How Many Here are Orthodox Christians?

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How Many Here are Orthodox?

Poll ended at Tue 25 November 2003 5:55 pm

Option One: Not yet Orthodox, just thinking about it.

1
4%

Option Two: Thinking about it and already trying to live an Orthodox life (keeping fasts, saying prayers, etc.)

3
11%

Option Three: Thinking about it and already a catechumen

3
11%

Option Four: Already been received, though not through baptism

4
14%

Option Five: Already baptized, been so for a year or less

2
7%

Option Six: Already baptized, been so for one to five years.

3
11%

Option Seven: Baptized for more than ten years, less than twenty

3
11%

Option Eight: Baptized, Orthodox for more than twenty years

9
32%
 
Total votes: 28
Moronikos
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Don't know what to choose...

Post by Moronikos »

If Fr. Seraphim Rose could respond to your poll, he could probably only choose item 4 even though he was Orthodox for many years--although not baptized Orthodox.

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Post by OrthodoxyOrDeath »

Not baptized Orthodox?? If by this you mean he was received by economia, then yes. But in no way was he Baptized by the Church while outside the Chruch.

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rebecca
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Post by rebecca »

Orthodox since birth, practicing for 7 1/2 years.

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Post by Seeker »

uniate here.

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Post by Moronikos »

OrthodoxyOrDeath wrote:

Not baptized Orthodox?? If by this you mean he was received by economia, then yes. But in no way was he Baptized by the Church while outside the Chruch.

And like I wrote, he could only choose option 4, right? Options 5-8 have "baptized" as a stipulation, which in your judgement he was not. I guess you would say that Fr. Seraphim was not a baptized Christian?

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Not a judgement, just a category

Post by Matushka Anna »

Dear.... can I call you something OTHER than Moronikos?

YOu wrote:

And like I wrote, he could only choose option 4, right? Options 5-8 have "baptized" as a stipulation, which in your judgement he was not.<

It's not a judgement; it's a category. Some people are scrupulous, and if I only said "Baptised Orthodox for X years," they wouldn't have a place to vote. I could just have said "received." But it's also interesting to note how people came to Orthodoxy, or even if they've come yet or not.

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Post by 尼古拉前执事 »

Well the largest group has been Orthodox for more than 20 years and a full 87% are Orthodox or Catechumens. That is interesting. This forum has always been known for attracting more women and cradle posters by percentage than most online forums. Now if we only knew why.

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