A Website Transfigured

The previous content for this domain name contained the message of a manufactured church based on race. This was offensive for two reasons: I am of German descent and I am an Orthodox Christian. National Socialism of the 1930s and 1940s was an aberration of German culture; a political ideal based on race and an invented German romanticism. A racially exclusive church based on these failed and evil ideas cannot be truly German, nor can it be Orthodox. Also, an Orthodox church cannot be invented or "started" by individuals. It must be an organic extension of one of the ancient Churches as evidenced by apostolic succession, adherence to the accepted theology, and being "in Communion" with the other Orthodox Churches. In case you are wondering what used to be at GermanOrthodoxChurch, you can read it at the following website

http://aggreen.net/other_orthodox/other.html (now defunct)

The website above is a directory of various independent liturgical churches and bishops. Almost halfway down it mentions a group called the German Orthodox Church. The directory maintains some of the text that was part of the old website. I will not reproduce it here.

The former owners of GermanOrthodoxChurch most likely misunderstood the religious practice of Eastern immigrants to America and therefore misundertstood the nature of Orthodoxy. They assumed that Orthodox belief was intrinsically organized around ethnicity; an idea which would be appealing to people wanting to wrap their racialist theories withij religious language. 

Read the following article regarding the Heresy of Racism... http://incommunion.org/?p=263