priest_Steven wrote:Me: What a shameless bunch of uninformed falsehood you churn out in an attempt to change the subject. Herein lies te root of your problem.
I can admit a mistake. But you can't, sir.
You must not have been watching too closely Fr. Deacon because it was + Agafangel HIMSELF almost two years ago who ordained me! Our St. Pete Church needed a deacon and they asked me to take upon this responsibility.
Apologies. So exactly how long were you with him after your ordination by his hand?
Me: I am not aware of any other moderator that Seraphim. It is his list.
Seraphim mentioned it himself on Paradosis.
Me: I don't seek to moderate you but when you move forward with shamelessly false information about my ordination this will not stand.
NOW who's diverting, sir? You have been demanding of me to put up your, Fr Ambrose's, and Fr Aidan's worthless slanders on NFTU. I am not sure how clear I have to be. Unless I am violating a guideline here, you have no power to determine what I say. You can "seek" to moderate me all you want. On Paradosis, the quiet hands behind the scene would listen. I can't say the same here.
Me: I am in complete "control" over my posts as long as I follow the rules here. As it should be. You are the one who seems quite worked up, insulting my clerical status. If my disgust at the way NFTU BLATANTLY covers up TOC news at the request of their heirarchs (you just admitted to this)
I didn't admit to that at all. I admitted reporting, but discussing potentially controversial issues with those involved. It's sort of how Interfax-Religion works with the Kremlin. Or how the Moscow Patriarchate site works with the Kremlin.
Me: Frankly, you build many of false assumptions based on such incorrect observations. This shows up on NFTU and you now parade your ignorance here for all to see.
Surely I mislabelled you. You were not an ambitious convert from traditional Orthodoxy. You were a traitor to it. My apologies.
Me: It should make sense to you. Your own Metropolitan petitioned the MP and long list of other so-called "world orthodox" Churches yet you commemorate him as your Master. Behold your own contradiction. You are just full of inconsistencies and contradictions. According to your working ecclesiastical practice it is perfectly fine to have as your master one who thinks otherwise about where the Church is.
With all due respect, now you are speaking from a position of massive ignorance. Not only have I written about the "petitions" (which were not simple petitions) and put it in the Milan Synod's histories, most of the versions of history given by Fr Ambrose and Fr Aidan are only superficially correct and in some places flatly wrong. I have, many times, openly stated that I considered that to be a mistake on our part. Many, many times.
That hasn't stopped you and your ilk from pretending that we are hiding from the facts of the past. We are not your church, disguising historical positions, et cetera, to justify going into communion with men with blood on their hands. We've been open, and that's enough to let it go. Your insistence to talk about 8-year old failed discussions indicates more than a desire for historical clarification.
You're an undisguised partisan who defended the ecumenical positions of Anthony of Geneva and others, switching back and forth from "the historical position of ROCOR" to your own so you can cook up your own Sergianist, ecumenist stew.
Forgive me if I pass on a bowl.
P.S. In case you missed it-- I have noted I was in error concerning who ordained you. I made a mistake. Metropolitans can also make mistakes. Both the letter that started this discussion and your propaganda for enemies of the Church are proof.