The Orthodox know very well of attack from within, having experienced many decades of it under Soviet domination.
“The Orthodox know very well of attack from within, having experienced many decades of it under Soviet domination.”
They certainly do in those churches which were behind the iron curtain, but you know, AB, comparing the utter depravity of parts of the Roman Catholic Church, a depravity which developed in freedom in the West with the failures of human beings under the most totalitarian system yet devised is just a bit too disingenuous, don’t you think? Tens of thousands of Orthodox hierarchs and clergy and monastics and lay people were martyred by the communists for their beliefs. How many Roman Catholic hierarchs, clergy, monastics or laity were martyred for the Faith in the West since 1917, or since 1945?
Sadly, cheap moral equivalence is becoming increasingly common in the West.