Having entered the Christmas season, we ask those who find the work of the Mystagogy Resource Center beneficial to them to help us continue our work with a generous financial gift as you are able. As an incentive, we are offering the following booklet.

In 1909 the German philosopher Arthur Drews wrote a book called "The Myth of Christ", which New Testament scholar Bart D. Ehrman has called "arguably the most influential mythicist book ever produced," arguing that Jesus Christ never existed and was simply a myth influenced by more ancient myths. The reason this book was so influential was because Vladimir Lenin read it and was convinced that Jesus never existed, thus justifying his actions in promoting atheism and suppressing the Orthodox Church in the Soviet Union. Moreover, the ideologues of the Third Reich would go on to implement the views of Drews to create a new "Aryan religion," viewing Jesus as an Aryan figure fighting against Jewish materialism. 

Due to the tremendous influence of this book in his time, George Florovsky viewed the arguments presented therein as very weak and easily refutable, which led him to write a refutation of this text which was published in Russian by the YMCA Press in Paris in 1929. This apologetic brochure titled "Did Christ Live? Historical Evidence of Christ" was one of the first texts of his published to promote his Neopatristic Synthesis, bringing the patristic heritage to modern historical and cultural conditions. With the revival of these views among some in our time, this text is as relevant today as it was when it was written. 

Never before published in English, it is now available for anyone who donates at least $20 to the Mystagogy Resource Center upon request (please specify in your donation that you want the book). Thank you.



April 5, 2019

The Romiosini of 1821 and the Great Powers (10 of 11)

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

...continued from part nine.

32. Marxists Make a Caricature of Romiosini and Bombard the Caricature

Benefiting from the collapse of the philosophical, theological and social foundations of the Frankish and Russian civilizations, Marxists continually bombard the Christianity of Europe and Russia as a mighty factor in the subjugation of the serfs, without observing that the Frankish occupiers banished the Romans from the hierarchy and the abbacy, becoming themselves bishops and abbots in order to govern in this way within the Church the occupied Romans.

The founders of Communism, Marx and Engels, lived at a time when the above written origins of the class distinctions of the Franks was not known. This is why they simply gave an economic explanation of the origins of European feudalism. Thus they developed an abstract philosophy regarding the evolution of economics and class distinctions, which is neither correct nor is it possible to be applied as an interpretive key to the history of all peoples, as they think.

Believing dogmatically and falsely, as we have seen, that Romiosini has the same philosophical, theological and social foundations with the Franks and Russians, Marxists brought to Greece their arsenal of trivial arguments and began their siege of Romiosini.

33. The Romans of 1821 Would Have Battled the Marxists With the Same Steel Determination

The Romans could have escaped the sufferings of the Turkish occupation if they had become Turks. They were enslaved, because they refused to change their faith! Not because they were enslaved to the rich. As Turks the Romans would have at least been free if not richer. But as Romans they wanted to be free as Christians and not as Muslims. If the Turks were atheist Marxists, the Romans of 1821 would have battled against them with the same steel determination.

34. The Advantage of the Russian Design

As we have seen, it is very much advantageous in Russia to associate the 25th of March not with the Fall of Constantinople, when we became enslaved as Romans and became free as Romans, but as an enslavement of the Greeks to Romiosini and the Ecumenical Patriarchate. In order for the people to not become indignant, the agents of the Russians forged history made a distinction between Romans and non-existent Byzantines. In this way the Roman Greeks are enslaved to the Byzantines and to the Byzantine Ecumenical Patriarchate.

Thus was established the advantage especially for the Russian design, that the Turks took Constantinople not from the Greeks, but from the Byzantines.



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