"You look at the scriptures?
Occasionally. After all, it's all us Protestants have. It makes our lives so much simplier."
You guys have it sooooo easy! God made it hard for us Levantine types, what with all the stuff the Fathers wrote (32 volumes, I think, in the latest Ante and Post Nicene Fathers set...and that doesn't cover all of it my any means.) Because we're so nasty and Xenophobic, we passed it on to our near neighbors the Slavs, who also need all the spiritual help they can get so maybe we did them a favor. We tried with you Westerners, but the Latins just boiled it all down to canon law and the rest of you got your underwear in a knot over that and simply decided to read the bible and chuck the rules. But then again, you're much busier than we are and probably wouldn't have time to read all the stuff we do...and of course, as I have said, we do need it more than you guys! :)
No doubt about that. And we thank you (Greeks) every day for it.
Yes, we do.
Your turn!
Do any of you billion-plus Popes ever get them right?
LOLOL! If you had to sing the refrain of "Our God is an Awesome God" twenty-five time you wouldn't have any time either. Yes, yes; I know. The only church fathers us Protestants know are the greeters at the doors and canons are those things sitting outside the American Legion halls. Why bother with studying old dead guys writings when you can listen to a verse of scripture, an anedotical story about it and the pastor's opinion (from the latest commentary)? Protestants have it so much simplier. ;O)