I did. My question was poorly phrased. Don't you think it could apply to Catholics and Orthodox? IOW, let's call ourselves Christian. No?
we have some of the same problems, but not as big as what is happening among the Protestant denominations at this point
part of the problem among Protestants is that they no longer understand the differances between the denominations, they look at all of them as being equal and thus it does not matter, this leads to more church hopping and people not putting down roots, insted of a congregation, made up of the same families generation after generation you have minestries that come and go with the changing of the wind
now there are problems in the Orthodox and Catholic Churches, but the people in both churches still have a strong idea of belonging to that particular Church, maybe not like they did 50 years ago, but still a lot better then the Protestant denominations have it now
This Orthodox guy hopes so!
I can not stress this enough
this is NOT something to be happy about!
think of the early Church when along with orthodox teachings gnostics teachings ran around, at times even the roman emperors were gnostic
allways compeating with eachother
if the mainline Protestant denominations fall apart this is what it will be like agian
catholics are like what 25% of the american population? how much are the EO? and then there will be the left over skeletal remains of the Mainline denominations and Evanglelical churches.... and then there will be chaos worse then it is now, New Age teachings, revisionist history, gnosticism
I mean we have all those things now, bnut it will be worse, and as being part of the culture it will effect members of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches as well
and before you say "oh that would not happen to us" do I have to remind you of the times when allmost the entire East was gnostic?