WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/orwell-george/27946/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Orwell</b></a></p><blockquote>But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by “thou shalt not,” the individual can practice a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by “love” or “reason,” he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.</blockquote><p><b>George Orwell</b> (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]<br>Essay (1946-09), “Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels,” <i>Polemic</i>, No. 5</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/orwell-george/27946/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/orwell-george/27946/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=orwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orwell</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=conformity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conformity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=generalpublic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>generalpublic</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=intolerance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intolerance</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=orthodoxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orthodoxy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=publicopinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicopinion</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>public</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=forgiveness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forgiveness</span></a></p>
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TrumpArchbishop Elpidophoros Compares Trump to Constantine the Great at Greek Independence Day Event G...<br><br><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/03/26/archbishop-elpidophoros-compares-trump-to-constantine-the-great-at-greek-independence-day-event/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/03/26/archbishop-elpidophoros-compares-trump-to-constantine-the-great-at-greek-independence-day-event/</a><br><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Usa" target="_blank">#Usa</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Greek" target="_blank">#Greek</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NEWS" target="_blank">#NEWS</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ORTHODOXY" target="_blank">#ORTHODOXY</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RELIGION" target="_blank">#RELIGION</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/American" target="_blank">#American</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Archbishop" target="_blank">#Archbishop</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/church" target="_blank">#church</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Constantine" target="_blank">#Constantine</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cross" target="_blank">#Cross</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Day" target="_blank">#Day</a><br><br><a href="https://awakari.com/pub-msg.html?id=FSJeM5ZiCKbbcRys7nvpWTSdjKC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Event Attributes</a>
TrumpArchbishop Elpidophoros Compares Trump to Constantine the Great at Greek Independence Day Event G...<br><br><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/03/26/archbishop-elpidophoros-compares-trump-to-constantine-the-great-at-greek-independence-day-event/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/03/26/archbishop-elpidophoros-compares-trump-to-constantine-the-great-at-greek-independence-day-event/</a><br><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Usa" target="_blank">#Usa</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Greek" target="_blank">#Greek</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NEWS" target="_blank">#NEWS</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ORTHODOXY" target="_blank">#ORTHODOXY</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RELIGION" target="_blank">#RELIGION</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/American" target="_blank">#American</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Archbishop" target="_blank">#Archbishop</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/church" target="_blank">#church</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Constantine" target="_blank">#Constantine</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cross" target="_blank">#Cross</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Day" target="_blank">#Day</a><br><br><a href="https://awakari.com/pub-msg.html?id=2qjdDZkcubd8gVFWanxIKTwG0Uy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Event Attributes</a>
TrumpArchbishop Elpidophoros Compares Trump to Constantine the Great at Greek Independence Day Event G...<br><br><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/03/26/archbishop-elpidophoros-compares-trump-to-constantine-the-great-at-greek-independence-day-event/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/03/26/archbishop-elpidophoros-compares-trump-to-constantine-the-great-at-greek-independence-day-event/</a><br><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Usa" target="_blank">#Usa</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Greek" target="_blank">#Greek</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NEWS" target="_blank">#NEWS</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ORTHODOXY" target="_blank">#ORTHODOXY</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RELIGION" target="_blank">#RELIGION</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/American" target="_blank">#American</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Archbishop" target="_blank">#Archbishop</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/church" target="_blank">#church</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Constantine" target="_blank">#Constantine</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cross" target="_blank">#Cross</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Day" target="_blank">#Day</a><br><br><a href="https://awakari.com/pub-msg.html?id=IgRf3db039bZVo4PPIuZ1pQxDVY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Event Attributes</a>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/12578/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Robert Ingersoll</b></a></p><blockquote>Whoever has an opinion of his own, and honestly expresses it, will be guilty of heresy. Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak.</blockquote><p><b>Robert Green Ingersoll</b> (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator<br>Lecture (1874-05-03), “Heretics and Heresies,” Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/12578/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=belief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>belief</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=heresy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heresy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=heterodoxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heterodoxy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meme</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=minority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minority</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=orthodoxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orthodoxy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=other" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>other</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=outsider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>outsider</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=weak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weak</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/75758/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Thomas Carlyle</b></a></p><blockquote>Whoso belongs only to his own age, and reverences only its gilt Popinjays or smoot-smeared Mumbojumbos, must needs die with it.