You are stuck on the physical and outwardly religion and not the substance of faith. Your parish, just as any other Orthodox parish, refuses Eucharist to the non-Orthodox. I call that non-Christian. It goes for the whole Church. It has nothing to do with what parish you go to.
The Orthodox Church, not just your or my parish, converts Catholics by the same ritual which was originally devised for the Arian heretics: chrismation. By doing so, the Church is saying Catholics are heretics of the worst kind.
The Church accepts Monophysite Coptics to communion, and their concept of Jesus Christ is radically different from the Orthodox or Catholic. Yet they are "worthy" of our Eucharist and the Catholics are not. Talk about arrogance and un-Christian praxis!
I am stuck on the fact that you say the church doesn't live Christ, but you never have the chance to personally witness this supposed lack of Christ. It's an experiential faith but you are never there to experience it. You are making your condemnations from non-experience, of an experiential faith.
Kind of silly, don't you think?
Well, dialogue has led to a greater belief of unity after all. It's a good thing. Have you ever been to a Coptic service, btw?
How would you, personally, describe your above words? As from a person at peace?