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Re: rushing—I didn't mean to say you were. Really I was talking more about my own experience. My 1st priest rushed me a bit, in fact.

Do I believe that Orthodoxy is "the Church". Yeah, I do. So, don't mistake me. But there's more to being Orthodox than being officially a member of the Orthodox Church and ascribing to her teachings. Ultimately we are the betrothed to Christ. It's about love and desire for Christ. Orthodoxy is the best place to live that reality. But there's truth and there's sectarianism. The one will set us free, the other binds us into ever diminishing circles, an inward spiral, the cerberus eating it's own tail, choose your prefered image.

I just hate when I see Orthodox who will sing the praises of the pagan philosophers while cursing the "heterodox" Christians. God's truth isn't snuffed out completely in any corner—wherever we find it, we should praise God for it.

It's important, too, to realize how expansive and broad the experience of the church is. But there are lots of pockets here and there than make it out to seem much less so. When confronted with this after my conversion it was very challenging. Still working things out in regards to al this, myself.