Let me first thank you for taking the time to read my post. I am here to ask some sincere questions and hope I can get some sincere answers (please do not sugar coat). I have come to really like many aspects of the culture in Eastern Europe and the orthodox lands (Russia, Greece, etc.). It looks like a much better place to raise a family than a lot of the western nations. I am very very conservative and love that many orthodox are morally similar in their stances. This mutual respect has really made wonder if I fit in with orthodoxy. I personally do not like Catholicism but do not quite consider myself a protestant as my faith is not based on a protest against Catholicism but based on Christ. I have read a few books that seem to suggest before 1066 and the Norman invasion with William the Conqueror that the British Church was an orthodox church until William put Catholic Bishops in charge. This British Orthodox church was apparently a church that did not keep Easter in the manner of the Catholic Church but were Quartodecimans. This has interested me in Orthodoxy as well. One of the major issues I have with becoming orthodox is the devotion to Mary and saints. I hope this does not offend you, but this something I am not accustomed to. The other issue would be the icons and images. I guess ultimately I am not interested in changing orthodoxy, and I would like to accept it on its terms. Can one be orthodox and not offer prayers or devotions to Mary and saints and not part take in iconography? Thank you for your responses.