Jay Dyer
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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So I just made the joke of blood moon pies because if you know what a moon pie is, it's like, you know, because he's a portly fellow.
So it's not that we...
focus all of our time and energy on here in the now or you know politics or the social order we have sort of i guess tiered responsibilities i mean obviously you know for us kingdom of god would come first the church is is what comes first but that doesn't negate you know the goodness of this life so we believe in many goods uh not just good or evil right like you
You might have in the history of the, say, Middle Ages, the Latin church, this idea that, well, to be celibate and single is good, but if you're married, that's somehow bad or lesser, right?
We would say there's many goods versus this idea of a sort of a strict good or evil.
That comes out of the dialectics that Augustine had.
Augustine had a very specific idea that, just as an example, he said that marital sex, in his mind, St.
Augustine said,
could never be even though he admitted it's a sacrament he never understood how it could be a sacrament because for him it always involves some degree of venial sin because in his view man's will is either enraptured with god or with some created thing and if it's enraptured with a created thing like in the moment of sexual release then you're in some way not focused on god so he had a dialectical view of sin and and good and evil and of the will
The Orthodox view doesn't have that view.
In fact, we think that there's the possibility of many different goods.
So married life is good and has graces, and there might be certain advantages to living a single celibate life, but it's not inherently somehow holier than if you're married.
And a lot of Orthodox monastics will even admit that, that a lot of married people can achieve a higher level of sanctity even than some monastics because...
just sacrificing itself is not i mean i desire mercy not sacrifice right so just sacrificing itself doesn't necessarily equate to um a more holy status in the orthodox perspective although you might be able to do certain things that you can't do if you're married but that's a very different attitude from sort of like medieval roman catholic attitudes of like sex and marriage what a conversation thank you very much thank you very much
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