"You will be a Russophile and be happy."
St. John Maximovitch layed out the framework, but some people are stubborn! I believe the above mentality actually deeply damages and hinders mission work (and it's not truly historical).
@Deth2Compromise you are using your private judgment of what the church used to teach to determine what is true against what your church currently teaches, seems like you’re a “protestant” according to your own accusations
Seraphim Webster and other WOs will claim that TO is a constant "purity spiral", that's not true. We understand historical disputes in context. We literally watched Webster purity spiral for months and we tried to warn him why that doesn't work... then he joined WO...
@Swoop_77 I don't care how you perceive history. Your Protestant reinterpretation of events and statements isn't correct. Anglicans falsey and dishonestly use it to claim the EO church validates their man made religion's existence, sorry, we don't.
If you took the time to understand Orthodoxy you would know that this isn't a concern for us and was never broadly accepted until the "official" bodies began going apostate in the 20th century.
@Swoop_77@monachus_iners If not members they were caving to the ideologies or simply out of ignorance on what Anglicanism actually is. Most didn't know any better. The early 20th century is when the modernists were taking power. And the Orthodox world was in rough shape from the Ottomans and Soviets.