Controversial Orthobro Jay Dyer attacks "histrionic women Catholic saints". In the commentary section, somebody named Walter Flocker comments:
>>>I wrote my PhD on a late medieval Roman Catholic mystical text and that is a major reason why I chose to become Orthodox instead of RC. When you know the tradition well you become incredibly disconcerted by what you see in it. Beguines describing being caressed by Christ, visions of melting into the trinity (no essence energies distinction so RC mystics articulate a literal merging into the Godhead) even accounts of making love to Jesus by the likes of Mechtild of Magdeburg and Hadewijch.
>>>Even classics of RC mystical theology like the Imitation of Christ, which begins with the necessity of repentance, humility, charity etc. (all good things) goes off the deep end in its final chapters, describing mystical union with Christ through erotic terminology. Eroticism, speaking for Jesus, annihilationism (the loss of self identity) these are all common tropes of late medieval RC spirituality/mysticism. When I became acquainted with the Orthodox doctrine of Prelest I could finally make sense of what was wrong with all of this. I haven't looked back since.
Should I or you tell them about the "fools in Christ"?
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