[ArrogantBustard]

ROFLMAO!!! That's a really unbiased source. No agenda there. Try reading the Latin side of the story too. You look it up. 'Educate yourself', ideed.

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[j.havenfarm]

Well, let me wade in here. Depsite the fact that I am a Catholic, I've quite a bit of material on the subject. Yes, stuff less biased than Gipper's account. It is more than obvious that, for centuries the Orthodox chafed under the Peope's claim of being "primus inter pares," that is, "first maong equals." I think the fairest and most accurate way to view the split is that there came a fork in the road. Both the Latin and Greek traditions dated back to the very earliest times, and to suggest that either came into being in 1054 is just silly. The two churches have lifted the mutual excommunications, and each recognizes the validity of the sacraments of the other.