How many ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN POLISH in Poland?

Christianity have the same tendency. EU is a typical christian club. No entrance for muslims.

Churches.


There are millions already and as you well know, Turkey is a candidate.

There are christians living in muslim countries too. This does not prove anything.

Turkey is a candidate for decades. Do you know how many new members accepted to EU during this time. All of these countries are weaker than Turkey by all aspects.

EU even accepted half of Cyprus as the representative of all Cyprus which shows her view very clearly.

We Turks and Europeans know that this is a funny theatral game. Turkey will never be a member. Honestly, we do not care either.

Most of the Europeans are religious, conservative and some of them are seriously racist.

Yes it does.

Spiritually somewhere between the two.

Orthodoxy.....Catholicism..................................Protestanti sm is more accurate.

Orthodoxy - ascetic, traditional, rigid, internally divided, always losing the focus on earthly, material aspects, hence poverty compared to the other two, emphasis on doctrine, poverty led to possible loss of believers, laissez fair attitude when it comes to private lives of the believers and their pagan histories, faithful to foundations of Christianity when it comes to doctrine and poverty. Inert. Mysticism.

Catholicism - lesson learned from losing strategy of Orthodoxy, rich, firm hierarchy, not allowing internal divisions, early Christian doctrine slightly adjusted, importance of resources understood, taxing its believers regularly, autocratic leadership, pompous, scaring and attracting with its impressive visual aspects, more active, missionaries christianization of distant populations, overarching the national borders, regulating the lives of the believers more thoroughly, wiser than Orthodoxy, I have to admit also beautiful

Protestantism - protest against taxing and firm hand that evolved to religion, modern, in accordance with accumulation of capital, pragmatical in all possible ways, regulating lives of the believers wiser than Catholicism, emphasis on pragmatic aspects of the company. Permissive in doctrine interpretations, allowing branching as long the that link to economy is not violated. Successful, young, related more to everyday life. Democratic leadership if that term could be used for Church.

that is how one average Serb atheists sees those three.


Roman Catholic Church is a part of CATHOLIC (all embracing ) Church , together with 23 Orthodox or Eastern catholic churches. Orthodox Churches see pope as a head ranked the same as patriarchs of other Eastern churches.

Catholic Church insists, sadly wrongly ;) on its continuity with early Christianity. Orthodoxy looks stupidly poor so I am guessing roots are there to be found ;)

Protestantism is not recognized within those limits.

I personally have nothing against any of three. I see all of them as companies, firms. First two are founded 2 millenniums ago as unlimited companies, the third one is younger, flexible, so it is Public LTD ;))

Orthodoxy-more loose,corruption,byzantine procedures,secrecy,dirty priests with beards
Catholicism-shaved priests,more shining outside lots of wrap
Protestantism-work ethics,very strict,very personal
In general orthodoxy makes you expand in spirituality and thinking outside the box,catholicism adds esthetics and glamor and protstantism makes you work disciplinely due to personal responsibility concept(in orthodox you can be excused after actions of love in catholicism after confession but for protestantism there is only harsh punishment as an option).

How to explain just in a few words what is typical for Orthodox Church?
In a nutshell, please?

Southern covers the part how Orthodox Church's PR works (dirty priest from his post), I am representing the values of Orthodoxy (excused from sins by actions of love), Crow the doctrine and its flexibility (loose, secrecy, byzantine procedures) ;)

that's it.

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Largely true, but I was referring to a spiritual similarity. Spiritually and theologically, there is a huge commonality between Orthodoxy and Anglicanism (who proclaim in their liturgy that they are part of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, as do the Orthodox). Administratively there are also excellent relations between the two communion, in many cases sharing buildings.