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To: Kolokotronis

Vladimir Putin poses for holy pictures as Orthodox. Thus the answer is YES! I assume that most Orthodox believe in the Real Presence but the Russian Orthodox have (via the notion of vesting authority in a nation and rejecting actual universality) but the Russian Orthodox Church has paid the price of having all too cozy a relationship between the reds and its Russian clergy. I am less acquainted with the Greek Orthodox Church and others but these also resist universality.


75 posted on 05/07/2009 7:27:37 AM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: BlackElk

“...the Russian Orthodox Church has paid the price of having all too cozy a relationship between the reds and its Russian clergy.”

Indeed it has, as all state churches of whatever persuasion do. Ethnophyletism isn’t avoided simply because a church has a central universal authority, BE.


80 posted on 05/07/2009 8:58:35 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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