>welcome to the Orthodox Church>that will be $250 to wash your sins away
>>18477855Their (((G-d))) is considered the king of the Jews.........
>>18477855Everything that puts a step in the USA is cursed. This country is cursed. Freemansons and crypto-celestial dragons destroyed every single atom from lthis country with their money shit
>>18477893Exemplified by Mormonism and their practices at their holiest sanctuary, the Salt Lake City Temple.>Your Temple Recommend now includes a QR code so that it's faster than ever to check if you've paid your membership fee and are fully qualified to worship God.>That cash register in the lobby next to the Holiest of Holies? So that you can easily rent garments if you forgot them. Isn't it convenient?>Yes, we DO expect you to pay the last 11 months' back-tithing if you want to attend your sister's wedding. That supermall won't pay for itself (it could, but we're prefer to enlarge the Church's investment portfolio).
>>18477855>>18478031Why does the all-powerful and omnipotent God, who created the universe, always need more cash?
>>18477855i didn't know greek churches could be that stingythe priest at my OCA church is always very adamant about us only donating a little bit of what money we feel we truly don't need, and most of us parishioners help out more with cleaning or cooking for the church's meals after liturgy than doing our charity from our walletsthough the church you're looking at is in brooklyn so perhaps there are some "cultural influences" at play haha
>>18477893>and crypto-celestial dragonsjust put the tacos in the bag, choncho
>>18477893You lost, Ortho-tranny
>>18477893>MY beardmen are Eastern European>That makes them BASED!Kill yourself. No, seriously. Put a bullet in your worthless brain. It's the best move you can make; Every day you continue to live you're just piling more sins to your account that will make your stay in Hell much, much worse. Cut your losses.
>>18478031Ex-Mormons reach is always so petty>We put temple recommends on mobile so it's more convenient for you to not have to carry around a flimsy piece of paper >Noooo! You can't do that! Because...because...I said so!
>>18478407Here's a bunch of Lebanese EOs in Halifax, so it's not solely a Greek or Brooklyn thing.
>>18479454>tfw too poor to buy a baptism + church subscriptionGuess I'll enjoy Hell
>>18478044God works in mysterious ways. Now shut up and donate.
>>18479454Anti-Catholics still cry about medieval indulgences but today in orthodox you need $50 to receive the body of Christ
>>18477855Is is this normal in America? I'm European and while I don't believe anymore getting baptised was free?Like I can't imagine God would be happy with anyone who is cockblocking others from joining Christianity because they can't afford to be baptised? What type of bullshit is that...
>>18477893Lmao do you think baptism in Russia or other orthodox countries are free? That's literally how modern orthodox churches survive, it's just a slightly different approach to Catholicism.Instead of a membership subscription fee, orthodox churches rely on donations, but also on commercialisation of rituals. You have to pay for baptisms, weddings, funerals, but also smaller amounts for paraklesis, parastas, and just health/died prayers during the liturgy of preparation.Welcome to capitalism baby
Not only that, but the priest expects a tip, too. Not even joking.
>>18479550>>tfw too poor to buy a baptism + church subscription>Guess I'll enjoy HellPlease think of the little old widow who threw in the two mites. It was all that she had...
Blatant simony.
>>18479550>>18479938This is why despite my interest I’m not going to any church. I was a former Catholic, then Pentecostal, and now non-religious, but I do feel a calling to go to my local Catholic or Orthodox churches. However, I turn back at the steps of the church after seeing retired rich boomers, wealthy families and others in their “Sunday Best” clothing going to church so that they can have their little social club. Mass/Divine Liturgy has long lost its ancient tradition of being worship for them, now it’s a series of methodical rites that they dryly comply with in order to be holier-than-thou. The churches I went to while growing up in my much more poor third world home country actually had poor widows, orphaned kids and others who couldn’t pay tithes. They’d come to church wearing modest, simple clothing, sometimes even work clothes, and pray fervently. Here, I don’t see any of that.
>>18479924well i get the wedding and funeral part. but still kek'ing
>>18480400It is pretty funny. You buy an incredibly overpriced piece of paper, write a bunch of family names on picrelated, hand it to an altar boy, who then hands that piece of paper to read while "praying" for that person. Basically you can thus attribute a monetary value to praying for someone.Religion sure is funny
>>18480400So much for christcucks larping about being the one, true and holy church when their own church has made tollbooths at regular locations along the narrow way that Jesus preached.
>>18479924>You have to pay for baptisms, weddings, funerals, but also smaller amounts for paraklesis, parastas, and just health/died prayers during the liturgy of preparationvgh...the simplistic beauty of the apostolic churches...
>>18480431>liturgic preparation prayer: 15 rub - every name>common prayer during liturgy: 15 rub - up to 15 namesKEEEEEEEEEK
>>18480059go back
>>18480681no. Jesus did not pay John the Baptist for a baptism, and made a whip himself and beat those who were profiting off of temple rites. A baptism shouldn’t be worth hundreds of dollars, that’s several days of minimum wage work. In other words, the poorest minimum wage workers living paycheck to paycheck are mathematically excluded.>>18479648God works through the ways of capitalism, the revenue and gross profit of the church must increase
>>18477855You could wait for the Easter discount. Surely you wouldn't be unlucky enough to die before then, right? Yeah, you'll be fine.
>>18481083>the Easter discountYou’ve got to be kidding me. If Jesus decided to show his resurrected form on an Easter Sunday, he’d also think it appropriate to fashion a whip out of the priestly robes and personally and literally defrock the priests running this greedy scam then and there.
>>18477855>>18479454>>18480431so THIS is the church that zoomers and the terminally online were praising and hyping as 'based' and 'trad' ?? MEGA KEK
>>18479335Nice try Joe, but I investigate cults before they ask for my money, not after.I hope you enjoyed your first ever celebration of the Holy Week. There's surely more traditions from the Great Apostasy coming to enrich your life if the currect direction of your church continues.
>>18481106Rich traditions such as charging $250 for baptisms?
>>18481111It was Rusty Nelson's directive to mingle the philosophies of men with scripture, not mine. Direct your complains to Oaks when he instructs everyone to wear a crucifix.
>>18479880>baptised was free?polish here, its theoretically free but usually parents are expected to pay custom fee, some priests have regular feeit was different under commies but after they fell church really get greedy >>18479924>Instead of a membership subscription fee, orthodox churches rely on donations, but also on commercialisation of rituals. You have to pay for baptisms, weddings, funerals, but also smaller amounts for paraklesis, parastas, and just health/died prayers during the liturgy of preparation.>Welcome to capitalism babysame in modern Poland
