>>674787
It's a coarse and tasteless road to Christ, for a coarse and tasteless time, which has made a coarse and tasteless generation. This is somewhat related to the thread "on anger" but I may as well post it here: mass society is at it's root antisocial. The rules that deal with normal socialization break down over communication at such a great scale, i.e. in your personal life, being slow to anger is great advice (you have a real relationship with most who anger you, not escalating and burning ridges is almost always good sense), however the inverse becomes true when dealing with mass communication. Silently bearing insult doesn't work as an example of Christian temperance online, it only makes you look as though you've lost, and being crass to people online who you have only a transitory relationship with doesn't carry the same risks as someone whom you really know. By far the best example of this is Trump. Every time anyone hits him, he hits back twice as hard, and that's why we love him. Contrast this approach with the living joke Jeb Bush (forgetting for a moment that he, like the others in the Bush clan is a servant of the Devil), his strategy was to 'take the high road' and not fight back while being verbally slaughtered, and thus he was proverbially slaughtered, despite being the early favorite of the establishment. Christendom was reduced to it's current abysmal state through many factors, but one of the primary ones was unanswered scorn and ridicule through mass media. Hence one can understand why ultimately whatever Christians emerge from this social wreckage will be those who are willing to fight back in the same manner. Luckily those who are the most outspoken anti-Christians are also the most mentally weak and susceptible to verbal attack. I know this thread was more about Cath V. Orthodox but that is just a microcosm of this larger dynamic
Imo there is nothing really unchristian or even uncharitable about this, we can recognize that the virtue of charity cannot be extended to larger social and political entities such as government, likewise the virtue of temperance and civility may only be applicable in a limited way to mass media as it stands now. Besides, these people had their chance to be civil and squandered it, our charity is meant primarily for the bystanders, who through our ridicule might see the idiocy and evil of our opponents, and so avoid their grievous error. Think of it like how smacking a burglar over the head is charity toward his potential victims, not malice toward him.
>>674926
>>674957
Firstly, it is obvious that the Church does and should perform interracial marriages. Second, this says nothing about the wisdom or charity of racemixing; racemixing is an assault on the social foundation of your community for what is at best a selfish concern, and at worst (and more likely) just fetishism (looking at all the yellow-fever dorks on this board). The idiotic concept of "true (romantic) love conquering all" which has been popularized by perfidious Jews is the message of radical individualism and materialistic atheism, not Christ. Marriage is for procreation, not an expression of love, hence why marriage cannot be undone (were it otherwise, to fall out of love would be to justify dissolving marriage, but this isn't the case). Your spouse isn't a substitute for your ethnic heritage, community, and social bonds, and to set those against your marriage is personal folly and public insult. What starts as an erosion of ethnic identity shortly progresses to social confusion and from hence a collapse of public faith. One need only look at how the cult of racial egalitarianism has supplanted the truth of Christ in the western world to see such an effect at work (although miscegenation is only one contributing factor in this, to be fair).
That being said, people need not be saved from their bad decisions, their marriages are valid just as the marriage of two ill suited spouses who hate one another is. I'd only ask that any who would do such a thing would have the courtesy to join their spouse in their own country, our communities are in a sorry enough state as it is. I would be happy if the government made this mandatory, it's that big of a hazard.
If you dislike these obvious facts feel free to vent here >>669613