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To: Kolokotronis

That’s the stupidest thing I’ve read in a long time. Armenian Church isn’t a monolithic entity, as there are two different denominations - Armenian Catholics from Cilician Order and Armenian Apostolics, aka Eastern Orthodox.

The Orthodox schism happened 1500 years ago due to a war and other circumstances but this has not altered the core of the christian belief within the Orthodox churches in past 1000 years.

The squabble between priests of Armenian and Greek Orthodox orders is sort of a dumb rivalry that stretches back by centuries. It’s like a CalTech-MIT legacy of pranks. This is the only hotspot where a select group of orthodox members get into pissing matches with one another. Elsewhere, Greeks and Armenians live side-by-side and consider each other natural friends and allies as both are the victims of Turkish genocide.

I invite you to investigate this more thoroughly before making such ignorant statements.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_church#Monophysite_label


16 posted on 04/20/2008 6:09:34 PM PDT by Zombie Lincoln (McCain/<conservative_placeholder> '08)
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To: Zombie Lincoln

Um, ZL, I was kidding...something you would know if you had been around here more than a month.

And thanks for the link to Wikipedia’s article on Greek Orthodoxy, but seeing as my people have been Orthodox for at least 1700 years, I think I’ll pass on checking it out.


20 posted on 04/21/2008 4:26:29 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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