Why Nick (FreeRillian) didn’t convert to Orthodoxy.

“By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you STAND! Men of the West!”

I have moved from low church to high church ... because it is age appropriate. for me. I admire Coptic and Greek Orthodoxy.

“ i am a western Christian “ 🤗❤️

Anglo Catholic IS orthodox. Anglo Catholicism acknowledges Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox as being branches of the one Church to which it belongs. The understanding is that there is objective unity underlying subjective disunity, the disunity being due to varying traditions and ideas which have been developments subsequent to the original consensus of the undivided Church. Nick rightly affirms his Trinitarian baptism. That is the sacramental reality that basically unites all who have experienced it, whether Anglican, Roman, Eastern or Protestant.

Here you Nick. My father was anti-religious and my mother was barely religious. I have helped reverse a 200 year old decline.

Nick Rocks

What you learned in Protestantism was valuable. Catholicism has a Catechism that is helpful to explain the Church's positions. Unfortunately, apparently, the Orthodox do not.

On some level, if I make that move from west to east, am I still subscribing to a form of fundamentalism? Is there anywhere to go where there’s not some fundamentalism (dogmas / black and white lines) at the bottom? Is it foolish to think that it’s possible to be anywhere without holding some deep-rooted dogmas way down? Understood that the emphasis in Orthodoxy is more on participating in or embodying a pattern of reality, but are there still propositions I’m affirming by being accepted into the eastern church? As an outside observer, there seems to be some deep disputes between different Orthodox communities that ultimately amount to propositions about the nature of this that or the other thing.

We are part of Revelation, existing in God's time, outside of time from our point of view. From our philosophical & teleological stance the world appears to be unfolding towards some difficult, probably impossible to grasp destination within our time. But for Christians the destination is always and at all times of God's time. Of existence within Revelation. And we are already there if you can embrace this 'eastern feeling' mystery. How should we proceed then? "On Earth as it is in Heaven", In our time as it is in God's time.