I agree with all you have said, but many historical events must be brought up. When did the Eastern Church sack Rome? When did the Eastern Church ignore Rome's cries for help? Did the EOC abandon the RCC to islam? We are to speak the truth in love, but first we need to speak the truth!
Thank you. I just think that your response to Cronos' orininal post 462 was not directed to what he said, and simply used it as an excuse to hurl invective. I thought he was trying to be balanced; what he said was hardly some kind of anti-Orthodox screed.
If his subject matter pertained to what you wound-up saying, then what you said would be relevant, and (while I disagree with its slant) you certainly would be within your rights to defend your Church. But this seemed to come out of nowhere.
Both of us have a hard enough time trying to defend the Apostolic Faith against the invective-laced, non-sequitur filled, doctrinally and historically misinformed avalanche of posts directed at us by our Protestant brethren daily on this forum. Neither of our groups hijacks their threads as they often do ours, or has more than a trace of the malice or disingenuous feigning of "misunderstanding" they so often demonstrate to stir the pot. Let's not do the same to each other. What I say to you I also ask of all of your fellow-Orthodox and all of my fellow-Catholics. Let's rise above the undercurrent we swim in.