“Shall I go on?”
Naah, Kolo. No need. I can see why such attitudes would color your outlook and why you said the things you did. I actually feel you to an extent. One reason I left Protestantism was the “Holier than EVERYONE” attitude. Self-righteousness is a very, VERY ugly thing, and I hate it with every fiber of my existence.
I lost my temper at you earlier on this forum, and I need to publicly apologize to you. Please forgive me.
“I need to publicly apologize to you.”
No you don’t.
“Please forgive me.”
Of course.
Next Sunday and for the next few months, look around the temple and watch the the older cradles as they pray and notice the little things they do and say depending on the liturgical season. Their Orthodoxy, Y, is definitional of who they are. It is as much part of them as the cells in their bodies. Quite literally everything about them is shaped by their Orthodox Christianity. You will learn The Faith from the Fathers and the liturgies and devotions of The Church, and, God willing, from a good and holy spiritual father. But you will learn to LIVE the Faith, the Faith upon which the Universe was founded, from the unsophisticated Orthodox Christians around you.