Justinain said:
Namees and ostonvasi--both of you make excellent points, but what you guys aren't recognizing is that people who get to the point where they pass judgment on the decisions of hierarchs, they can selectively pick and choose which hierarchs are 'Orthodox' based on who agrees with their opinion. This is what most of the 'ecumenist' libel that gets thrown around boils down to; people not allowing the tradition to form them, but rather, assuming that they are in a position to judge it. Lord knows that I am guilty of this, also, on occasion. But these kinds of debates profit us nothing, in the end. They only serve to divide us Orthodox against one another, and limits our ability to effectively witness to the True Faith among the unchurched and the heterodox alike.
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