Now I will criticize, expose the disease, while remembering the rule: criticize, but propose. First, we will ridicule the absurdity, and then we will propose how to heal the wound (or at least partially heal, because it is unlikely to fully heal?! Not because the disease is severe, but because no one wants to be treated, and what is worse — does not see the disease, and responds to every remark-suggestion with hatred (speaking from experience)). So, throughout the entire period of study in such “spiritual” schools, they talk about the Kingdom of God, how good and beautiful it is, dream about it, ask many times a day for it to come (“Our Father, … thy kingdom come”), and yet they do not try to enter it, experience, know it, although the Cup of the Kingdom is offered to the faithful every day!? They theorize, fantasize, but do not practice, that is, they do not test what they teach (what the Kingdom of God, Happiness is) — they do not want, do not know how, do not understand how, where, and when?! Then what do they teach and what do they learn?! Orthodoxy?! No, because Orthodoxy loudly proclaims that the Kingdom of God has come and that every Eucharist the faithful partake of it, experience it, know it, foresee their own eschatological resurrection, Happiness! And now judge for yourselves what fruits such a “spiritual” school bears (often they call themselves “…Orthodox Academy…”, whose students commune twice a year (before Christmas and Easter), and not voluntarily, but according to the schedule, according to the plan (that is, “compulsorily”)?! And what is most frightening is that this is considered (by both teachers (!?) and students) the norm, that is, a normal “spiritual”, “church” life!?? This madness, absurdity is so obvious that there is no point in talking about it!).
So, there is no spiritual life in that “spiritual” school! And the teaching?! Maybe at least they formally learn Orthodoxy?! And here, too, I have to disappoint us! No, they only call what they study “Orthodoxy”, but in essence, they study paganism (religiosity), how to be a religious person, learn to serve God, offer Him Sacrifices (Bloodless or bloody — it does not matter) and wait for His second coming!?? Let us recall what we said earlier about religion and the Church. Religion is when a person serves God, prays to God (in the sense: tries to change Him, urges Him to stop being what He is, and to start being what they (religious people) want), offers sacrifices to God, etc., that is, the person acts, and God changes, the action comes from the person! But in the Church, everything is the opposite: God prays to the person (“Repent!”, “Arise, sleeper, rise from the dead!”, “Come to Me all” etc.; every prayer of the church is a prayer of God to the person; not God needs to change, but the person; not God needs to hear the prayer, but the person; not God, who Loves, needs requests, but us — more about prayer in the next parts), God serves the person (“time to serve, serve the Lord”, see the beginning of the Liturgy; Peter at the Last Supper did not allow God to serve him (but he wanted to serve God!??), then he heard the words that if I (God Jesus) do not serve you, that is, if you do not accept service from Me (on the verbal icon it is depicted in the form of washing feet), then you will have no part with Me, that is, you will not be Happy), God offers Sacrifice to the person (“You, Christ, are He Who offers the Sacrifice and is offered, accepts and is distributed”), etc., that is, the person changes, not God, God acts as the actor, not the person (who only has to accept the Gift, respond to the action-gift of God with gratitude). Religious people believe (trust the teachers of a certain religion) that happiness will come after the grave, and here one must meticulously follow the commandments and prescriptions of a certain religion, and inheriting happiness in eternity depends on following or not following the commandments and everything prescribed by a certain teaching. In the Church, everything is different: the Kingdom of God has come, already exists (not will come after the grave!?) and is given to all; it remains only to accept the Gift (not to earn or ask for it…) through repentance (“Repent! Believe (that is, live by the Gospel, the Kingdom that has come) in the Gospel — (because) the Kingdom of God has come!”). You need to learn to “serve” the Guest, “entertain” Him, because He has already come, already sitting in the House at the table!!! And they (students of the “…Orthodox Academies (seminaries, schools, etc.)…”) learn (4, 6, 8 years!?) and then teach others, atheists, pagans “defend” doctoral, candidate dissertations on how better to meet the Guest who promised to come (they are waiting for the Second Coming), about the Last Judgment after the grave… In short, they learn to meet the Second Coming of Christ: how to decorate the yard with flowers, spread red carpets from the gates to the front doors, learn to walk with banners and other church paraphernalia to meet the Coming One, memorize speeches when meeting with bread and salt… Absurd! The Guest has come, already in the house, and they are waiting for him outside!? (This example-joke, unfortunately, is not even an analogy, but an identity that describes the state of teaching and “spiritual” life in the so-called “Orthodox Academies”!). Instead of learning to repent and live here and now in the Kingdom of God, in Christ, Who has come, that is, by the right spiritual (that is, Eucharistic, Parish) life, the so-called “professors”, “doctors” of theology do not stop preaching paganism, calling their fantasies “Orthodoxy”. What light to expect from such darkness!? (If some “professor”, “doctor” of theology (pagan!) legalist-pharisee wants to argue (so that I do not waste time on this dead person; I have already made several attempts! Complete lack of mind and deadness!?), let him immediately look at his Eucharistic life (whether he communes — because if he is a priest, then “communes” every Sunday, is he a parishioner?! If this “professor-doctor” is a parishioner, at least theoretically knows what I am talking about (although this is unlikely), then I am ready to communicate with such a zealot of “orthodoxy”, otherwise — a waste of precious time!)).