"It always amazed me that various proslytizing groups would go to a Chirstian country or eareas with all the pagan souls around them, and try to set camp."
Me too. But then again, American Protestants do so very deeply understand other cultures and especially Eastern Christianity that, well frankly, Kosta, if we only understood as well as they did, we'd likely simply flock to them and leave aside all our old non Western religious ideas.
That reminds me of the time when I moved from crowded New York to rular Virginia and bought a house there with one acre of land. Shortly after arriving there, someone rang my door bell and when I opened the door a man introduced himself as a Methodist Minister, wlecomed me to the community and invited me tocome join his church. I thanked him on the warm welcome and told him that I appreciate the invitation but that I couldn't join his parish because I am Eastern Orthodox. "No problem," he said, "I will write to you church and ask that they release you."
I must confess that the good minister brought me to the brink of laughter, but I held my composore because his intentions were sincere, but apparently he knew nothing about us.