u/Obvious-Desk4573

I've heard about this concept mainly in Roman Catholic contexts. For those unaware, it is the concept that being in some places or being with some people can cause you to sin by virtue of human weakness to sin. For example, a man entering a strip club would be entering into an occasion of sin, even if he had no money to purchase any 'services' there.

On Wikipedia, it is said that this concept is taught in Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism and Methodism. Since I find this concept quite interesting and spiritually helpful, my questions are:

• Is this concept also taught in Orthodoxy?
• Did any Church Fathers or saints discuss this concept, directly or indirectly?
• Where can I read more about it in a Orthodox context?

Thanks in advance!

So there was a user (who was also a mod on one sub) who I noticed posted very hateful and inflammatory comments on several subs I frequented and he eventually got banned from Reddit as a whole.

Eventually, I found a similar account posting on the same subs that had a perfectly identical display name, banner image, account description and profile picture, only the username was a truncated version of the previous banned account's username.

I tried to report this account directly for ban evasion but none of the five options are "ban evasion". I am 100% certain this is the same person behind the account that got banned, so is there anyway of reporting this user for ban evasion?

Person A gets criticised by Person B for doing something immoral (e.g. stealing). Person A responds by stating "Well at least I didn't commit murder!" as their defence. What fallacy or fallacies is this?

Some context:

I live in Southern Europe. In my country's language, it is a common practice not only to use the Lord's (and saints') names in vain but to even directly curse God and saints, particularly the Virgin Mary (e.g. "May Saint X be damned!" ) when something goes wrong or not in the way a person wants. This is something done by a great majority of the people in my country, both Christian (specifically, Roman Catholic) and non-Christian.

I am absolutely certain that most people do not really mean it, 'merely' using it as an expression, but it doesn't make it right either. In the last few years I have done the following when hearing such casual blasphemies:

• Say nothing and ignore it (most common option, especially if I heard it said by strangers I'm not talking to)
• Reply "Don't curse/blaspheme" after hearing it, to poor results (i.e. the person continues to casually blaspheme after hearing my wish)

Of the people who I'm closest with, whom also blaspheme regularly, they are all aware that I am a practising believer and take issue with it. Is there any way I can get them to listen or will I have to get to more drastic measures, e.g. threatening to end our friendship if they continue to blaspheme?

I'm well aware of two quotes by Saints John Chrysostom and Gabriel of Georgia, the former stating to physically attack blasphemers to get them to stop, and the latter says that staying silent in the face of blasphemy makes you worse than the blasphemer. These quotes weigh on my conscience a lot. Thanks and God bless.

Stuff like:

"Copy and send this message to 10 of your friends. we want to see how far we can travel the world by message, this started in Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦"

A brief horror story ended by the words, "Send this to 5 of your friends or else you will receive 20 years of bad luck from [the story's scary main character]"

I remember I saw on Instagram a clip of a bunch of teenagers and adults in a school hallway all having (or about to have) severe diarrhea, wincing while holding their stomachs, nothing too graphic thankfully but it was clear what was happening. The caption stated something like "the cafeteria fruit punch was poisoned with laxatives, everyone drank it and the toilet stalls are all full..."

It was presented as if it happened in real life, then I looked in the comments where a bunch of users said the clip comes from a movie which, if I remember correctly, the main characters were bullied by much or all of the school and as revenge they decided to do exactly this. This clip apparently takes place as the climax.

Most of the details here I can't say I remember them for certain, but what I can remember most certainly was that it was a mass laxative poisoning of an entire school population and chaos ensues.