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To: redgolum
Even American Orthodox hate Evangelicals for this.

Ah yes, the attitudes of dead, godless cultural "Christianity."

6 posted on 10/01/2014 7:23:57 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (It's time to Repeal and Replace the Republican Party)
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To: Yashcheritsiy

In the Orthodox world or the Evangelical?

Both could apply. The Orthodox view Protestants in general, and Evangelicals in particular, as tools of the GOP and the anti christ. Which is a step above how the view the Roman Catholic Church.

Waltzing in to a place with a 1500 year Christian history and telling them “You are doing it wrong” is asking for an attack. They have debates going on in the Church (the calendar for instance) that are older than the existence of the US.

The other side of the coin is that in the Orthodox churches, they are often ethnic clubs first and churches second or third. For a non Russian to convert to Russian Orthodoxy is pretty rare. Mainly because of the very ethno centric views of the clergy and laity. It varies from rite to rite and see to see, but in general they are Russians first, Christians second (which parallels many Evangelicals)


9 posted on 10/01/2014 10:58:05 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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