{"id":1091,"date":"2016-01-14T06:17:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T06:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=6834"},"modified":"2016-01-14T11:03:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T11:03:50","slug":"a-thought-on-ecumenism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=1091","title":{"rendered":"A Thought on Ecumenism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what Ecumenism really is and what is its true nature?<\/p>\n<p>Let us try to answer the question this way:<\/p>\n<p>Communism means serving the Common Good. Likewise, a Spiritual form of Communism means serving the Common God, since the idea of &#8220;Good&#8221; and &#8220;Goodness&#8221; in the material world is perceived by many as &#8220;God&#8221; in the spiritual sense.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Beast of the Apocalypse is returning, now in a spiritualized form. If the purpose of Communism was to enslave Man, the purpose of Ecumenism is to enslave his Soul. Ecumenism is thus the spiritual form of Communism.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s false spiritual awakening is all based on finding common ground, towards forming a common front for achieving the common goal of defeating a common enemy &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Those opposing Ecumenism today are like those that opposed Communism yesterday. It is the same battle, continued at a higher level &#8211; the battle for Man&#8217;s soul. This is the reason why most of today&#8217;s Orthodox authorities are reluctant to glorify the holy martirs confessors against communism (at least in Romania), as this will make today&#8217;s confessors efforts look legitimate and expose themselves for the truth they are trying to cover. Those countries that did glorify their martirs stand a better chance of coming back to their senses than those that did not &#8211; let us pray that this may indeed happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what Ecumenism really is and what is its true nature? Let us try to answer the question this way: Communism means serving the Common Good. Likewise, a Spiritual form of Communism means serving the Common God, since the idea of &#8220;Good&#8221; and &#8220;Goodness&#8221; in the material world is perceived by many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}