{"id":5140,"date":"2018-07-25T12:28:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T16:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5140"},"modified":"2018-07-12T08:29:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:29:42","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-unbelief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5140","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on Unbelief."},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9ti1k\" data-offset-key=\"1t92a-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1t92a-0-0\">&#8220;Everything evil today stems from not believing. In the past people believed in God; even the most indifferent ones had at least a bit of faith. Maybe people were simple; maybe they did not understand much of what they heard in church. Some didn\u2019t even know that the Gospels are four; some thought they were twelve, but what faith, what devotion they had! And the nurses what philotimo they had! So many of them went to war as volunteers! Having both faith and a sacrificial spirit, they were most helpful. Today someone told me that a patient was saying the Creed and the nurse struck him, thinking that he was doing some sort of magic! She didn\u2019t even know the Symbol of the Faith! What have we come to! Take young people and ask them \u201cWhat do you believe?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d they say, \u201c&#8221; Haven\u2019t decided yet.\u201d \u201cWhat is your parents\u2019 religion?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know. I haven\u2019t asked them.\u201d He wasn\u2019t at all interested in finding out his parents\u2019 religion! How can one who is so indifferent be helped?&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9ti1k\" data-offset-key=\"3agd4-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3agd4-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3agd4-0-0\">(Elder St Paisios in &#8216;Passions and Virtues&#8217;)<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"3agd4-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5141\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8546-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8546-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8546-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8546.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9ti1k\" data-offset-key=\"efhhe-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everything evil today stems from not believing. In the past people believed in God; even the most indifferent ones had at least a bit of faith. Maybe people were simple; [&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-5140","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\/5140","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=5140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5142,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions\/5142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}