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Camden Clark
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Hudson Gonzalez
This unrelated to OP's shitpost, but is it true that Greek Orthodox churches tend to be more liberal than Russian Orthodox? What are the differences between all the Orthodox variants anyway?
Wyatt Cooper
From my experience the Greeks are the most liberal out of all the Orthodox but still leagues more conservative than the average church outside Orthodoxy. Russians and Serbs tend to be the most conservative. Bulgarians tend of keep to themselves. Antiochians probably have the most western converts out of anybody else from what I've seen, I'm not sure why though. I don't have much experience with Romanians or Georgians.
Henry Thomas
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see serbians
Thomas Kelly
It'd be unfair and extremely uncharitable to attribute anything of this crime to the Orthodox or its teaching.
I hope they do not get attacked over this from MSM.
Hudson Stewart
Serbian Church, Church of Greece, and ROCOR tend to be the "conservative" ones (schismatics have no grace, Jews are behind everything evil in the world, preparation to communion must be strict).
The rest of the churches are just neutral, except for some bishops here and there who are super conservative.
I have never seen an Orthodox parish be what you'd consider "liberal" by the standards of Christendom.
The Orthodox are winnie the pooh hypocrites, what do you expect?
You mean like all those Orthodox who kill their unborn children in Russia? Or those Greek Orthodox bishops in America who are fine with abortion if the (((doctors))) say the woman's in danger? Or those bishops in Cyprus who allowed Orthodox women to abort if they were raped by Turks?
The Orthodox are guilty of countless crimes already, one more Orthodox murderer isn't a remarkable event.
Levi Morgan
There is no difference theologically, they all hold the same Traditions.
As for the rituals and what to use, those traditions are up to the Church (example, in some Slavic Orthodox Churches, for Palm Sunday, they will give out pussywillows (pic related) instead of palms (because palms dont grow out near Carpathia)
Caleb Howard
you know you can insert any branch and related country and get the same thing right?
Jeremiah Cox
lmao
Orthodox are as theologically diverse as Anglicans.
Is there original sin, or are we all born immaculate?
Is the essence-energy distinction a dogma?
Is a second marriage sacramental or not? Does a divorce actually terminate a marriage?
Are schismatic sacraments valid? Do schismatics have any grace at all? Must Catholics and Oriental Orthodox be rebaptized?
Is there an eternal relation between the Son and the Holy Spirit?
How many sacraments are there?
All of those are essential questions, yet they all have a spectrum of responses within Orthodoxy. At this point the Orthodox are indistinguishable from Protestants because they're so all over the place.
All the Christian confessions of faith have their hands bathed in blood, and I don't know which is the most clean one. Not that it matters anyway, correct doctrine is more important.