Do you mind if I quote a passage from Dostoyevsky's "Brother's Karamazov"? " 'You've got it all wrong, sir,' Father Paissy said severely. 'It is not the Church that is transformed into the State. Please understand that. That is Rome and its dream. That is the third temptation of the devil. On the contrary, the State is transformed into the Church, it rises to it and becomes a Church all over the world-which is the complete opposite of Ultramontanism and Rome and your interpretation of it, and is only the great predetermined destiny of the Orthodox Church on earth. This star will shine in the east!'" - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Brother's Karamazov" For reasons that escape me, it has become vogue to describe the church in America as "cold," "ineffective," and "lukewarm." If one relegates himself to a narrow slice of history, no doubt this would be the case. However, what every Christian ought to be
Ha ha!!! And did he actually taste chalk after such a punny moment??
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