@TheoriaMaxx@whosagainstus@AlastarYt62080 You’re assuming that as long as someone isn’t literally impersonating a monk, there’s no issue. The analavos is a sacred garment representing monastic vows and renunciation. Reproducing its appearance as streetwear trivializes its significance. Reverence isn’t just technicalities
@TheoriaMaxx@whosagainstus@AlastarYt62080 It’s clearly meant to mimic a sacred vestment. It’s inappropriate for a layperson to wear. The only people who should be walking around covered in such symbols are schema monks at monasteries.
@RabbiJeffx Yes, Rebecca Walker is Jewish. She is the daughter of African-American author Alice Walker and Jewish civil rights lawyer Melvyn Leventhal. She identifies as Black, White, and Jewish, and authored the memoir Black, White, and Jewish.
@Hushua88@HerbEivers@RealBenMichael The EP is an honorary title—he doesn’t have centralized, binding authority over other Eastern Orthodox jurisdictions. That’s kind of the whole point—that we have a decentralized power structure.
Constantinople isn’t an Orthodox pope so Bartholomew cannot simply reunite with Rome and drag everyone else with him.
Florence already demonstrated that. Eastern bishops agreed to reunion with Rome, went home, and much of the East rejected it.
So why would this time be different? If Constantinople joined Rome tomorrow, what actually binds the other Orthodox churches to follow?
@Abunajohn@RonCriss5 EP is an honorary title and nothing more. That’s what distinguishes the Orthodox Church from Catholicism, which is highly centralized.
@MarioBojic My biggest fear is that people riot for a few days, things calm down, and things resume as normal with more migrants being imported in. This is what usually happens.
@SaP011 My biggest fear is that people riot for a few days, things calm down, and things resume as normal with more migrants being imported in. This is what usually happens.