</blockquote><p><b>Thomas Carlyle</b> (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian<br>Essay (1832-05) “Boswell’s Life of Johnson,” <i>Fraser’s Magazine</i>, Vol. 5, No. 28</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/75758/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/carlyle-thomas/75758…</a>\</p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=contemporary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contemporary</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=era" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>era</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fame</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=narrowmindedness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>narrowmindedness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=obsolescence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obsolescence</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=orthodoxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orthodoxy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=period" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>period</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=reputation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reputation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=shibboleths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shibboleths</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=timelessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>timelessness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=vision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vision</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/5678/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Ingersoll</b></a></p><blockquote>Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power. Why should the church pity a man whom her God hates? Why should she show mercy to a kind and noble heretic whom her God will burn in eternal fire? Why should a Christian be better than his God?</blockquote><p><b>Robert Green Ingersoll</b> (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator<br>Lecture (1874-05-03), “Heretics and Heresies,” Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/5678/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=afterlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>afterlife</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=belief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>belief</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>church</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=churchandstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>churchandstate</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=divinejudgment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>divinejudgment</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=divinepunishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>divinepunishment</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=hell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hell</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=heresy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heresy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=orthodoxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orthodoxy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=salvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>salvation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=theocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theocracy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=damnation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>damnation</span></a></p>
Wisdom in Space<p>Men insist most vehemently upon their certainties when their hold upon them has been shaken. Frantic orthodoxy is a method for obscuring doubt.<br /> -- Reinhold Niebuhr</p><p>⬆ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wisdom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ReinholdNiebuhr" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReinholdNiebuhr</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anxiety" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Anxiety</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Certainty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Certainty</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Doubt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Doubt</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Orthodoxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Orthodoxy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Religion</span></a></p><p>⬇ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Panorama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sunset" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sunset</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/StPeteBeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StPeteBeach</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Florida</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/3374/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Russell</b></a></p><blockquote>One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.</blockquote><p><b>Bertrand Russell</b> (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher<br><i>Conquest of Happiness</i>, Part 1, ch. 9 “Fear of Public Opinion” (1930)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/3374/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/russell-bertrand/337…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=conformity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conformity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=convention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>convention</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=orthodoxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orthodoxy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=publicopinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicopinion</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=submission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>submission</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=tyrannyofthemajority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyrannyofthemajority</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/5613/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Robert Ingersoll</b></a></p><blockquote>Men and women have been burned for thinking there is but one God; that there was none; that the Holy Ghost is younger than God; that God was somewhat older than his son; for insisting that good works will save a man without faith; that faith will do without good works; for declaring that a sweet babe will not be burned eternally, because its parents failed to have its head wet by a priest; for speaking of God as though he had a nose; for denying that Christ was his own father; for contending that three persons, rightly added together, make more than one; for believing in purgatory; for denying the reality of hell; for pretending that priests can forgive sins; for preaching that God is an essence; for denying that witches rode through the air on sticks; for doubting the total depravity of the human heart; for laughing at irresistible grace, predestination and particular redemption; for denying that good bread could be made of the body of a dead man; for pretending that the pope was not managing this world for God, and in the place of God; for disputing the efficacy of a vicarious atonement; for thinking the Virgin Mary was born like other people; for thinking that a man’s rib was hardly sufficient to make a good-sized woman; for denying that God used his finger for a pen; for asserting that prayers are not answered, that diseases are not sent to punish unbelief; for denying the authority of the Bible; for having a Bible in their possession; for attending mass, and for refusing to attend; for wearing a surplice; for carrying a cross, and for refusing; for being a Catholic, and for being a Protestant; for being an Episcopalian, a Presbyterian, a Baptist, and for being a Quaker. In short, every virtue has been a crime, and every crime a virtue. The church has burned honesty and rewarded hypocrisy. And all this, because it was commanded by a book.