Metropolitan Klemes of Larissa and Platamon | June 30, 2022
In our sorrowful days, the
prophetic word of the Apostle Paul is being fulfilled, that there shall be men
among those reputed as Shepherds of the Church who will speak perverse things,
distorting the Truth in order to deceive the many (cf. Acts 20:30). To this
category undoubtedly belongs a metropolitan of the New Calendar [Gabriel of Nea
Ionia and Philadelphia], who, in addition to his long-standing Ecumenist
activity and political connections, has grievously offended the Christian
conscience with his unacceptable views regarding homosexuality. This man dared
to attribute the homosexual inclinations of certain individuals to God
Himself—an utterly unacceptable and demonic thing!
For that which the eternal word
of God clearly considers a most grievous deviation, a dishonor, and a
shamelessness that brings condemnation and requires a special course of
repentance (cf. Lev. 18:22, 20:13; Rom. 1:26–27; 1 Cor. 6:26–27; the 7th and
62nd Holy Canons of St. Basil the Great; the 4th of Gregory of Nyssa; the 18th
of John the Faster, ratified by the second canon of the holy Sixth Ecumenical
Council), cannot be changed—no matter how much some may attempt to prove that
the meaning and application differ for contemporary “beloveds in a unique
relationship” who are homosexuals.
This serious affliction, as an
unnatural condition, is due to psychiatric and, more generally,
psychopathological problems. Hermaphroditism and certain hormonal or organic
disorders are referred for specialized treatment. But even the possibility of
biological causes—a matter that is debatable and extremely rare—does not
absolve the passionate nature of the problem nor the necessity for serious
treatment.
However, the one in question does
the unthinkable, emphasizing: “In reality, God has given some people the
feeling of attraction toward the same sex—I do not know why, I will not accuse
God… (Homosexuality) is a relationship which, if Christ is present in it, [can]
function somewhat more spiritually (with dignity, without many and alternating
partners)… A child has the right to choose his life, if he wants to become
homosexual… (Christ) came to save all people, regardless of what each one is…
The inclination toward the same sex exists. I do not know why it exists. When
God gives it, should I fight against it?...”
The evidently deliberate
distortion is so flagrant that one wonders at the magnitude of the
shamelessness being publicly propagated by a supposed ecclesiastical figure.
Will his ecclesiastical authority call him to order? Or will it cover things
up, as it did in the past regarding statements in favor of premarital relations
in a periodical of indecent content made by another like-minded daredevil?
In the above passage, debatable
modern views are echoed, and here the “moral instigator,” according to the said
distorter who seeks to give a spiritual veneer, is now none other than God
Himself! Perhaps what is concealed here is a Lutheran-origin exoneration of
this specific sin, which the Innovating cleric adopted from his many years of
involvement in gatherings of the “W.C.C.” in Geneva—where he frequented from
the time he was an archimandrite—and elsewhere. It is well known that
Protestant teachings have developed which tend to exonerate every sinful
perversion, since for them it is a matter of an ontological condition in man,
such that these may even receive institutional recognition as “individual
rights” and “natural functions.”
After all, we are in an
apocalyptic era of widespread Apostasy and universal rebellion of man against
the law of God. Moral decline culminates in a “perverted morality” and the
magnification of carnal passions and perversions, which in the Western world and
Western pseudo-Christianity find significant resonance; and this is because the
criterion has shifted from the God-man to fallen, unredeemed man—to the
fulfillment of his impure desires, to his luciferian self-deification, to his
schizophrenic pride, to his destructive slogan: “Do whatever you want, however
you want, with whomever you want”!...
Another high-ranking cleric from
a different continent—an archbishop of despair and calamity [Elpidophoros of
America]—put the seal on the aforementioned statements and rewarded a
homosexual couple by performing a supposed baptism of their children (!) in a
church in Attica recently; and afterwards, together with the like-minded
metropolitan from Greece, a hierarch of lawlessness, they concelebrated in an
Athonite Metochion (!) in Northern Greece, giving a particularly
“traditional tone” to their activities!... After all, their primates—of
Constantinople and of Athens—were festively feasting together in the capital of
Epirus, allegedly in honor of a contemporary, as they claim, Athonite
Elder-Saint!
In defiance of this sorrowful
collusion, in which today’s pseudo-Orthodox also partake, we remind that
according to the unparalleled interpreter of the divine word, Saint John
Chrysostom, “all passions are dishonorable, but especially the madness against
males” (Homily V on the Epistle to the Romans). Of such people he says: “I say
they are worse than murderers, for it is better to die than to live and be so
dishonored. For the murderer separated the soul from the body, whereas this one
destroyed the soul together with the body. And whatever sin you may name, you
will not name one equal to this lawlessness. And if those who suffer these
things were to feel them, they would accept countless deaths rather than to
endure this. ‘For there is not,’ he says, ‘there is not a more senseless and
grievous outrage than this!’”
So dreadful is the sin, continues
the holy Father, that it once caused even the Gehenna of hell to appear on
earth before its time, at the burning of Sodom.
Why do some reach such a
frightful downfall? The holy Father asks and answers with unyielding clarity:
from divine abandonment. Thus, some come to form a “satanic dogma” and a
“diabolical way of life.” Whatever departs from the laws set by God desires that
which is bizarre and repulsive—like one who, from intense thirst, even longs
for filth. So too, those who lust after males were cast out into this unlawful
passion. And this they suffer because of abandonment by God.
Therefore, what according to the
holy Chrysostom is divine abandonment is distortingly taken by the sorrowful
advocate of lawlessness, the New Calendarist metropolitan, as a divine bestowal
(!)… It is, evidently, a case of divine abandonment…
Our Savior Christ, of course, did
come to save all people, but from the very beginning He preached Repentance
unto the forgiveness of sins. His Church has room for all and forgives all,
provided that they renounce their evil self. All may be transformed in Christ,
through the Holy Spirit, provided that they forsake with “perfect hatred” the
passions of abomination. No one turns away the sinner, but neither is his sin
justified or beautified—if he is to be led to the knowledge of the truth, to
repentance, healing, and salvation.
If we accept that every impulse
and desire—even the most impure and shameless—is within man from God and that a
way must be found to satisfy it (even “with dignity”!), then we abolish the
work of salvation. Every passion is legitimized and absolved, and the Church of
Christ is transformed from a workshop of Holiness into an antechamber of
perdition!
Only when we speak and confess
the Truth do we remain true disciples of the Savior Christ. The divine word
stands and shall stand, and no distorter—whatever position he may hold—can
shake it; he simply falls into the abyss of falsehood and drags along those he
deceives.
Wishing repentance upon the
distorters, we recall the God-inspired and unshakable apostolic words: “Be not
deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,
nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor covetous, nor thieves, nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God” (1
Cor. 6:9–10).
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