Gnosticism may inspire Hollywood blockbusters and New York Times best-sellers, but has never inspired love of neighbor. It produced no saints. Gnostic writings are an interesting read, but there's a reason they didn't make the biblical cut.
Rating: 8|Votes: 1
Closer to home, an analysis of the 2008 British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey by David Voas of the University of Manchester reveals that the historical correlation between being educated and being "non-religious" has not only weakened but reversed.
Tatiana Kuznetsova
But not only psychotherapy, scientology, or therapeutically oriented sects, such as “transcendental meditation,” occupy themselves with healing emotional illnesses. Christianity, “and Orthodoxy in particular, in the opinion of theologians, is a medical science”; and “the Church’s work is to heal.” Met. Hierotheos Vlachos, Orthodox psychotherapy, (Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra) 2004, 18.
Met. Georges Khodr
Perhaps there is a third question. How can the West, which has effectively adopted the Islamic view of the blending of religion and state, return to the purity of its Christianity which does not know this blending? Can countries be run by saints?
Eric Simpson
Rating: 8,2|Votes: 6
A person who is poor in spirit, on the other hand, does not trust in riches, or in the natural feeling of security afforded by a good job, or in the apparent stability of a comfortable home. Such things are necessary, desirable and part of life, and there is nothing implicitly wrong with one's enjoyment of them; but the person who is poor in spirit does not invest in them beyond their usefulness. Someone who is poor in spirit depends finally on God, and this dependence leads to peace.
