[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

If the American Lutheran churches keep up what they are doing, I may just find myself swimming the Bosporus someday soon.

Not desirable. Lutheranism is a Noble Reformation Faith (albeit, Calvinism is better still -- OP's bias showing), and worth fighting for.

But that said... better the orthodox Bosphorus with its flaws, than the utterly-apostate Tiber.

[redgolum]

Don't worry, it won't be without a fight. I will not go quietly. However, I am getting married soon, and we hope to have kids. I don't want to subject my future family to the type of tripe you get at some of the "mainline" Lutheran synods. The LCMS is in the middle of a circular firing squad, and I quite frankly doubt the synod will last until the next general convention.

Many of the Eastern Orthodox have stated that the Protestant Reformation was an attempt to return to Orthodoxy that went astray. Some of Luther's contemporaries appealed to the partiarch of Costantinoble, but were politely rejected. Sola Scriptora, and the Turkish rulers, were a bit to much for the EO or the Prots to handle. Still, Lutheran theology and EO share much. Lutherans view the Real Presence in communion much the same way the EO do, and of course the justification/sanctification debate.

What confuses me is that Rome keeps insisting that Eastern Orthodox have the same theology as Rome does, while the Orthodox have never made that claim.