[MuttTheHoople]

My problem with the Orthodox Church is that this is where much of the anti-Semitism that lead to the Shoah came from- most Europeans believing "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"- a hoax written by Russian Orthodox Priests.

Being Manly is all good and well, but read Corinthians 13- if you don't have love, you have nothing. Pharisees were superb ritual-followers.

[Campion]

Where do you get your information? The Wikipedia article on the Protocols seems clear that it was plagiarized from a number of (mostly non-Russian) sources. The only person they mention as involved who comes close to meeting your "Russian Orthodox priests" description is Sergei Nilus, but he was a layman who presented himself as a starets (holy man). The other Russians known to have been involved were laymen, members of far-right anti-semitic parties and/or agents of the tsarist secret police.

[Mount Athos]

You don’t have any evidence behind that smear do you.
It seems to share the same character as the protocols.
And in the same breath as talking about Christian love?

Modern scholarship with the benefit of opened archives has determined that Mathieu Golovinski was the most likely author. He was an exile from an aristocrat family and later joined — the atheist Bolsheviks who were fiercely against the church.

[ravenwolf]

Being Manly is all good and well, but read Corinthians 13- if you don’t have love, you have nothing.

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It some times takes masculinity to lift some one out of the ditch and that comes from the love Jesus was talking about.

Luke 10:25-37
The good Samaritan.

1 John 1
18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

[vladimir998]

“My problem with the Orthodox Church is that this is where much of the anti-Semitism that lead to the Shoah came from...”

The East had plenty of its own anti-semitic sentiment, but the West did too for many centuries. When you throw in the new racial theories, Darwinism, Nietzsche, the neo-paganism revival of Wagner and Wotan worship nonsense that flourished in the late 19th-early 20th century you can see where it was all going.

[dila813]

Not all Orthodox Churches are Russian Orthodox.

That’s just the biggest one.

Orthodox Churches in public tend to be more nationalist because they don’t have the benefit of Rome’s Sovereignty.