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To: The_Reader_David

And it was the hierarchs and God Ordained emperors who to a greater or lesser extent, dealt with him, not the Laos you Theou. Arius’ bishop, his sf, tried to deal with him through a priests’ council and then through other bishops and the Great Council and more. We both know the delicious end Arius came to, but the Laos tou Theou had nothing to do with it.

You of course are entitled to your personal opinions. I suggest, however, that prayer and dying to the self, however minimally and slowly, is preferable to judgmental politics, but that is the way in the West, sadly.


23 posted on 05/04/2015 4:36:20 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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To: Kolokotronis

I think I put a more generous construction on the words of the Eastern Patriarchs in their Encyclical of 1848 “...the protector of religion is the very body of the Church, even the people themselves,...” than you are willing to allow, particularly in these latter days when there is no God Ordained Emperor.

Still, I thank you for calling me to repentance. I suppose my initial post about the handmaiden of God, Arianna, was lacking in charity, and that the doublemindedness needed to publicly advocate positions at variance with the Faith isn’t really any different from the doublemindedness found in any of us who persist in sins when we know (or should know) better.


25 posted on 05/05/2015 5:43:34 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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