We are there, at least on the big stuff like abortion and faux marriage. The problem is that we are easily overlooked. It is likely that the average Sunday attendance (ASA) of all the Orthodox jurisdictions in the US combined is only around a million, with the largest being the Greek Archdiocese. Only three of the jurisdictions can credibly claim an ASA of more than 100,000.
It’s a bit funny because it was reported a few years ago that Orthodoxy was the fastest growing Christian denomination in the United States. But when your numbers barely hit a million and you are at times balkanized along ethnic lines, it’s hard to get a lot of serious attention from the powers that be. But if you go to Europe, especially Eastern Europe, the Church is one of the main forces holding a lot of the liberal idiocy from the West at bay.
“We are there, at least on the big stuff like abortion and faux marriage.”
How are we there on “faux marriage”? The Church doesn’t do “faux marriage” and so far as I can see, it’s not on our horizon. Is there something else we are supposed to do beyond simply saying no?
If we pray unceasingly and gradually die to the self so that the nous becomes increasingly focused on the uncreated light of God, what has this to do with us?