</blockquote><p><b>Robert Green Ingersoll</b> (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator<br>Lecture (1874-05-03), “Heretics and Heresies,” Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/5613/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=belief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>belief</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=Bible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bible</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=burning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>burning</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christianity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>church</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=denomination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>denomination</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=disbelief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disbelief</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=doubt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doubt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>execution</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=heresy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heresy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=intolerance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intolerance</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=miracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>miracle</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=orthodoxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orthodoxy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=persecution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>persecution</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=punishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punishment</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=questioning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>questioning</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=religiousintolerance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religiousintolerance</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=religiouspersecution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religiouspersecution</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/addison-joseph/52896/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Addison</b></a></p><blockquote>And that this is the Case very often, we may observe from the Behaviour of some of the most zealous for Orthodoxy, who have often great Friendships and Intimacies with vicious immoral Men, provided they do but agree with them in the same Scheme of Belief.</blockquote><p><b>Joseph Addison</b> (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman<br>Essay (1711-10-02), <i>The Spectator</i>, No. 185</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/addison-joseph/52896/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/addison-joseph/52896…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=allies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>allies</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bedfellow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bedfellow</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=belief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>belief</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=cause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cause</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fellowtraveler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fellowtraveler</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=hypocrisy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hypocrisy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=orthodoxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orthodoxy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=piety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>piety</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=truebeliever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>truebeliever</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=zeal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zeal</span></a></p>
Milos<p>Somewhere in Western Serbia people have made a grave error. They had called an Orthodox priest to cast spells at their Peugeot. Peugeots are made in France, either trade you Peugeot for a Lada, or get a Catholic priest.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atheist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atheist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atheism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/orthodoxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orthodoxy</span></a></p>
H.Jarfr ☭ ᚺ᛫ᛃᚨᚱᚠᛉ<p><strong>Introduction!</strong></p>
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Stephen Hayes<p>My comment on this: Perhaps it’s American gender angst. The point about Orthodoxy isn’t that it’s macho, it’s rather that it’s true.<br /><a href="https://khanya.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/gendered-christianity/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">khanya.wordpress.com/2010/11/0</span><span class="invisible">1/gendered-christianity/</span></a><br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/orthodoxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>orthodoxy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/masculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>masculinity</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/macho" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>macho</span></a></p>
Stephen Hayes<p>Young men leaving traditional churches for ‘masculine’ Orthodox Christianity in droves <br /><a href="https://nypost.com/2024/12/03/us-news/young-men-are-converting-to-orthodox-christianity-in-droves/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nypost.com/2024/12/03/us-news/</span><span class="invisible">young-men-are-converting-to-orthodox-christianity-in-droves/</span></a><br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/orthodoxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>orthodoxy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/masculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>masculinity</span></a></p>
Stephen Hayes<p>East is East and West is West: thoughts of relations between Roamn Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches</p><p><a href="https://khanya.wordpress.com/2016/10/04/east-is-east-and-west-is-west/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">khanya.wordpress.com/2016/10/0</span><span class="invisible">4/east-is-east-and-west-is-west/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Orthodox" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Orthodox</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Orthodoxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Orthodoxy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RomanCatholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RomanCatholic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/theology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>theology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ecclesiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ecclesiology</span></a></p>
nico198X<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvp1vXvqC8E" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=Zvp1vXvqC8</span><span class="invisible">E</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Christianity</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Orthodoxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Orthodoxy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nationalism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Heresy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Heresy</span></a></p>
Matei Matthias Covrigus 🥨<p>I want to join the call of the Orthodox priests I encountered online recently:</p><p>Halloween is a holiday of the devil. Don’t celebrate it!</p><p>So much logistics, plastic and noise and more plastic and other diabolical attributes.</p><p>And more logistics!</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/halloween" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>halloween</span></a> <br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/orthodox" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>orthodox</span></a><br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/orthodoxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>orthodoxy</span></a> <br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/OrthodoxChurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OrthodoxChurch</span></a> <br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/plastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>plastic</span></a> <br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Environment</span></a></p>
Stephen Hayes<p>Roman Catholic radicals and Orthodoxy</p><p><a href="https://khanya.wordpress.com/2017/12/13/roman-catholic-radicals-and-orthodoxy/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">khanya.wordpress.com/2017/12/1</span><span class="invisible">3/roman-catholic-radicals-and-orthodoxy/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Orthodoxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Orthodoxy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hippies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hippies</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Catholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Catholics</span></a></p>
Stephen Hayes<p>Racism as an Orthodox problem</p><p><a href="https://ondermynende.wordpress.com/2018/08/23/racism-as-an-orthodox-problem/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ondermynende.wordpress.com/201</span><span class="invisible">8/08/23/racism-as-an-orthodox-problem/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Orthodoxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Orthodoxy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>racism</span></a></p>
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