/lit/ - Literature

>>18819077
>tied in with ethnicity
>Catholicism

>>18562668
It's also just, frankly, non-Christian, when looked at from the other direction. Christianity is a proselytizing religion, a missionary religion. Jesus calls on His followers to go out into the world and spread the Gospel, baptizing everyone on Earth. The Orthodox have basically not done that in almost a thousand years. Now, you can say that they've had to deal with a lot of shit--the Ottomans, the Turks, the Soviets--but beyond that, it almost feels like there's no active desire by Orthos to proselytze.

Compare this to the Catholic Church, which has been super gung-ho about spreading the Faith in the last 500 years or so. It existed in the Middle Ages too but it really kicked into high gear with the discovery of the New World and the opening up of the East. Fuck, the Vatican literally has a "Congregation for Evangelization." Some of the most famous saints in the Church's history, like St. Francis Xavier, are famous because they converted millions and personally baptized thousands. And isn't that what Jesus Himself says Christianity should be doing?

>>17769942
Deep down, everybody else knows who the king is. The atheists, the Jews, the Muslims, the Orthodox, the Protestants, the Buddhists, the Hindus, everybody. Everybody knows who the greatest religion of them all is, even if it burns them up to admit it.