Re: ROCOR

Oh brother... not another super-authentic-true-honest-to-goodness Orthodox who loves to point fingers. Let's see... all of us who are under the New Calendar, shave, our women folk do not wear head-coverings, use deodorant, accept the MP, don't get caught up in the Ecumenist/Modernist/Sergianist (and a host of other "ists" are NOT real Orthodox. Right? Give it a rest, Sonny Boy. ROCOR is now back in the flock, like it or not. And if you don't like it, you can always embrace one of ROCOR's splinter groups (i.e. HOCNA, ROCE). I have to admit, I used to get a bit worked up discussing Orthodoxy with a few of the more rabid zealots who embraced the ROCOR party-line. Generally they were young men who were recent converts and just gravitated to a system of belief that laid everything out for them. It provided a world of whites and blacks, since grays are a little too difficult to grasp. It's such an easy thing for a young, uneducated zealot to embrace. We see it all the time with young men strapping bombs on their backs in the name of Allah.

You're quite mistaken and you're also about a dozen years too late. You're providing answers for questions no one is asking any longer. It is YOU who needs to educate yourself and get with the times. And the times, they are a-changing, whether you like it or not. Thankfully Met. Laurus of blessed memory, had enough common sense to help in restoring unity in the Russian Church. Your arguments are old... stale... divisive and no longer (if ever) appreciated.

James

“For God so loved the world."