I mean it. We are brain-sick and heartsick because of this loveless ecclesiastical divorce.
It is a foul odour in the nostrils of God that these shameful divisions have been allowed to continue because of unrepentant hardness of heart, turf-wars, religious nationalism, religious imperialism, bug-tussles over abstruse bafflegab ---
Now that all of Christendom east of Belgrade and south of Palermo is being exterminated by IslamoFascism--- I lack the strength to continue on this theme. For God's sake let us pray with one another and love one another.
Hey! I KNOW you weren't present at the last Departmental Staff Meeting I was required to attend ... but that's a perfect description of it.
Excellent points. Let’s pray for Eastern and Western Christians to reunite and for the Islamofascists to return to the pit in hell that they escaped from.
As you point out, the doctrinal differences between Eastern and Western Christendom are reconcilable, as the sacraments are valid. The filoque clause difference has been discussed ad infinitum and it appears that the creedal differences can be interpreted as largely semantics (language imprecisions in translations).