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Anσnymσus Posts Allowed / Re: Reputations of Eastern Orthodoxy
« Last post by ihsv on Today at 01:28:55 PM »After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Patriarchs of that city have lived in complete subjugation to their Turkish overlords, even to this day. The Patriarchates of Alexandria and Antioch shared a similar fate. Moscow was made a patriarchate by Constantinople in 1589, was suppressed under Tsar Peter the Great in 1721, being replaced by "The Holy Synod" (under complete government control), and later resurrected in 1917 in time for the communist revolution.
None of them have any missionary spirit, since under the Turks they were forbidden to evangelize. That only seems to have changed now, not because the Greeks are worthy of attention, but because of the catastrophe of the current crisis. In other words, the Novus Ordo church is so bad, it makes the Greeks look good. No one would seriously consider the Orthodox as a viable option in 1950. The main reason people are struggling with it now is because they don't believe the words of Christ: "Thou art Peter, and upon this Rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall never prevail against it."
None of them have any missionary spirit, since under the Turks they were forbidden to evangelize. That only seems to have changed now, not because the Greeks are worthy of attention, but because of the catastrophe of the current crisis. In other words, the Novus Ordo church is so bad, it makes the Greeks look good. No one would seriously consider the Orthodox as a viable option in 1950. The main reason people are struggling with it now is because they don't believe the words of Christ: "Thou art Peter, and upon this Rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall never prevail against it."