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To: SoCal Pubbie

The is a historical problem that Eastern Orthodoxy has:
* Protestantism - Church and state are separate
* Catholicism - The state is beneath the church
* Orthodoxy - The church serves the state

It’s not theological, but after hundreds of years of despotism the Eastern Churches are very reluctant to stand up to those in power.

This has made democracy much harder to sustain than in nations where the church is a counterweight to state power.


7 posted on 03/04/2022 8:32:28 AM PST by Renfrew
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To: Renfrew

You are wrong.

Orthodoxy serves God.

Leave it alone.


15 posted on 03/04/2022 9:00:59 AM PST by katie didit
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