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You either worship the Creator or the created. If you worship created objects, you are guilty of idolatry. The headline is indefensible. Since when have you actually know an Orthodox Christian to actually worship an object? This is poetic hyperbole. Protties if anything worship personalities pastor celebrities. I used to like the preaching of Joyce Meyers until she became a deity herself. Now she spends so much time talking about how she deserves all the money she has. This is a poor substitute for the Gospel, but those mindless Protty sheep keep forking over millions to their goddess...not to mention Olsteen. These are far greater obstacles to the worship of the Creator than a technically misplaced use of the word, "worship." But then, Protties spend all their time gloating over the speck in their neighbor's eye while the tree trunk the size of Joyce Meyers has taken up residence in thier own eyes. False righteousness is a first class ticket to perdition, my friend.

“You either worship the Creator or the created. If you worship created objects, you are guilty of idolatry. The headline is indefensible.”

PAR35, most people around here for any length of time understand that Orthodox Christians only worship our Triune God; we venerate all sorts of objects for reasons which have been expressed multiple times here on FR. Your argument is a strawman.

The fact of the matter is that the particular word used here in the Greek text can be translated as either worship or venerate. Venerate would have a been a better English word for the translator to use, but he, being a Greek monk, likely didn’t think the use of the word “worship” would cause such a problem to American protestants. I suspect he’d say, as several of us have relative to Marian Devotions, that the veneration of icons, objects and/or saints and angelic powers really isn’t for protestants, at least not for most of them.

Next time I’ll be sure to post Orthodox prayers and hymns as Orthodox/Catholic caucus threads.