The bottom line here is whether you believe what you confess in the Creed. You have avoided that critical point.
This “Frankish church” business is so much rubbish, embalmed political grudges, and simple jealousy. Not that different from this week’s epidemic of papal paranoia. Is there anything more ridiculous than this spectacle of anglican patriots doggedly patrolling the Dover cliffs to spot the papal armada lurking just over the horizon? Or that of those who talk a good game but — finally offered everything and more than they’d asked for — discover that their faith is really more about what they oppose than what they affirm?
“The bottom line here is whether you believe what you confess in the Creed. You have avoided that critical point.”
What nonsense is this? Do you doubt for one moment that Orthodox Christians fully mean it when they recite the Creed and have preserved the Creed inviolate, unlike the Latins under the tutelage of the Franks?