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Originally Posted by Llywarch Hen

Interesting, and should be discussed. I as a Protestant atheist do have acertain kneejerk dislike of Catholic forms. However, I live in Russia, and don't experience the same with regard to Orthodoxy. Maybe I'm just too close to Roman Catholicism (my father's Irish family) to dispassionately evaluate it, but this is a real part of my feelings.

That's a trivialization.

I find a celibate male priesthood rather distasteful. Of course, it's not beyond me to overcome this, by virtue of sound reason over gut instinct, but to not acknowledge it would be equally bad.

Maybe this is because you are not meant to understand why so many great thinkers have lived in celibate or near celibate, to sacrifice their entire selfs to their work, not being priests.

It should also be noted that Russian thinkers, notably Eurasianists like Gumilyov, view the West as one, the "RomanoGermanic Superethnos".

They are also "Eurasianists". It is no one's fault if the men in white haven't come for them yet.

Originally Posted by Sifjar

I'm not a great expert in theology however I am aware that two teleological schools came in conflict which is the '' Protestant and the Catholic'' mean while the Bishop of the Rome sees as the '' icon'' of the the central authority of all the '' Christendom '' over the '' Origin of the German emperors, the North Italian and also the France and also low countries. It's very strange how geographically locations played important rolls even from the beginning.

In the early Church the Bishop of Rome was primus inter pares with the Patriarchs of Contantinople and of Alexandria. It would be interesting to find out how much of the centralization of power in the figure of the Bishop of Rome is Latin, and how much comes from a different source.

Other than that, I agree with Breha.