Consider the following

>>1794551
More or less, yea. It's a shame but that's what happens when you split from the Church for temporal reasons as the Roman Catholic Church did.

Ten differences between Orthodox and Catholicism.

1. Orthodox reject inheritability of sin. Death and suffering are human nature, we only don't suffer them when partaking in perfect synergism with God's energies, which we haven't since the fall.

2. The Orthodox reject the "satisfaction theory of atonement". The Orthodox subscribe to "Christus Victor" (the idea of atonement illustrated in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe).

3. Hell in Orthodoxy is not separation from God. Hell, like heaven, is experiencing the full radiance of God's light and presence, but with a negative relationship so that it is like fire.

4. The Orthodox reject the idea that our understanding of dogma develops. The idea is to keep the exact same understanding the Apostles have, invented terminology is not meant to develop the understanding, but to PROTECT it from being "developed".

5. Catholics define usury as excessive interest, Orthodox define usury as any interest.

6. The Orthodox reject the Catholic idea of supererogation.

7. The Orthodox reject Purgatory. The Orthodox do, however, distinguish Sheol (called "Hades" in Greek) from Gehenna.

8. Orthodoxy places enormous emphasis on fasting, in fact more than half the days of the year involve some sort of fast. And there are even some days which are total fasts, no intake, period. Two consistent fast days (almost every Wednesday and Friday, no meat, dairy, eggs, fish, oils or wine) trace back at least to the Didache.

9. Orthodox draw most of their priests from the married laity, but most of their bishops from monks.

10. Infants can and do receive Holy Communion

From my post in a previous thread:

>Protestants
They make the fatal mistake of rejecting the first 1500 years of Church history and this ignore, or rather pick and choose Tradition. Tradition is an essential part of the Church, and is a cornerstone of the early Church that Protestants claim to have revived, but haven't at all. It is the teachings of Christ, His command to the Apostles to spread the Word, and thus Apostolic Succession. This authority is part of Tradition, and eventually lead to the Cannon of the NT. The NT wasn't assembled as a "believe this and reject all else", but rather it was assembled and accepted over the centuries of the early Church by the same criteria as rooting out heresies - what is accepted and practiced by all Christians all over Christiandom? Only what came from Christ via His Apostles would meet that criteria. Heresies such as Iconoclasm, Monothelitism, Monarchism/Adoptionist, Gnosticism, Papal Supremacy, and Sola Scriptura/Sola Fide did not fit this criteria and we're all innovations, thus heresies and not accepted. The Orthodox Church has survived all these adversarial ideas.

Reminder that....
The papal states based its secular power on a lie ((Donation of Constantine))

Started wars out of greed for secular power

Destroyed the authority of the Holy Roman Emperor when it out of Greed contested their authority over Italy and ruined their system of administrating Bishops.

Used excommunication, a spiritual measure, to get secular power

Betrayed its allies in war ((Remember War of the League of Cambrai? The Papal states was the first ones to switch side))

Let the corruption in its church grow so vast that a violent reformation soon became inevitable

Had a cardinal, one of the very people responsible for electing a new pope, funding both Muslim Ottomans and Protestant Swedes to kill his fellow Catholics ((Cardinal Richelieu))

Used it's own Monks to perfect different methods of torture.

Catholics will decry Protestants for ruining old traditional Europe while being glad that Catholicism replaced old Pagan traditional Europe.

>>1795884

Protestants did more to ruin traditional Europe.

https://youtu.be/YQCIxnkAtiI

>>1794551
It's sad it is. But sadly very little we can do about it rather than not go to alot of the modern Catholic churches in Yankland

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>>1795884
>Destroyed the authority of the Holy Roman Emperor when it out of Greed contested their authority over Italy and ruined their system of administrating Bishops.

Sorry, destroyed the authority of whom?

>>1794551
Holy crap you Orthodox have such a chip on your shoulder over Catholicism.

Its one thing to disagree, heck the conservative Catholics disagree with everyone but themselves, but its quite another to create shitpost everywhere about how terrible the other guy is compared to yourself. Even if your technically right you come off as an ass.