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What the Orthodox world needs today above all is a modern St. Chrysostom, & a modern St. Palamas. The secular humanism of ancient Greece does not at all essentially differ from contemporary materialist philosophy. The latter is but a further development of the former.

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One of the most important tasks of our modern Palamas is to refute the bogey of progress. Our obsession with "change", & "progress", & "moving with the times to meet thr challenge of the age" is nothing but a modernist dogma derived from darwinism, & -

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incoperated into social philosophy as materialist concept of history by Karl Marx. As Orthodox Christians, we should only be concerned with the submission to the will of God(theoria/catharsis), through unquestioning obedience to the Holy Scriptures, & Saintly writings.

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Once we attain cultural indepedence, we do not have anything to fear from a natural, & spontaneous social evolution & development within the context of our indigenous Orthodox values, & ideals.

So long as we remain slaves to modernism, however, change means nothing except -

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progressive abandonment of Orthodox values in exchange for the western naive utopian way of life & this is why under present circumstances, every change is from the Orthodox point of view to our own detriment.

There is nothing "new" or "progressive" about modernism.

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Despite scientific, technological, & economic "development", ideologically, modern Western civilization has not changed at all since the Age of Pericles nearly 2,500 years ago.