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Hello A.,
It really isn’t important in my eyes. The people speaking are saying what they think (and I believe that this really is what they think), and in my view that is completely legitimate. I also don’t see this as disrespect or an insult, since they genuinely think I am a heretic and believe this is an important and relevant discussion. I disagree with them on both points, but that is their position, and there is no reason they shouldn’t express it.
This is essentially the accepted approach that I argue against, and I don’t think it has much significance for the people for whom I write my words. This is an internal discourse of a camp for which my words are in any case irrelevant. I only hope that these are the death throes of that approach which had been dominant until our own day (within Orthodoxy). They are trying to present these new positions (mine) as something outside Orthodoxy in order to preserve the unity and uniformity of the camp, because they truly believe in that. In reality, the camp that defines itself as the camp will remain a marginal and irrelevant group that continues this discourse (which, as I said, I believe is sincere from their perspective) for its own internal needs. That is only to be expected, and they are fully entitled to it.
As for your question, I have no objection to your expressing a position there, but in my opinion it really isn’t important, and I certainly do not expect you to do so. Do whatever you think is right. It is possible that I will write a post about it on my site.
Everything is fine. No need to worry. There is no reason to take it to heart or to get angry. This is a legitimate expression of a position, and that position exists, so what would be gained by preventing them from expressing it?! That is exactly how an argument is conducted, and there is indeed a deep and substantive argument here. I am actually quite glad that I am provoking it and taking part in it, since that is precisely my goal.
All the best,