/lit/ - Literature

So I'm curious: are there any actual Orthos in this thread? Like, people from Russia, or Greece, or the Balkans? Because I've always wondered how they feel about people in the West getting into Orthodoxy.

I'm a Catholic, and as LARPy as the TradCath movement can be, it seems like the Orthodox have it worse. My overwhelming impression of most Orthobros is that they (rightly) sense the inherent emptiness of modern American Protestantism, so they reject it, but they've kept the inherent Protestant suspicion of Catholicism so they don't want to join up with Rome. Hence, they turn to Orthodoxy, the other Church with apostolic succession. Also it's distant and exotic and that's appealing to people in their teens and twenties.