On the Origins of Modern Godlessness
By St. Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol and All Crimea
(Delivered on February 27, 1948 -
Friday of the Week of the Publican and the Pharisee)
By St. Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol and All Crimea
(Delivered on February 27, 1948 -
Friday of the Week of the Publican and the Pharisee)
You know what the Jews, the contemporaries of Christ, said: “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” (John 1:46).
It was about Him. And when the Lord came to Nazareth, where He grew up, where He was brought up, there people treated Him with contempt, did not consider Him a saint or a prophet, and said: “After all, we know that this is the son of the carpenter Joseph.” A significant part of the human race still treats the Savior with the same contempt - that portion that was once Christian, but now has become apostate. Why, why? Precisely because the teaching of Christ is extremely simple, so simple that it is accessible to the understanding of the simplest, most uneducated person.
And proud people scorn everything simple, lowly, while people bow before what they consider great and significant. And because of their pride, because of their arrogance, they do not want to know the Lord Jesus Christ, they have chosen other teachers, other leaders.
