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

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    taiwan_girl
    wrote 18 days ago last edited by
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    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30q5l8d4lro

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

    In a YouTube video, 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.

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      Mik
      wrote 18 days ago last edited by Mik
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      Evidently Бог doesn't like girly-men. But...if you have to ask, you aren't.

      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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        jon-nyc
        wrote 18 days ago last edited by
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        Love my skinny jeans.

        "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
        -Cormac McCarthy

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          18 days ago

          https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30q5l8d4lro

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

          In a YouTube video, 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.

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          Doctor Phibes
          wrote 18 days ago last edited by Doctor Phibes
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          "A lot of people ask me: 'Father Moses, how can I increase my manliness to absurd levels?'"

          Just bend over this chair....

          I was only joking

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            Renauda
            wrote 17 days ago last edited by Renauda
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            The ROC abroad is a tool of the Russian FSB. It performs a similar function as did the National Council of American–Soviet Friendship (NCASF) throughout the Cold War and Gorbachev era and was shut down in 1991 when the USSR itself was dissolved.

            These young men only think they are finding Jesus.

            Elbows up!

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              Tom-K
              wrote 17 days ago last edited by Tom-K
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              You think that's the ROCOR too? Those guys seem pretty hardcore Orthodox. They have guys like Jay Dyer and Archpriest Peter Heers, that seem to be nasty Aholes online. It doesn't seem the actual bishops of the church want to have much to do with them.

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                Renauda
                wrote 17 days ago last edited by Renauda
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                Since ROCOR falls under the Moscow Patriarchy, you can be assured it is co-opted. Lock, stock and barrel.

                A fish rots from its head.

                Elbows up!

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