<OT> Re: list moderator losing perspective?

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 20:21 -0500, Leon Goldstein wrote:
> Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
> >Ric Moore wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>My brother and his family are hugely evangelical. 
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Emotion and context don't travel well in 7-bit ASCII but you say that as if it 
> >were an obvious point of derision. To some of us that would not be the case.
> >
> > > My niece wanted to go
> >  
> >
> >>to Romania to spread the Gospel and minister to the orphans (where 95%
> >>of the population has been Christian before this country was founded)
> >>and needed several grand for travel expenses to go do this Good Work. 
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >All of Europe could probably be said to be "christian" before the founding of 
> >this country. Today it would take serious detective work to find enough 
> >Biblical Christians on the whole continent to fill a bus. You don't suppose a 
> >half century of atheist communist rule could have made any difference in Romania?
> >
> >  
> >
> Romanians belong to an Orthodox confession.  They, as do other Orthodox 
> Christians, consider themselves to be
> "biblical"  while they think of the  western derivatives as something else.

My first wife was Greek Orthodox. I went to the Easter night-time
service with her in DC once. You're right... it was laid out in spades
what they felt about us Protestants nor were they bashful about it.
<grins> They also bashed their own that only came to services on the
High Occasions, so there was plenty bashing to go around. Never screw
with the Greeks. :) They are a "robust" people who adhere strongly to
their Orthodoxy as being the one and only Church untainted by the Roman
Rulers and the following un-orthodox Churches. They do make a point. Go
through a property settlement with one and you'll be lucky to have that
one lone blue sock that was in the sock drawer you used to have.
<shudders> Ric


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