Danger of Internet Fundamentalism ☝️

Added: 2026-06-04

[00:00:00]Your Eminence, in your November address, you used striking language calling internet fundamentalism a new heresy.

[00:00:07]Can you unpack what specifically concerns you about how Orthodoxy is being represented online and what you'd say to a young American who's been catechized primarily through YouTube?

[00:00:17]>> Yes, Jonathan.

[00:00:20]Let us say first fundamentalism is not bad word.

[00:00:26]To be fundamentalist, according to the language, it means to come back to the origins.

[00:00:35]To come back to your root is not bad thing. It's good thing.

[00:00:40]But fundamentalism, as it is used today, it mean rigidity.

[00:00:47]It means strict people, closed-minded people.

[00:00:52]The danger of fundamentalism movement now is many maybe they don't know what they are doing. Many tell the Holy Spirit be away. Okay, aside. Get aside of us.

[00:01:14]Uh we know everything.

[00:01:17]You taught us in the past and we have all the rules.

[00:01:24]And then we don't need you more.

[00:01:29]In In depths, this is the meaning of fundamentalism.

[00:01:34]Because when I am fundamentalist man, I can't differentiate between what is essence and what is expression of this essence.

[00:01:50]What is the Holy Tradition and what is different local traditions with small t, not big T.

[00:02:03]This is the danger of fundamentalism.