Empathy versus Pathology

The Church is based on Empathy, that is, on Love for all people in order to transform and transfigure us all. Empathy may be called an anti-ideology, for it follows the Word of God in the Book of Love. This is not composed of narrow human rules.

However, there is also Pathology, that is, that which is based on a self-justifying crutch which deforms and disfigures people. Pathology always hides behind an ideology, nationalist, political or psychiatric. That is composed of narrow human rules.

Pathological Bishops Replace Authentic Bishops

For example, in the 1980s there were three convert Orthodox archbishops in the Russian Church in Europe, two were sectarians, unable to accept the mainstream Orthodox Church, and the other an academic dreamer, only happy with his books, but who also pretended to be Russian. All of them were fake, ‘more Orthodox than the Orthodox’, on account of their inferiority complex of being born just before or when the Nazi regime came to power. Therefore, they had to seek a self-justifying crutch as their pathological ideology. They adopted the Russian Orthodox Church, behind which they tried to hide.

Today, we have to deal with bishops who suffer from a different pathology, that of being narcissistic closet homosexuals. Therefore, their actions are based on jealousy, filling them with hatred and vengeful punishment. As fakes, they always lose control, their jealousy of the normal become passive-aggressive, vindictive and spiteful, because of their sense of entitlement as ‘superior’, when in fact they are inferior. Once they have been seen through, they slander and malign, telling blatant lies. In denial of their reality, they choose the Orthodox Church as their pathological ideology, behind which they try to hide.

Theology not Pathology

The words of God are known as Theology. The words of man are known as Anthropology. But the words of sick men are known as Pathology. Those words do not belong to the Church, but belong to the psychiatric hospital. For from the pathological comes not healing, but the sickness of ideology.

Conversely, theology gives healing, as it answers the innermost questions of the soul, satisfying its spiritual needs. Only God can do this through His own, who reflect His Word like a mirror. For our task is to clean and polish the mirror of our souls, not to sully them with the sickness of ideology.