In fact I will not reply to your post.
I specifically said that you were NOT insulting me - with the addition of the smiley faces you added, I recognized that.
However, me bringing it up alerts you to the fact that one COULD take it as a subtle slap at "those changing Catholics". What would be your reaction if I made some sort of comment about the Orthodox "being fossilized and static, incapable of addressing the issues of today", but added a smiley face at the end? I take it that, you knowing me, you would understand it was not an insult, BUT, you would not be happy about it. I would expect a kind word of reprovement towards me to be careful. Please take my comments on this as a kind reprovement, not that our friendship has suffered or I have been insulted. The manner we last parted was not unfriendly and I have no intent to change that now.
We have discussed much together and have generally sided with each other throughout. If you believe I have changed for the worse as a result of my more recent "pen-pals", I apologize. By the grace of God, I believe I have been quite successful elsewhere in a very anti-Catholic setting - however, not without a price, apparently.
Brother in Christ