I was asked about my thoughts on this video right here:
youtube.com/watch?v=AOybOfZCIPA
First off, he rambles too much and should have written up manuscript. Oh well.
Second, he's correct to say that too many of our guys are renouncing everything to go live like they're monks. One of the reasons for this is that these guys are looking for authenticity and thinking they found it in Trad (tm) denominations with monastic writers. In their minds, the more ancient sounding and profound, the more authentic; nothing could be further from the truth, as they ought to be spending lots of time with the LAITY and their irl priests instead of going down rabbit holes and arguments online.
Alas, the problem is that they want to renounce and they're looking for whatever thing will permit that renunciation. Trad (tm) denoms appeal to that by storing up writings and practices that let them do that.
Let me put it more succinctly. You want more knights instead of monks? Go to the Protestants. You want radtrads and orthobros to go in the direction of knights? Have them spend more time with laity and less time online.
SuperLutheran
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