Michael Witcoff (alias @brotheraugustine ) is an author and oblate of the Eastern Orthodox faith. He shares about his path from atheist Jew to pick-up artist and dabbler in chaos magick, to a life of devotion to the Christian faith. He’s got a lot of work out there so do check him out via
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One of my favorite professors at Hillsdale College was Fr. Andrew Cuneo, who was back then a clean shaven Stanford and Oxford educated literature professor rather than his current bearded Orthodox form. Although I had to correct him in arrogant undergraduate fashion on some things regarding French symbolist poets, he was a good egg and one of the nicest people I have ever met. I ended up marrying a Russian from an orthodox Christian family and got to visit some churches in Russia including the Church on the Blood in Yekaterinburg, a church built at the site where the last of the Romanovs were brutally killed by the Bolsheviks. I’m an atheist myself, but I think if I were to become religious I would lean in the direction of Eastern Orthodoxy. They seem to have something going on in which is somehow more humble and at the same time pious and traditional than other sects. You can find a video on YT of Fr. Andrew if you search “Andrew Cuneo Remembering Paradise”. It is worth a watch.
Yes, I love Paul Vanderklay. His Barbie video was masterful, and witty …Peter Pan for women
Growing up Roman Catholic we never really prayed to saints, we studied them as examples of strong Christians from all walks of life. You can always find a saint out there who had a very similar life to yourself. Roman Catholicism is a broad tent as they say. Admittedly a lot of your more folky Catholicism seems to flirt with paganism. You definitely develop a strong reverence for Mary being Catholic. I can understand how a lot of it seems pretty weird to Protestants. I imagine it’s similar with Eastern Orthodox. The core of my Christianity is based on my personal relationship with Christ and regularly reading the gospels. The way I see it, no denomination is going to get it completely right. Definitely want to learn more about Eastern Orthodox and their saints/church doctors. Enjoying the conversation 👍
Really liked Michael’s discussion of couples, children and God’s providence 👍
So hes like a male feminist. He concludes he must be evil because males are evil and hes male. He's not a male feminist but thats his logic. He needs to work on his grasp of syllogism.
Benjamin looks like a man in his 30s, not 47!
I am Greek Orthodox. Now interview a Greek theologian. This guy is lacking in understanding on so many levels. He is kind of like a puritan. LOL. In regards to the BLM march, our archbishop was there right after George Floyd. We saw it as a stand against injustice. No one at the time knew that the founder of BLM was a Marxist or buying houses. Greeks don't want racism. Look at our history. We were the ones discriminated against (by Ottomans). So this is close to our hearts. Also, women are very valued in the Church. Who gave birth to Christ? People fast and go to church every day for a week for Mary.
Chaos Magic seems quite post-modern in it's practical and ad-hoc nature, but it's all about concrete work.
Your magic must result in a work of art. There's no other point.
May Pope Pete bless 50% of y'all with a fractal vision of your optimal future.
Yech! Homophobia is hard to hear…
Wonder why he did deepen his understand of Judaism instead? There's a lot there.
Correct to use "sodomizing". I am amazed at how EASILY over the decades, as the alphabet agenda was shoved down our throats, how some of the most trad-speaking conservative people that were close to me became spokespeople for sodomy.
LOL Benjamin wants the freedom of the non-Abrahamic (oooh those Eastern pagan) Faiths but sounds like a closet Muslim.
As is typical, conservative people of Abrahamic religions completely and conveniently misconstrue ontology/concept of God in ALL religions not Abrahamic. It almost seems deliberate and it's DEFINITELY deeply prejudiced and bigoted.
Boyce! Please reach out to Scott Han!!! Have ALL your questions about Jesus and Catholic faith answered!!! This is NOT an interview suggestion. It’s a personal discovery suggestion. There’s not a better person for you to talk to than Dr Scott Han! 😘👍
Was baptized this year! 🕯🕯☦🕯🕯
The "Puppies are cute"/BLM analogy was pretty good. Thanks BA
Will definitely be listening to this.
Uncle Benjamin! I am a Catholic who flirts with islamic thought – Arabi and what not … if God is unlimited in the most absolute sense – then he can of course, transend his unlimitation into a limited form.. into a man. I hope you have touched base with the bridge between sufi thought and Catholicism in Meister Ekhart. Love ya uncle Ben! (To the degree a paeasocial relationship can allow and is appropriate)
interesting guy, seems to have been all over the spiritual/religious world!
Benjamin you would be a fit to Orthodoxy.
47! You look 30.
good interview. but i would definitely be violently opposed to this dude's utopia.
This person is still very Jewish, but apparently he is in denial or just ignorant. The thing is, you never leave your original culture behind; it is impossible.
What happened to the latest video? Has it been taken down recently?
Great conversation, Benjamin! Also, the digital gestapo removed your other recent video. 🙁
Aghh, the apparatchiks just took down your Canadian pandemic response video
look up Joshua Schooping for the truth on EO theology
Benjamin where is ur video interviewing that Qanon woman that made us all go hmmmmmm maybe Qanon is true???
Have been enjoying your show since your Evergreen series and followed you over to Spotify!
Benjamin you fully know BLM is satanic don’t play
Protestants are a clown show 😮😂
Wow I try not to follow the Russia/Ukraine bc it’s beyond my knowledge and I have no clue what is true, but I didn’t know about the setting up a fake Orthodox Church in Ukraine and the real church being persecuted