We Hunted the Mammoth, May 2025
Remember Roosh V? The repugnant far-right pickup artist who hated women and Jews, who proposed making rape legal on private property, and who had some unusually capacious notions of what counted as sexual consent? The guy who, after preaching his gospel of sexual predation for more than a decade, gave up his life of (by then mostly theoretical) debauchery and embraced Jesus after getting really, really high on mushrooms?
Not only did Roosh become a Christian; he became an Orthodox Christian. In 2019, Roosh joined the Armenian Apostolic Church, an Oriental Orthodox sect. Two years later, complaining that the church wasn’t “able to support my zeal with enough materials and resources that made me confident my soul would be guided into Paradise,” Roosh abandoned Oriental Orthodoxy for Eastern Orthodoxy (it’s all very complicated), getting baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), widely considered the most conservative and traditional of all the Orthodox sects.
