Is Orthodoxy now synonymous with the ‘extreme right’? An interesting question.

1) First, the Fordhamites wielding this question have no standing to ask it. Their agenda is anti-Orthodox to the core.

2) Before anyone is quick to deny the accusation, you have to understand what people mean when they say “extreme right”. These people would regard the policies of a HUGE number of historical states and political factions as ‘extreme right’

3) It would include, paradoxically, many policies of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Tsarist Russia, Constantinople, Ancient Egypt, even the USA of the 1950s. Obviously Orthodoxy cannot be synonymous with all these things consistently.

4) in the era of hyper-progressivism, when the world is slipping faster and faster into an openly satanic current of life, the range of positions held by ‘the left’ is very narrow, the ‘extreme left’ practically microscopic.

5) Meanwhile the number of positions on social issues to economics which are regarded as ‘extreme right’ expands to terrifying proportions. Protest all you like, the fact is that media opposing abortion is just as ‘extreme right’ as Der Sturmer today.

6) the answer then has to be that Orthodoxy is synonymous with AN ‘extreme right’, but only one of many. In this, it finds company in Catholicism, Islam, Hinduism, any traditional religion whose tenets reflected a way of thinking scarcely conceivable today.

7) As such, the synonym applies only to Orthodoxy’s political application, which is reflected in the range of state Orthodox policies of the last 2000 years. Beyond this, “right” and “left” have no application.