thread_prefix.19 General christian thread

Aedra said:
The Turkish Orthodox here prefer the very first translation of the Bible into Turkish which was done in 1665-66 or so. It is called Kitab-ı Mukaddes or İncil-i Şerif. Translated by Ali Ufki Bey. (Wojciech Bobowski) Obviously the Ottoman Turkish of the time uses very archaic words and it's in arabic script. We don't read it in the Arabic script as there are versions of it in latin script available but the archaic words are still there of course. I kinda find it charming though, Ottoman Turkish was a really beautiful language.
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This is what it looks like in Arabic script. And the following is Psalm 51 in latin script but still in Ottoman Turkish.
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Wait, you are an orthodox turk?
 
Aedra said:
The Turkish Orthodox here prefer the very first translation of the Bible into Turkish which was done in 1665-66 or so. It is called Kitab-ı Mukaddes or İncil-i Şerif. Translated by Ali Ufki Bey. (Wojciech Bobowski) Obviously the Ottoman Turkish of the time uses very archaic words and it's in arabic script. We don't read it in the Arabic script as there are versions of it in latin script available but the archaic words are still there of course. I kinda find it charming though, Ottoman Turkish was a really beautiful language.
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This is what it looks like in Arabic script. And the following is Psalm 51 in latin script but still in Ottoman Turkish.
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Weirdly specific
 
Imperator said:
Woah, I don't know what to say, how is life as an orthodox christian in turkey?
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It's like any other really. Even the most hardcore Muslims in Turkey tend to be tolerant enough as long as you keep your faith to yourself. The only issue is being constantly lonely and misunderstood. I'm in the middle of a culture war where I don't quite belong to either side, you have the muslims and you have the secularists fighting over everything. I noticed there's a strange atheism/deism to Christianity pipeline for certain Turks, the kinds of Turks who were raised in secular, soulless families eventually end up ditching Islam and despite having no prior exposure, some of them somehow end up finding Christianity. There's really no telling how many of us there are but I know we're growing. Specifically Orthodoxy is growing. I converted in this way, I stopped believing Islam from a young age but except for a brief period of atheism I never felt like God didn't exist, I just felt like the true God couldn't be the Islamic God. I was then tired of this topic and decided to be a simple deist for a few years, I basically had the idea that there was a God, he was good but didn't interfere with anything. I think it all clicked together once I found Orthodoxy, I was convinced immediately and converted.
 
Aedra said:
It's like any other really. Even the most hardcore Muslims in Turkey tend to be tolerant enough as long as you keep your faith to yourself. The only issue is being constantly lonely and misunderstood. I'm in the middle of a culture war where I don't quite belong to either side, you have the muslims and you have the secularists fighting over everything. I noticed there's a strange atheism/deism to Christianity pipeline for certain Turks, the kinds of Turks who were raised in secular, soulless families eventually end up ditching Islam and despite having no prior exposure, some of them somehow end up finding Christianity. There's really no telling how many of us there are but I know we're growing. Specifically Orthodoxy is growing. I converted in this way, I stopped believing Islam from a young age but except for a brief period of atheism I never felt like God didn't exist, I just felt like the true God couldn't be the Islamic God. I was then tired of this topic and decided to be a simple deist for a few years, I basically had the idea that there was a God, he was good but didn't interfere with anything. I think it all clicked together once I found Orthodoxy, I was convinced immediately and converted.
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Great testimony brother
 
Aedra said:
It's like any other really. Even the most hardcore Muslims in Turkey tend to be tolerant enough as long as you keep your faith to yourself. The only issue is being constantly lonely and misunderstood. I'm in the middle of a culture war where I don't quite belong to either side, you have the muslims and you have the secularists fighting over everything. I noticed there's a strange atheism/deism to Christianity pipeline for certain Turks, the kinds of Turks who were raised in secular, soulless families eventually end up ditching Islam and despite having no prior exposure, some of them somehow end up finding Christianity. There's really no telling how many of us there are but I know we're growing. Specifically Orthodoxy is growing. I converted in this way, I stopped believing Islam from a young age but except for a brief period of atheism I never felt like God didn't exist, I just felt like the true God couldn't be the Islamic God. I was then tired of this topic and decided to be a simple deist for a few years, I basically had the idea that there was a God, he was good but didn't interfere with anything. I think it all clicked together once I found Orthodoxy, I was convinced immediately and converted.
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Well that's very interesting, is not everyday you hear about christian turks.
BTW I heard there weren't many churches in turkey, is this true?
 
Inb4 Hagia Sophia
I heard they planned on reoppening it as a mosque, that true ?
 
Nihilma said:
Inb4 Hagia Sophia
I heard they planned on reoppening it as a mosque, that true ?
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Tu est en retard, ça fait un baille que l'hagia sophia est redevenu une mosqué.
 
Imperator said:
Well that's very interesting, is not everyday you hear about christian turks.
BTW I heard there weren't many churches in turkey, is this true?
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There aren't many but I'll have you know that the Turkish government built a church last year.. For the first time in the republic's history in fact. The demand is there.
Nihilma said:
Inb4 Hagia Sophia
I heard they planned on reoppening it as a mosque, that true ?
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It's been used as a Mosque since 2020, it was mostly a populist move on Erdoğan's side tbh.
 
Aedra said:
There aren't many but I'll have you know that the Turkish government built a church last year.. For the first time in the republic's history in fact. The demand is there.

It's been used as a Mosque since 2020, it was mostly a populist move on Erdoğan's side tbh.
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Do you think turkey has a chance of going into the christian path after so many years of islam?
 
Man fuck mudzies, where are the cops when they are vandalising churches?
 
Do modern christians believe in witchcraft? Like having sex with satan and shiet and Making women give birth to hideous monster babies?
 
Imperator said:
>That's how social democrats and progressives are born.
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JC Denton said:
Do modern christians believe in witchcraft? Like having sex with satan and shiet and Making women give birth to hideous monster babies?
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"Believe" as in believing that witchcraft and interactions with demons is possible? Certainly, I'd say it's very much existent, and very much wrong, for the Bible makes clear what God thinks of magick-doers. When the Ephesians embraced Christ, as it is written in Acts, a sign of their conversion and acceptance of God was their burning of their massive amount of books of sorcery that they had in their possession. This stuff is certainly real, and certainly evil.
>Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices. And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver. So the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily.
 
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