As for your question: I am cradle Orthodox, "made in Serbia." What about you? An apostate?
Now, am I entitled to an opinion? Thank you.
For your information, it's a fact that the so-called Eastern Catholic churches are now trying to recapture and revive their Orthodox roots and shed latinization. Perhaps you may wish to ask yourself why.
I don't think it's any secret why. They felt it necessary or perhaps were compelled to Latinize, and that was a big pastoral mistake. This is now being corrected.
Up till the early 1900s were not the Orthodox in the patriarchal sees of Alexandria and Antioch using the Byzantine Rite exclusively and not their own?
Excursus. "If I need grammatical advice I will ask for one." Insert comma after "advice" and replace "one" with "it".
I am not an apostate. I am a cradle Roman Catholic with very good friends in several of the Eastern Catholic Churches.
You and Graves together provided us with these edifying words:
YOU: "Personally, I think 'pittiful' (sic) is a much better term for these churches."
GRAVES: "Just my personal opinion but how about, pitiful, pathetic & perfidious?"
You are certainly entitled to your opinion. Just as I am entitled to point out when I think that opinion is snide and uncharitable. It is certainly true that the Eastern Catholic Churches are trying to reverse centuries of latinization. You can make that point without succumbing to the temptation of being your own snide self by adding "so-called." To you, perhaps, they are "so-called," just as I might well consider the Serbian Church a "so-called" Orthodox Church. But it would be snide and uncharitable of me to refer to your Church that way.
The fact remains that both you and Graves were snide and uncharitable in your remarks. After reading Alexy II's nonsense about the Kazan icon, I'm beginning to wonder if that isn't a genetic component of "pure Orthodoxy."