> It's hard to enjoy and read the review at all when the author's blatant
> and obvious transphobia rears its ugly head in the very first sentence.
> It's abhorrent and disgusting. Trans women pick new names for a reason. We
> don't want to be reminded of our deadnames. Fucking disgusting.
In our day and age, Filmtracks.com and its heathens make us witnesses to radical changes taking place from the traditional Judaeo-Christian principles which have been guiding human behavior and consequently our Western society for several centuries. Filmtracks.com supports the normalcy of transgender identities, including the removal of male organs in order to experience new sexual desires. This is the abhorrent behavior you should be concerned about.
Transgender people selfishly and foolishly believe that they are above God. The concept that we belong to ourselves is in total contradiction to the teaching of the Holy Bible. This means that any transgender person cannot be in agreement with any part of Judaeo-Christian teachings as based on Holy Scripture. When a person radically changes one's appearance or disfigures one's sex organs, such a person can never be identified as an icon of Christ as Holy Scripture reminds us.
From the Holy Bible we read that we are icons of Christ, although distorted in one way or another. An icon, as we know, is a reflection of the prototype, the prototype being the Lord Jesus Christ. It should be known that the Septuagint Old Testament, which was translated from the original Hebrew language to the then international Greek language at least two hundred years before the Christian era began, was translated in Alexandria, Egypt by seventy-two Jewish theologians and is the same Holy Scriptures used today in the Greek Orthodox Church.
On the basis of this, if Orthodox Christians wish to remain faithful to their religious and ecclesiological history, as taught by the church, they must be faithful to the church teachings identifying themselves as icons of Christ. The Church must educate and discourage church members who change their gender or deliberately distort their appearances, believing that they have every right to create their own identity.
The Church has always taught that for one to find one’s true identity, such a person must try to emulate Christ the Lord through a life of prayer with love for God. Saint Paul is a perfect example of someone finding his true identity. Once he changed his lifestyle and sought the peace and love of God in his heart, he confidently and truthfully wrote, "I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me."
It must be agreed by all reasonable people that the radical changes which have been taking place concerning human behavior in our society is the fact that there is an absence of filial love and an increasing presence of the spirit of disagreement and anger among many people, even to the extremity of hatred. This is in total contradiction of the Judaeo-Christian teachings which confess that the perfect creation which God first established, as recorded in the book of Genesis, has been distorted. In its place one sees only dissentions, divisions, and disorder throughout human nature.
If people believe that they do not belong to a higher authority, but belong to themselves, then it can be said that the Lord Jesus Christ would not have bothered to come into the world to save humanity. From the teachings of Orthodox Christianity, He came because humans are His icons, although distorted. He came to bring perfection to humanity. On the feastday of the Samaritan Woman, which falls on a Sunday after the Resurrection of Christ from the dead, one reads in one of the prayers that Christ Who shares the throne with the Father and the Holy Spirit came into the world seeking His icon (humanity) to have it eternally celebrating, having been restored.
Consequently, on the basis of one being reasonable and intellectually accepting that each person is an icon of Christ, striving for perfection through free will, spiritual development, increased prayer and a moral way of life, one can find one’s true identity through the words of the Apostle Paul in his first epistle to the Corinthians (6:19,20) when he writes that, "you are not your own - therefore - glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God’s."
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