We must insist on bringing back moral laws.We must insist on strong families(as we had patriarchal Orthodox tradition)..
What do you mean by "insist" ?
I think it depends on each specific family actions.
If husband and wife believe that they should have traditional family and many children, they just do it, no matter what society says about it.
Strong family means that it is started and organized on moral values given by G-d.It's not necessary to have a lot of kids,but the essence of good man's(G-d devoted man) life is to create more good people(and that includes friends,too).It cannot be done in today's selfish atheist communities called "marriages".Let's face the truth...many of today's marriages are made because of need for physical/body pleasures(sex) and not because of creating another good men and women.And then,very quickly those "marriages" fall apart because it was started on wrong bases.
We are talking about slightly different aspects. You are talking about the essence of the problem. I agree with your view on this.
What I'm trying to say is that the solution of the problem is more dependent on the specific families and and less on changing the society as a whole.
If a both groom and bride understand this, they shouldn't wait until all their friends and the whole society change their ways.
They should marry and build the traditional family based on values of G-d. They should look for the families with the same values and make friendships with them not to feel isolated from the other people.
Imo in this case, individual actions is the cause and changing of society is the effect, and not vice versa.
You didn't understand me.I'm not talking about ANY WAITING!Changes are made if every individual do it in practice.So,when I talk about insisting on strong families,I say that we must insist that everyone make a change,stop destructive ways.
But,that's not possible for majority,because majority lives in system which is 101% secular(anti-God) atheist system.So,the system has to be changed.It needs to stop making conditions and proclaiming destructive ways of life.
And the system could be changed only if moral men(and in some spheres women also) insist on the values and are persistent enough in its surroundings on the issue.
If we do nothing and just sit and watch,nothing is going to change,just to get worse and worse(like it is happening).
I'll give an example which I consider as main problem why Serbian society is weakening every day.
We can see from Israeli history that religious,God devoted, men were gathering in synagogues not only to pray to God,but to solve the local problems.Those men were in charge of their communities,they were asked about every major issue in local societies(like villages,towns...).
Now,in Serbian history Churches were places where religious men did the same things.Churches were places where problems were solved based on moral laws.
Today,majority of Churches became places where people gathers for many reasons(like expressing respect for tradition or only a prayers),but not the main reason,and that's education of Biblical science(theology) and implementation of it in practice-in real life.There are no solving problems as God told us it should be done!Those kind of situations are merely in cities and larger urban places.The situation is little better in smaller places,like villages.
And responsibility for this situation is on priests,too.They aren't doing a thing to change something and to worn the people of destructive life,because they're afraid of losing "believers".And because of this,we have extremely large number of liberal priests who aren't going to tell a thing to the people that they are doing wrong.But instead,we have a mass ecumenist movemant in Orthodox Church,just like in Russian Orthodox Church(new Russian Patriarch Kiril is ultra-ecumenist),so the result of it is signing the Ravena Document where our Church expressed the will for "unification" with Vatican and obeying to Pope.
The main thing for many priests today is that the Church has more "believers" so they could collect more money!Unfortunately,it's the truth!
Because of weakening of our Church as immune system in society(as it always was),society is also weakening.No immune system-no health.
That's why we have to insist on the things I've mentioned in earlier post.
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