<OT> Re: list moderator losing perspective?

[Leon Goldstein]

Ric Moore wrote:

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>> 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.
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> 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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They haven't forgotten, or forgiven, the Fourth Crusade.

For some reason schools and universities in the USA do not include much, 
if anything, of Byzantine history in the curriculum.  Most of present 
day Romania was part of the Kingdom of Hungary , which until 1918 
stretched from Slovakia to the Adriatic.  Hungary went for the 
Reformation big time, but with a little help from the Hapsburgs was 
returned to the Catholic fold.  Curiously, it was a Hungarian protestant 
pastor in Temesvar/Timisoara Romania who started the revolt that brought 
down the Ceaucescu regime.


-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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