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>Prelest, also known as spiritual delusion, spiritual deception, delusion, illusion,according to the Holy Fathers of the Eastern Orthodox Church, a false spiritual state, a spiritual illness, "a wounding of human nature by falsehood"a man's assimilation of falsehood as truth (Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov)
>When the word "prelest' or "plani" is used in the narrow sense, i.e., that some particular person is in the state of prelest, that usually means that this person, initially being on the path of pious Christian life, became possessed with the strongest pride and self-conceit right up to the thought about personal sanctity. To consider oneself a saint-this is a clear prelest because the closer one is to God, the more he sees his imperfections and all true Saints considered themselves in the feeling of the heart the greatest sinners.
In America, due to the proliferation of Protestantism and vague "spirituality" (and tap water) there is many examples of prelest you can see. Granted, some of them might be mental illness, but you don't become mentally ill out of nowhere.
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I think the biggest issue in American protestant were the puritans. They were too much of pearl-clutches and because of that the culture swung back hard in the opposite direction.
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not reading allat
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True
It's like Kenneth Copeland being so obviously evil that you can just see it on his face but he does it for his "Megachurch in the name of Christ Jesus"
Yeah, the private jet will get you into heaven.
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>>2699694tsmt Puritans are a split of the Anglican church which are a split of the Catholic church which split off from the Orthodox church. It's down 3 splits in churches and you have a small isolationist group of people who consider themselves better than everybody else, the first Americans were protestant extremists. Not going to say "witch trials" because that's just people using religion as a guise to kill people they don't like
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>>2699694TBF puritans were the first people here so it's only natural that their religion proliferates
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>>2699735west alpinid devil man with red skin and a goblin grin
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>>2699735Skinwalker phenotype
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groyper phenotype
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Nephilim phenotype