[kosta50]

Do you really want Orthodox Presbyterians to complain that you are monopolising the term "Orthodox" for an "Orthodox caucus" and that since they are orthodox too, they should be allowed into an Orthodox caucus?

Kolokotronis has left the FR over this. And I can see the rest of the Eastern Orthodox following in his steps. This is not a small matter, not to the Eastern Orthodox. Perhaps that's was the idea all along...who knows.

As for Orthodox Presbyterians, they have every right to challenege any caucus names Orthodox. It is too broad of a term and no one can monopolize it as his brand name. The eastern Orthodox Churches are commonly called Eastern Orthodox.

Likewise, every caucus named "Cathoic" is too broad of a term since the Roman Catholic Church does nto have ontological monopoly on it.

[Petronski]

Kolokotronis has left the FR over this. And I can see the rest of the Eastern Orthodox following in his steps. This is not a small matter, not to the Eastern Orthodox. Perhaps that's was the idea all along...who knows.

And yet when you identify yourself here, just now, you use the term "Eastern Orthodox." Twice.

You did not use the word Catholic (capitalized or not).

That tells me all I need to know.

[Religion Moderator]

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[Cronos]

The eastern Orthodox Churches are commonly called Eastern Orthodox.

And the western orthodox Churches are commonly called Catholic.

If we want to bicker about terms on a forum, we can argue that Christian groups in the East that are orthodox and not part of what we commonly call Eastern Orthodox should be allowed to jump on the "Eastern Orthodox caucus", then that would be silly of us.

And, once again, this naming of a caucus has no impact on anything outside the administration -- it has no impact on the debates we have and it definitely has no impact on real life. The Catholicity of the Orthodox Church is not even a point of debate, no more than the Orthodoxy of the Catholic Church.

Allowing someone from outside the Apostolic tradition, working on the Adversary's orders no doubt to break up a dialogue between west and east purely on the naming of a caucus is horrible -- we have better things to fight about.

[Pyro7480]

Kolokotronis has left the FR over this.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, when did that happen!!??

[Iscool]

Likewise, every caucus named "Cathoic" is too broad of a term since the Roman Catholic Church does nto have ontological monopoly on it.

Being on the outside looking in, I was always under the impression that the papists looked at you guys as an inferious species...

I honestly don't know why you guys keep mending that thread that connects your two so-called branches of the same religion...

[the_conscience]

As for Orthodox Presbyterians, they have every right to challenege any caucus names Orthodox. It is too broad of a term and no one can monopolize it as his brand name.

Exactly! I'm not OP but the point remains. From a historical standpoint the Eastern Orthodox have every right to that name.

Personally, after being stalked by sanctimonious Romanists demanding that I refer to them as they command I find their self-righteouness sickening and a proper caucus name may go a long way in alleviating their unChristian behavior.