antioccan?
not the same.
small fringe group.
Tell him the serious Greek Orthodox people remember 1821. They remember the "secret schools" when the Islamic overseers would not let the slaves learn greek.
Remind your small minded friend that the monestaries of Meteora were set up to preserve the orthodox faith from exactly thse types of looney terrorists.
Also remind him that such islolated "priests" have their own agenda and it has nothing to do with god, it has everything to do with real estate $$$.
"Tell him the serious Greek Orthodox people remember 1821. They remember the "secret schools" when the Islamic overseers would not let the slaves learn greek."
As my forefathers were taught those stories and taught me, so I have taught my sons. In fact, as I sit here in my office, I have a picture of Nikitaras, the Turk Eater, on my wall and my oldest has one of Kolokotronis on his.
The Antiochians are different in the sense that they have not been able to permanently crawl out from underneath the heel of the Mohammadens the way that the Greeks, the Serbs, the Bulgarians and the Romanians have. Their worldview is different from ours.