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I think the problem for couples today is that there are still huge social expectations surrounding a wedding: friends and family expect invitations and expect a big party, which takes lots of time and money to prepare for. Meanwhile, you're adults and expected to live on your own and make your...

That assumes you can see the moon through the smog. :D But yeah, I agree if the whole switched at once to a more correct calendar, that would be better.

Don't Orthodox nuns do the same? Even if they don't, plenty of virgin martyrs in our hagiographies speak of themselves as betrothed to Christ.

Well, not necessarily. The spousal relationship between Christ and the Church doesn't have sexual implications (connotations, perhaps).

Well, mother to the Son definitely. Daughter to the Father is I suppose correct insofar as we can all call God our Father. Spouse to the Holy Spirit I'm really not sure about; I've never heard of the Spirit having a spousal relationship with anyone or anything. The bride of Christ, of course, is...

The problem is that the church also mandated celebrating Pascha on the same dates. In practice, as we saw with Finland, the other churches aren't willing to break communion even over this. It seems they only care about the issue when groups in their own jurisdictions disagree with the reforms...

Even better would be a photo of the perps themselves...

Peeve: People who fawn over Caitlyn Jenner. OCD: Obsessively reading snarky takedowns of people who fawn over Caitlyn Jenner.

Thanks, Iconodule. I completely agree with OP that modern theologians are not the best go-to source on this issue. Too polemical.

Racist

Or in Orthodoxy's Stalin cultists.

Yeah, though you're also right that the developing world still has less adequate health care. The point is that even as our circumstances are vastly improved, we will still find something to worry about.

I thought the East Germans were just pumped full of male hormones to build muscle. Were they genetically aberrant as well?

I'm not talking about denying their experiences, but about distinguishing between their experiences and reality.

Raylight can correct me here, but what I think he's asking is whether the OT prophesied that the Messiah would come twice, rather than just one time. We believe the Messiah has already come, but that he will come again at the end of the world, whereas Jews are looking forward to just one coming...

I don't think that's what Raylight's getting at, but it's an interesting point.

Or anywhere. You know smallpox is completely eradicated, right? And the reason Africa's population is exploding is because they've stopped starving to death and dying from a zillion tropical diseases.

Because as long as we're talking about gender in such essentialist terms, it would be nice to ground those terms in something objectively verifiable and categorically distinct. Chromosomes seem to be the only such things around; everything else is too fluid or the categories overlap too much...

Good question.

It's not worth explaining.