe not winning a war since your grandad kicked ass WWII, even though trillions of dollars were spent, thousands of US lives lost and millions mamed physically and mentally, has hurt their fragile egos.
I believe this shift to fundamentalist religious ideology in the US is overcompensation for what they saw in the Middle East where those folks stuck to and depended on their culture and beliefs to survive and when the soldiers returned they just saw fat fucking, lazy relatives complaining about everything.
Who won both Iraq wars?
Haliburton
And Iran. Who lost? American people.
The military industrial complex and their wallets
Ya wtf is wrong with soup. I make some bomb ass bacon and potato chowder. I have a fajita steak soup that will light your asshole on fire. And it’s fucking blasphemous downright unamerican to hate chili.
As a Nebraskan chili and cinnamon rolls are a staple of our winter diet.
I take more pride in preparing soup than i do grilling. Grilling an idiot can do. Soup takes skill
Is chili really soup or is it stew. I’d say that the best chilis are stew not soup. A technicality perhaps.
Can you share your recipe?? I love chowder and I can’t say that I’ve ever had fajita steak soup — sounds amazing!
Not at home this weekend. Can’t remember amounts but AI might be able to help you. Crockpot 8 hours on low. Chicken broth, onion, potatoes, bacon, ham if you want it, add cream cheese 30 minutes before it’s done
Crockpot Thin slices steak chopped, beef broth, beef bouillon cube, tomato paste, corn, black beans, onions, finely chopped green and red pepper, jalapeno, packet of fajita seasoning, chili powder, and cayenne pepper to your liking this is what you will want to be careful with. . Edit and diced tomatoes
Ive crossed my legs since third grade, fuck me for being comfortable
Ya know Im quite traditionally masculine by my kins standards and frankly speaking I find these “I’m super masculine take me seriously” types to be rather amusing if not pathetic. Mind you my kin and I come from a cousin stock of Old John Brown meaning that traditional masculine activities consists of scalping slavers, burning Mormons alive, and making Southern Trash know their place.
How modernity has stripped many of us of our traditions, I must thank these weaklings for volunteering to help bring my ancestors traditions back. After all it won’t be the same, but these pissants will make fine targets regardless since they are close enough.
I am a fat, balding, overweight IT guy, I enjoy photography, driving to find new places, the occasional cooking and learning about modern history.
I live alone, I deal with cleaning, washing, cooking and paying the bills, I have my debt in check and can save money every month.
I am far more manly than any “alpha” male influencer.
Old John Brown
This guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)
Yep, my ancestors even sold to him a couple times. Though we were more bound to the frontier selling to various first nations groups we were friendly with
Won’t be long before they start their own American Dreams Party, as MAGA would not be enough.
is this Russia’s new ploy to get US spies?
Sounds like how to make men weaker. Wow. This is sad. Just a list of unnecessary things to be a snowflake about.
Note: to flush ouf these proud boys is to offer soup and watch them melt into a puddle of pathetic loserishness
All religions are only about control. This one is no different, just that the control likely comes from somewhere in Russia, but it’s control nonetheless
It’s okay, there is no god, it’s okay.
when will they become jihadis
Not believing in stuff on insufficient evidence is pretty damn masculine.
Nothing less masculine than getting on your knees and begging to a fictional daddy.
idunno chief, is he a Bara Daddy?
How do you say: “I KICK ASS FOR THE LORRD!” in Russian?
Я надираю задницы ради Господа
I blame reddit for removing atheism from the front page a 12 years ago
I wonder what this guy has on his criminal record.
This is a very valid question.
