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The poison of a scorpion (Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis)

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Slander is false accusation. Slanderers are liars and their tongue is like the poison of the scorpion, and hates the truth. Slanderers are unrepentant in what they do, they make up lies and attack one and all. They’re even happier when their work prospers. Slander has gripped young and old, rulers and potentates.

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The Consequences of Rationalism in our Life (Archimandrite Athanasios (Anastasiou), Former Abbot of the Holy Monastery of the Great Meteora)

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We might define rationalism as excessive dependence on our reason, its elevation to the supreme authority and absolute value. It’s a culpable attitude of mind and outlook on life rather than a simple sin. Essentially, it’s lack of faith. Rationalism is the most typical and insidious expression of pride, which underlies all our sins, invades all our actions and poisons all our good works. It leads to self-justification and, in the end, to an unrepentant attitude, which closes the door on God’s mercy. Pride is the beginning and end of all evils. According to the late Elder Sophrony, at Essex, pride ‘is the permanent threat to human life’; ‘it lies at the root of all the tragedies of the ...

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