Are some of Orthodox people ashamed to be Orthodox?

[Bobby Martnen]

Canadian Serb.

Is your native language French or English?

[Óttar]

Nope not at all. What a stupid question. Are you ashamed to be muslim, OP? My mother is very religious. She makes fish every friday like her mother used to as well. I love fish.

That is a Catholic tradition.

[Dick]

Is your native language French or English?

I barely speak french except for le magasin de biere/the beer store

That is a Catholic tradition.

Nope. It's a fasting day for this Orthodox saint.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parascheva_of_the_Balkans

“Sveti Petka” meaning Saint Friday

[ovidiu]

That's odd. Did you grow up in an Italian, French or portuguese neighborhood? Anglo Canadians aren't Catholic.

I know. Originally in Montreal area yeah but moved later. I don't know it was their idea; I didn't have much say in it. I guess to them it was sort of a compromise, meeting half way. Orthodoxy is closer to Catholicism of course. Went to a Catholic school for a while too, cause they figured that would be better education.

[Voyt]

They're ashamed because deep down they realize God punished them with 500 years of Islam and communism and the Golden Horde because they abandoned God's one true Church.

[Mortimer]

I think it is opposite they are very proud and I think there are more militant zealots than in every other Christian sect the russians also don't allow the pope to visit their country which I consider wrong because all Christians should aim for more unity

[Tauromachos]

Not at all

[Aila]

Even though I was brought up as Lutheran, I failed to see/experience the spiritual aspect of that Church, (others no doubt can) - but I do have great respect for the old ways Russian Orthodox Church and this respect is still very strong in our collective conscious, in our collective memory.

Since our Church was and still is the Forest – the Orthodox ways blended in well.
The Face of God Film: The Orthodox Church on Climate Change:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...urch-on-climat

Sacred sites were not destroyed and the “Spirit Trees” were not cut down, instead Holy Icons were placed on them (& that tree is the "Guardian Spirit Tree” of the Bear):
https://anothercity.org/wp-content/u...-2-400x242.png

No priests high on pulpit delivering sermons of our evil ways - that we are all destined to hell, because of our nature beliefs …. Instead, there was this inclusion of just joining in the singing and chanting.
How should I say this, in the body of Christ (the Orthodox Church is) and by the Grace of Holy Spirit – there was no need to defend territorial belief system grounds …. boundaries.
In that embodiment of Christ, we ALL … Christians, Indigenous, Wilderness ….. found our belonging, our “unified home” ….. in One Love - in One Sacred Reality – in One Spirit.

Sergius of Valaam, a Greek monk not fearing wilderness nor its natives and Karelian Herman of Valaam – both founders of the Valaam Monastery on our ancient Sacred Site, (where we took offerings and at the time when Bears were still revered as Totemic ancestors. So we also came to understand the death and resurrection of Jesus through Bear Ceremony).

Orthodox missionaries entered Indigenous environments “as guests in another man’s house” and that was true.
These monks were proper-right-way-humble, loving the Creation as God does, seeing the invisible God through ‘his’ Creation ….so they practiced what they believed, were willing to serve …

Where the Lutherans only saw Evil, the Orthodox attitude was: “God speaks in Skolt Sámi language as well” …..…. so the culture, language, tradition became interwoven with the Orthodox Church.

In Alaska God speaks Aleut, Alutiiq, Tlingit, and Yup'ik languages, so efforts were made to first understand it, then to preserve the language and the culture.

We believe(d) in the Eagle-like-“God” – but you could enter into communion with the Eagle through the Orthodox Church also:
http://merja.ru/imgs/merjanskoe_pravoslavje.JPG

That picture, which I absolutely love - I trust is named - “Faith of Ancestors”.
...... to receive the One Spirit, even the Eagle accepted Orthodoxy into its heart ..... And we accepted Christ.



Great and entertaining video on Alaskan Native Culture and Stories – Orthodox view:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivp5B1ky9Gg

Respect:
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qim...51f00db35.webp

[Jana]

Not at all, western Christians are much more self-hating, traitorous, and ready to submit to other religious branch than their own.