Quote Originally Posted by Crandar View Post
There is no such thing as the Greek Orthodox Church. The Patriarch of Istanbul may have become more friendly with the Pope, but neither of them has any authority on the Metropolis of Aetolia and the Archbishopric of Athens.

Generally the Papacy is hated openly by the lower clergy and their flock and more secretly by the bishops. Pope is generally considered the representative of Beelzebub. Even archbishops are not as politically correct as their Western European colleagues.
http://www.webcitation.org/5v92oxA6c...pe/1222101.stm

I am not that optimist. In my experience, the youth is more obsessed with religion than their parents. Too much praying, when they pass outside churches and being religious has become more trendy since the wave of New-Orthodoxy.

Meanwhile the lack of education and the Internet has encouraged the veneration of populist monks, their wardrobe's contents and their crazy conspiracy-theories.
See this is why Autochephaly is bad - if his All Holiness was still actually in charge the Schism would be over.

I blame the Turks mostly, but I also blame the Eastern Romans for abandoning their Roman heritage.

That's why Constantinople is still occupied and Hagia Sofia has those stupid Minarets and buttresses bolted on...

Damnit, someone bring me some sea water and volcanic ash, I'll fix it!

(It's 5:31am and I've been working all night).