Cults Within & Without, by Archpriest Alexey
All the typos and misspellings from the Orthodox Christian Information Center have been corrected by me. From "Orthodox America" (number 139) by Archpriest Alexey For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. (II Tim. 4:3). In his monumental work, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, written more than two hundred years ago, Edward Gibbon perfectly depicted the religious polytheism of American society in the following description of ancient Rome: The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman Empire were all considered by the people as equally true.... Rome was incessantly filled with subjects and strangers from every part of the world, who all introduced and enjoyed the favorite superstitions of their native country.... Their love of the marvelous and supernatural, their ...