I was about to make the comment, “I think the Greeks are doing a good job right now sacking their own country, they don’t need any help from the West.”
The interesting thing is whereas the East learned it from the top down (wars, invasion, oppression, etc), the west is learning it from the bottom up (immigration, multiculturalism, etc).
Byzantium had lost the will to fight at the time of the Islamic expansion. The west now finds itself in the same boat. The future looks grim indeed. All the more need to have a common banner to gather around.Or maybe a chair?
At the rate we’re going we won’t be far behind.I was about to make the comment, “I think the Greeks are doing a good job right now sacking their own country, they don’t need any help from the West.”
The Greeks are doing it, and the Russians are doing it. Yep, no fear from the East.I was about to make the comment, “I think the Greeks are doing a good job right now sacking their own country, they don’t need any help from the West.”
Time will tell. There does seem to be an increased rejection in PCness for the sake of PCness, but we shall see.
As it stands now, even a unification of the two Churches would not help the situation. What needs to happen must happen on a secular level.
That comment offends me. BAN!
My experience with the internet is that outside corporate sites the majority oppose being PC.That comment offends me. BAN!
WOW! I hope you’re right! I’ve seen no evidence of that!
Increased, not complete.
In the west the secular culture is the problem. The secular world offers a happiness based on material wealth. It is promising something that doesn’t exist. People are learning this and they are getting pissed. Crumbling economies are the proof of this lie. Islam is the only system that is offering a real alternative on a governmental level which is why people are embracing it in such large numbers. They see Islam as the only real opposition to the system that failed them. If the secular world offers the only solution then we are all screwed.
I don’t think the average Orthodox or Catholic has any interest in reunification. My empirical observation is that a lot of Orthodox are not positively disposed to anything Catholic.
Orthodox moral teachings are the same as when we were in communion, over 1000 years ago.
Here you are wrong.
That is sad. I would love to see the Catholic and Orthodox Churches reunited together as once Church. We are all Children of God and Brothers/Sisters of Christ who desire the same thing, the Kingdom of Heaven for all souls. Therefore, there is no reason not to be reunited. If we could only resolve the issues that separate us we would be well on our way!
That’s a good point which I didn’t necessarily exclude from my post, as Orthodox and Catholic Europeans are both contracepting themselves into oblivion.Compared to the Islamization of western Europe as well?I think both sides will need each other in the coming centuries. I don’t see them being unified like in the good ol’ days before the 11th century, but reconciliation can at least soften the previous years.
I can certainly understand what you are saying here.
I left Evangelical Christianity because the Sunday morning worship service had become a show with the focus entirely on the people participating. I went on to consider the question of Authority and that led me carefully to examine the truth claims of the Catholic Church together with the truth claims of the Orthodox Church. Eventually, I concluded that the latter contains the fullness of truth. However, it isn’t my contention that the Catholic Church has no authority. I just don’t recognize its authority.SSTeacher;6949073:
to one side and come back to it after you’ve given thought to the question of whose authority?I don’t know how to do that. Make it easy for me. Tell me the reasons why aren’t you an Evangelical any more and why do you think the Orthodox Church has authority and the Catholic Church doesn’t? And you’re a teacher so can you do it in one paragraph without lecturing me?
