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Anσnymσus Posts Allowed / Re: Reputations of Eastern Orthodoxy
« Last post by Änσnymσus on Yesterday at 12:00:56 PM »Why would someone down vote this comment when I am simply laying out an ecclesiological fact?If the Byzantines are Catholic despite keeping the Orthodox label, then why the concern about rash judgments? No one has made any comment that has anything to do with them. All of the doctrinal issues were clearly about the Orthodox. I just don't see why you felt the NEED to bring them up at all.
Eastern Orthodoxy is a religious system shot through with inconsistencies and nationalisms. A Latin Catholic would be rash and foolish to defect to Orthodoxy because he would have to abandon his culture and he would always be suspect as a foreigner amongst the Orthodox. And, of course, Orthodoxy is cut off from the true Church. Even to go to the Western Orthodox vicariates with the Russians or Antiochians is senseless since most Orthodox hold that only the Byzantine liturgy is acceptable worship.
What I stated in my comment is simply a presentation of facts and a counsel against rash judgments since the distance between Byzantine Catholics and Eastern Orthodox is much shorter than thd distance between Byzantine Catholics and Roman Catholics, yet the Byzantine Catholics are own brothers in ecclesial communion.