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Let's start with the only fact there is: you (and I) don't really know what EP "accepted", how they see the situation, or how they chose to handle it. Also, one fact you ignore is that along with a phoney "ROCOR bishop", the ordinations in question were performed by Ioann (Bodnarchuk), who at...

OK, let's play by the rules of this rotten game called "geopolitics" and assume you're right. ("Hybrid war" is a term for what others call "asymmetrical warfare" or "Gerassimov Doctrine", btw). OK, let's say there's war. Which side are you on? ?"Western Powers", or KGB-Mafia clan in Kremlin...

Ukraine IS Rus. Being part of the Protean imperial entity that seeks to monopolize that name is not a requirement. Submission to a branch of House of Holstein or to the current KGB-Mafia alliance does not a Rus make. GOARCH's take is factually accurate. EP is Ukraine's Mother Church that had...

I'm not sure it can be answered with "yes" or "no". Ukraine has far stronger military than in 2013, but the conflict still isn't gone.

That's a new one. Care to elaborate? On Ukraine, situation is much simpler. Moscow is the aggressor. That's it. Theories that seem to imply "revolutionary insurgents" are agents of "NATO" (which is a treaty, so not sure what would being "agent" of it even be) and Ukraine's internal...

Plain wording then: MP is complicit in wars in Ukraine, Syria, and one can argue Georgia, yet people are "concerned" with EP. How can this be right?

Yawn. In more serious note, EP concern trolling lately (and especially since Ukraine) hit notes that make me think "why aren't these people Old Calendarist yet?". Fear mongering and purity fetishes and conspiracy theories are basically the same.

People who think EP has become "abusive" should try to live under the MP for a century or three. I mean, seriously?

Well, clearly I'm not familiar with the details. Wikipedia is a bit vague, but apparently the bishops from Church of Finland (EP) stepped in and eventually ordained ones for Estonia. No clue whether or not EP excommunicated any of the participating priests.

I really don't think it's satanic; no more nor less than various national ID number systems small groups of Christians (including Orthodox) tend to obsess about. ...well, if one MUST think about the details of Antichrist's One World Government or whatever, I guess computers will be part of it's...

\No. What this refers to is how EP re-established it's autonomous jurisdiction over objections of the MP, leading to a brief 1996 schism between EP and MP. Currently, EP and MP jurisdictions co-exist in Estonia (not sure how peacefully, but at least there's no schism). MP version attracts...

In practice, it is simply infrastructure for providing government services over Internet. Estonia is famous for this; in Ukraine, the newest government had "digitalization" as a prominent part of what these clowns passed off as their "platform" (not sure if even they know what they mean by that).

What's your objection to Dec. 25th for Feast of Nativity? "Culture is important" is as good an argument to try to move away from Russian aggressors as much as possible; they learned to play culture as a fiddle for centuries now. Having said that, most likely, they'll not move the date any time...

I hope this does illustrate how rational people in Russia bubble get. I guess it is understandable if you realize just how much propaganda they got from their ББЗ ("ballistic defense towers" - mind control tech in a cult Russian scifi novel. Also, Russian TV).

...yet somehow I have a hunch all existing autocephalies are safe. Even Moscow. Well, maybe except OCA.

I have faith that the Lord will not abandon His children in Ukraine, Fr. Matt. Despite our many sins. Call it a hunch. As for history books, they would show that established autocephalies can be abolished. So technically this can happen to all "new" churches Moscow onwards - but will it? I...

Dude, ROC-Kremlin ties are common knowledge in Russia. Would be hard to ignore seeing how Patr. Kirill (codename "Mikhailov") openly sits on Ministry of Defence "collegiums" and is entitled to (and use) the use of Federal Protection Service and government protected communications. Most...

Not all accept this autocephaly (which would imply that OCA has all of America for a canonical territory), and what does it make then? SIMILARLY, ROCinU strenuously object to this name, insists that it is the "Ukrainian Orthodox Church", and even (more strenuously) tries to claim that it is...

OCU supporters are a big group. Some say that ROCinU is an intelligence front of the adversarial State (and parts of it is just that). Mostly, though, ROCinU is seen as just that - Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine, part of the recognized, canonical Church outside of their proper territory...

You'll see.