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How many ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN POLISH in Poland? [40]
my family are polish and we are orthodox NOT all polish people are catholic!
Where I live, in eastern Poland, Orthodox and Roman Catholics live peacefully side by side. They inter-marry with very few problems; they have friends who attend churches of the other denomination without any antagonism for the most part; they work together without asking or caring which type of catholicism their colleague belongs to.
Having said that, there
are companies which tend to employ only, or mostly, RC or Orthodox, but this is largely the result of the culture of filling job positions by 'connections': family, Church, or friends.
There are very, very few militant bigots on either side of what I hesitate to call 'the divide', as the divide doesn't really exist.
almax states a fact. I work with, and live with, Orthodox Poles who are 100% part of Polish society. Their denomination is a cultural element in their lives, and not a political one.
When I think of orthodox christianity in Poland I think of forced russification, language and religion (under tsar) Maybe not fair but that's my connotation.
Time for a well-deserved holiday (from whatever it is you do) in eastern Poland.
whats it like to be orthodox in a catholic country ?
It's not a catholic or Catholic country. It's a secular democracy, not a theocracy.
No, not all Poles are Catholics. I'm a Lutheran.
I thought you were an American. Whatever.
