{"id":11448,"date":"2022-07-24T12:05:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T16:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11448"},"modified":"2022-07-03T08:06:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T12:06:08","slug":"elder-st-porphyrios-on-truly-winning-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11448","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Porphyrios on Truly Winning Debates\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In debates, if you say a few words about religion you will prevail. Let<\/p>\n<p>person who has a different opinion give free rein to his thoughts<\/p>\n<p>and speak as much as he likes&#8230; Let him sense that he is addressing<\/p>\n<p>himself to a calm and uncontentious person. Influence him through<\/p>\n<p>your graciousness and prayer and then speak briefly. You achieve nothing if you speak heatedly and tell him, for example, What you\u2019re saying<\/p>\n<p>-untrue, a downright lie!\u2019 What will you achieve? Be as sheep among<\/p>\n<p>wolves. What should you do? Show indifference outwardly, but be praying inwardly. Be prepared, know what you are talking about and speak<\/p>\n<p>boldly and to the point, but with saintliness, meekness and prayer. But<\/p>\n<p>in order to be able to do this you must become saints.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Love towards Christ is without limits, and the same is true of love to-<\/p>\n<p>wards our neighbor. It should radiate everywhere, to the ends of the<\/p>\n<p>earth, to every single person.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Wounded by Love<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11449\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GCK_5499-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GCK_5499-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GCK_5499-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GCK_5499-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GCK_5499-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GCK_5499.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In debates, if you say a few words about religion you will prevail. Let person who has a different opinion give free rein to his thoughts and speak as much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11451,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11448\/revisions\/11451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}