dzheremi
Coptic Orthodox non-Egyptian
- Aug 27, 2014
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Similar things have been happening in post-Soviet Armenia with the Armenian Apostolic Church, Pavel, generally spearheaded by businessmen who like to build churches. The predictable complaint there is "couldn't he have reopened a factory there instead to employ people?", so it seems that no matter what is done or not done, someone or perhaps a lot of someones will be unhappy. (Something different can always be done; this reminds me of the atheist/secular complaint that the Vatican could supposedly sell off its priceless art and eliminate poverty around the world or whatever, which is dumb as all get out.)
Don't mean to drag things off topic (though I don't have much to say about whatever happens in Moscow), but I just wanted to point out that this phenomenon is not just an 'EO thing', despite the fact that it may seem from the outside to be more prominent in EO-majority countries. (I would guess similar things probably happened in a much more direct way in Ethiopia prior to the coup that ended the monarchy there in the 1970s, but I don't know. Today it's probably not like that, as evidenced by the fact that they've got a crazy Pentecostal guy as prime minister. Yikes.)
Don't mean to drag things off topic (though I don't have much to say about whatever happens in Moscow), but I just wanted to point out that this phenomenon is not just an 'EO thing', despite the fact that it may seem from the outside to be more prominent in EO-majority countries. (I would guess similar things probably happened in a much more direct way in Ethiopia prior to the coup that ended the monarchy there in the 1970s, but I don't know. Today it's probably not like that, as evidenced by the fact that they've got a crazy Pentecostal guy as prime minister. Yikes.)
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