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I think all this doctrine infighting is the sickness of religion. I think God is more interested in your love for others than in your beliefs about this or that doctrine. I think when we get to the day of judgement, what we will have to answer for are the times we visited the poor and those in prison, not specifically what we believed about the doctrine of the Theotokos.

I think you should be striving with all of your might to be in communion with God instead of trying to explain God. I think words are inadequate and useless when it comes to the greatest mystery ever.

And I think the Reformation did irreparable damage to the church of Christ.

I think all this doctrine infighting is the sickness of religion

You come here and initiate the doctrinal fight from the Orthodox perspective and then complain about infighting?

How about responding to JMJ's question? You inserted yourself into the situation, do you not think you have a burden to respond?

In other words, you don't have an argument against the article. I am guessing from your responses that you won't read it. I will end with this quote from Newman in the article:

I say it distinctly--there may be many excuses at the last day, good and bad, for not being Catholics; one I cannot conceive: "O Lord, the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception was so derogatory to Thy Grace, so inconsistent with Thy Passion, so at variance with Thy word in Genesis and the Apocalypse, so unlike the teaching of Thy first Saints and Martyrs, as to give me a right to reject it at all risks, and Thy Church for teaching it. It is a doctrine as to which my private judgment is fully justified in opposing the Church's judgment. And this is my plea for living and dying a Protestant". [just subtitute the word orthodox for protestant--it will still apply]