ORTHODOXY AS A TEMPTATIONMetropolitan of Nafpaktos and St. Blaise Hierotheos, Metropolitan of Nafpaktos

Translation from Modern Greek by Vladimir Telizhenkohttp://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/russian/telijekno_scandalo.html

During the period of public and church temptations and temptations, the Church celebrated the holiday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy. Lately, various people have been trying to analyze the Orthodox faith and life, and some of them present Orthodoxy as a religion or a kind of perfect religious ideology that can help modern man: in essence, so that he closes himself even more in his individuality. It must be said that all religious ideologies and all religious sects do the same. In the end, the Orthodox Church is a temptation, especially for modern man who wants to use any ideology, even religious, for selfish and utilitarian purposes. The Greek word is temptation, or scandal, etymologically hints at a snare and trap that some enemy is preparing. In addition, this word means temptation, obstacle. In this sense, Orthodoxy is a temptation for those who do not know its inner depth and its inner fullness: it is and all the time becomes a snare, a snare, an obstacle and a stumbling block.