Tuesday, February 17, 2015

ROCOR's Statement on Brother Nathanael

Youtube makes recommendations on what to watch if you have an account. Fortunately you can turn them off by clicking on the three dot marker and clicking Not Interested. Today I was shown a recommendation for an anti-Semitic video rant from someone calling himself Brother Nathanael and dressed up like a Halloween cardboard version of an Orthodox monk. I think I was probably shown this due to some crazy white supremacist videos I'd watched defending Hitler's murder of millions several months ago. I commented on one, saying something like "Poor wittle Hitler, just weacting to histowical events...." to which someone replied "F**K YOU". Funny.


Googling Brother Nathanael brought up this page which gives you the score on the guy. Basically he's a whack-job who only poses as some sort of monk or Orthodox Christian religious leader. Excerpt:

Though I have never posted anything specifically on Brother Nathaniel on this website, I have received dozens of emails over the past few years asking about him. I informed people of what I knew about him from those who personally have known him, all of which were very disturbing things.

Among the things I was informed about and have now been documented online in various sources, is that he is a man with mental problems (pleasant on his medication though very unpleasant when not) who has caused enough disturbances in a few monasteries in America so that he was kicked out of all of them, at least once by police. He is not and never was a monk. He was a novice in an Old Calendarist monastery in Colorado, but was kicked out of there too. He claims to be a legitimate monk from a legitimate Orthodox monastery, but this is not true. He is in fact a showman who likes to be the center of attention with a persecution complex, though he is well off financially after being successful in business. He is fixated on his Jewish heritage, a sort of love/hate relationship, and obsessed with conspiracy theories that more often than not come out as anti-semitic poisonous rants. He also wears a white skuphos which is only reserved for Metropolitans in the Slavic churches, and a pectoral cross which is forbidden to novices.

If you have some extra time, read that David Abel link. Wow.

So this confirms that the guy is nuts and not any type of official representative of any Christian church whatsoever. The post also includes this official missive from ROCOR which I find highly amusing.

The Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia has recently received repeated complaints about the activities of and statements made by a certain Nathanael (Kapner), who lives on the territory of the Western American Diocese, but has no relation to it.

The clergymen and laity of the Russian Church Abroad are hereby informed that the actions of Nathanael (Kapner) do not have the blessing of the Synod of Bishops.

Profoundly saddened by the state of his soul, we call upon Nathanael (Kapner) to refrain from posting on the Internet, to a life of repentance of peace in Christ, “where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all” (Colossians 3:11).

+KYRILL,
Archbishop of Western America and San Francisco

Secretary of the Synod of Bishops.

July 17, 2013

Yes, we concur. Plus: ditch the costume, go take your frickin' meds, and please don't tell us you built a time-machine out of a DeLorean.

6 comments:

  1. You people are so judgemental and critical. I have watched dozens of Nathaneals videos and their is not one thing on their that he says that is untrue. Furthermore, our Lord Jesus Christ was accused of being a nut by the spiritual leaders of his time and Jesus also greatly condemned and exposed the Jews. Brother Nathaneal is helping thousands of people on youtube and online.

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    1. Hey, Brother Nathaniel! Thanks for turning up and commenting. Now please go take your meds.

      You're welcome.

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    2. Pauli is using a cointel pro tactic. "Take your meds" is a standard harrassment threat against political dissidents.

      The threat is that one may be incarcerated and permanently drugged against ones will unless one refrains from speaking.

      Watch his vids and youll see hes qjite sane, quirky to be sure, but quite intelligent.

      We live in dark times when truth tellers are threatened under ndaa, sispa, patriot act, etc.

      God help America.

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    3. Then there is also the line "You need to work harder, boy," which I say to many of my sons and which I'm sure slave owners used to say to their slaves in a more threat-laden and harrassing (sic) manner.

      He has some intelligence, but I think it is more charitable to see him as a troubled paranoiac in need of real help. In which case I should probably be more compassionate and gentle. But prejudice and anti-semitic obsession are very hard for normal people to get past.

      Also noteworthy: I have told a friend of mine that he needs to take his meds because... well, he really does. Every 2 years or so he goes off them, freaks out and ends up living in a truck stop, threatening to kill someone, or destroying a relative's house. It has nothing to do with a government conspiracy and everything to do with chemical imbalance.

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  2. Brother Nathanael is in fact a member of ROCOR.

    http://www.brothernathanaelfoundation.org/pics/BNAffirm.png

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  3. Brother Nut-thaneal is a joke. He's a conspiracy theorists of the worst kind posing as an Orthodox Monk and leading astray unwitting Orthodox Layity. Only the father can judge him...

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