Sorry, I'm just not gettin’ all worked up about it.
If you read through my posts, I make significant effort to speak clearly and without “churlishness.” Here, we're discussing ontology, and my correspondent says of the Catholic Church's understanding:
"It wouldn't be the first corruption of Greek by the west, for sure.”
Now, if he wants to make a dig, well, lots of that goes on at FR. But often, when the conversation starts to degnerage in that way, I try to remind myself that it would be better to start to disengage than to descend slowly into the gutter with my interlocutor. I wish I always did this, I don't. But this time, I did.
“The Catholic Church is all of the Catholic Church, not just a segment of it.”
Yes, and the Orthodox Churches are not quite the Catholic Church. Here is a thread posted a couple of years ago and recently resurrected:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1863482/posts
It's a CDF discussion about the status and essential elements of other churches and ecclesial bodies. I think a fair reading of it supports what I've said about the differences between the Catholic and the Orthodox Churches.
As for churishness generally, I've been here for a little while, and have interacted with and watched the interactions with Orthodox posters. We Catholics have nothing on them in this category.
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I do not have the temper to deal with you tonight. I am afraid that I will deal with you as you deserve. I would ask that you read up on the first millennium of the Fathers and then if you understood it you would hide your head in shame. As for churishness generally, I've been here for a little while, and have interacted with and watched the interactions with Orthodox posters. We Catholics have nothing on them in this category.
Many Western Catholics post idiotic statements like this. No wonder things are as they are. The Protestantization of the Latin Church, culminating in Vatican II has come close to destroying it. If it wasn't for the Orthodox anchoring the Faith, who knows where it might have gone.
The post you linked to refers to the Oriental Churchs: Copts, etc. with whom orthodoxy disagreed over the words homousis (can’t remember the Greek word). This is NOT referring to the Orthodox.