From the sermon of St. Nikolai Velimirovich-On God-Created Inequality
"God creates inequality; men grumble at it. Are men wiser than God? When God creates inequality, it means that inequality is wiser and better than equality. God creates inequality for man’s good, but men cannot see the good in their inequality. God creates inequality because of the beauty of inequality, but men can see no beauty in it. God creates inequality out of love, that is aroused and sustained by inequality, but man can see no love in it."
And...
"Thus inequality is placed in the very foundations of the created world. We must rejoice at this inequality, and not rebel against it, for it is placed there by Love, not by hatred, by Understanding, not by folly. Human life is not made ugly by the absence of equality, but by the absence of love and spiritual understanding in men. Let us have more divine love and spiritual understanding of life, and we shall see that twice as much inequality would in no way lessen the blessedness given to men."
Full sermon HERE:
Also, a rather superb talk given by Dr. Mary Ford titled, "The Mystery of Male and Female." Given at a Touchstone Conference called, "Chastity, Purity, Integrity: Orthodox Anthropology and Secular Culture in the 21st Century."
Her talk is about 25 minutes. It is a resounding counter to the modern narrative regarding approaches to inequality, that deny reality, and the Christian solution.
Brian+
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