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Orthodox Christianity: Young US men joining 'masculine' Russian churches

A religion with traditions dating back centuries is attracting young American men.
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Young US men are joining Russian churches promising 'absurd levels of manliness'​



"A lot of people ask me: 'Father Moses, how can I increase my manliness to absurd levels?'"

In a YouTube video, external, a priest is championing a form of virile, unapologetic masculinity.

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.

ROCOR, a global network with headquarters in New York, has recently been expanding across parts of the US - mainly as a result of people converting from other faiths.

In the last six months, Father Moses has prepared 75 new followers for baptism in his church of the Mother of God, just north of Austin.

"When my wife and I converted 20 years ago we used to call Orthodoxy the best-kept secret, because people just didn't know what it was," he says.

"But in the past year-and-a-half our congregation has tripled in size."
 
altmin said:
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Orthodox Christianity: Young US men joining 'masculine' Russian churches

A religion with traditions dating back centuries is attracting young American men.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

Young US men are joining Russian churches promising 'absurd levels of manliness'​



"A lot of people ask me: 'Father Moses, how can I increase my manliness to absurd levels?'"

In a YouTube video, external, a priest is championing a form of virile, unapologetic masculinity.

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.

ROCOR, a global network with headquarters in New York, has recently been expanding across parts of the US - mainly as a result of people converting from other faiths.

In the last six months, Father Moses has prepared 75 new followers for baptism in his church of the Mother of God, just north of Austin.

"When my wife and I converted 20 years ago we used to call Orthodoxy the best-kept secret, because people just didn't know what it was," he says.

"But in the past year-and-a-half our congregation has tripled in size."
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Maybe a more hierarchal religion than Catholicism and very anti-gay.
 
This, on the surface, sounds like a good idea. But how will trump's idiot manage it?

Yes, childhood health can probably be better with a better diet. But since this administration is doing the opposite for poor people, how will this work?

Will there be anything substantive or just more horseshit like we are used to from trump.

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MAHA Commission Recommends Nutrition Trials to Improve Childhood Health

The Make America Healthy Again report includes 10 recommendations.
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UNCatTech said:
This, on the surface, sounds like a good idea. But how will trump's idiot manage it?

Yes, childhood health can probably be better with a better diet. But since this administration is doing the opposite for poor people, how will this work?

Will there be anything substantive or just more horseshit like we are used to from trump.

www.theepochtimes.com

MAHA Commission Recommends Nutrition Trials to Improve Childhood Health

The Make America Healthy Again report includes 10 recommendations.
www.theepochtimes.com www.theepochtimes.com
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Remember when Michelle Obama championed this and the Right tried to set her on fire back in 2010? And then in 2018 *somebody* rolled it back?
 
UNCatTech said:
Which sucks because this is one of many things that both parties should be able to agree upon and come together for the better of society.
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One of the real tragedies to having RFK, Jr. and other loons in charge of our healthcare system is that there are definitely things that need to looking into and changing, but these are absolutely the worst people to be doing it. Instead of helping to improve the health of average Americans they're very likely going to make it worse, and perhaps in the process discredit any future attempts by more serious and credentialed (and sane) experts to try to reform and deal with our nation's healthcare issues.
 
UNCatTech said:
This, on the surface, sounds like a good idea. But how will trump's idiot manage it?

Yes, childhood health can probably be better with a better diet. But since this administration is doing the opposite for poor people, how will this work?

Will there be anything substantive or just more horseshit like we are used to from trump.

www.theepochtimes.com

MAHA Commission Recommends Nutrition Trials to Improve Childhood Health

The Make America Healthy Again report includes 10 recommendations.
www.theepochtimes.com www.theepochtimes.com
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This seems like a bunch of nothing.

We already know much of what he claims we need to study more about. We already know that ultra-processed foods are bad, that whole foods are good, etc.

We don’t need to suddenly sink a whole bunch of resources into studies about things we already know.

The issue is—and will remain—that whole foods are more expensive to grow, have shorter shelf lives, and take far more natural resources to produce and distribute than processed foods.

So unless RFK Jr intends to give money to poor people to buy better foods, and to enforce stricter government regulations in areas considered food deserts, this is all just claptrap.
 
EyeballKid said:
This seems like a bunch of nothing.

We already know much of what he claims we need to study more about. We already know that ultra-processed foods are bad, that whole foods are good, etc.

We don’t need to suddenly sink a whole bunch of resources into studies about things we already know.

The issue is—and will remain—that whole foods are more expensive to grow, have shorter shelf lives, and take far more natural resources to produce and distribute than processed foods.

So unless RFK Jr intends to give money to poor people to buy better foods, and to enforce stricter government regulations in areas considered food deserts, this is all just claptrap.
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Yes, we need to work to increase access, but this administration is doing the opposite of what is needed.
 
I expect the school administration, most of its teachers, the school superintendent, and the school board are as Trumplican as the rest of that county.

I was last in Fannin County in October. I’ve never seen so many Trump, Confederate Battle, and Don’t Tread on Me Flags in a lightly populated area.

I expect hardly anyone knew what the play was about - then they learned and objected to it.
 
donbosco said:
School chickened out...
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Unfortunately there have been far, far too many cases of schools, school districts, universities and colleges, law firms, businesses, etc. chickening out and simply caving to this administration. I have a couple of English teacher friends in a NC school district with a good many years under their belt, and they told me that they weren't able to assign their usual summer reading for next year's students because the district is quietly, unofficially "looking at" the novels that are traditionally assigned and hasn't granted approval to use them this year. The novels they mentioned that they usually assign for summer reading are To Kill a Mockingbird and The Life of Frederick Douglass, but there are others that are also being "examined." They told me they have taught both novels for years with no trouble. The idea that these two novels are suddenly un-American and offensive to anyone pretty much says it all about where we are today as a nation. Anybody who says that this administration, and MAGA Nation in general, isn't creating real fear and suppression of free speech and thought simply hasn't been paying attention.
 
altmin said:
Everyone have their irony meters working?


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Georgia high school cancels "The Crucible" after complaints of "demonic" themes

Critics accuse Fannin County High School of caving to hysteria over witchcraft in a play about hysteria over witchcraft
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The fact that the drama teacher was fired a few weeks before the production is a bit weird, too — maybe unrelated, but whatever that was about may have made it easier for the administration to capitulate to complaints about the show.

But it is nutso … apparently the complaining parent never heard of The Crucible before attending the play?

Did the students copy the opening dance scene from the Suspiria remake or something?

Luca Guadagnino Dakota Jonhson GIF by Filmin
 
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