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Your outbursts reflect badly on yourself and the faith you espouse.

Whenever there is a piece which extols JP II's role in undermining atheistic communism, the greatest naysayers are invariably those who claim to be Orthodox, rather than others who might be expected to have a greater animus, such as Jews, atheists, Protestants or pagans.

Maybe this is because Orthodoxy's own contribution to the opposition of communism, was at best, unremarkable.

Yes, thousands of dead priests is sooo unremarkable. You are so right. I am so sorry, we should be kissing your arse, especially when our other great liberators had so much Vatican support, you know those nifty northern guys from Germany: the Nazies.

I have nothing directly against Catholicism, except on the theological level...but when you act hunky doory like nothing is wrong, you insult our intelligence by making the last millinium of transgressions seem indifferent...well they are not. As things stand now, you'll have a better chance of reunifying with the 40 thousand + branches of protestantism then with Orthodoxy.

If you want our forgiveness for your transgressions, as Christians we'll give it to you but if you want us to simply forget them or ignore them while singing your praises then, brother, I can only say: get off the crack...it's killing your brain cells.

When ever Catholics start talking to us Orthodox it almost always comes down to trying to talk to us like some errant children who've wondered away from their parents...the prodical sons...well sorry, we're not. So next time you can't figure out where the hostility is coming from, try for once to see things form our point of view...and we are not your prodical children...you were the ones who Schismed and invented dogma on the fly.

You dishonor the memory of the Holy Martyrs of the Bolshevik Yoke and the Royal Passion Bearers of Russia. More pious Orthodox Christians died as martyrs in the last century than in all the prior centuries of the Church combined. 40,000 priest, monks and nuns were killed, and millions of laymen martyred. No, it's not the kind of "opposition to communism" one usually thinks of, but it is the kind of opposition to be expected from those who are not of this world, but merely in it.

Holy Martyrs of Russia pray for us!

Holy Tsar Nicholas, Royal Passion Bearer, pray for us!

Maybe this is because Orthodoxy's own contribution to the opposition of communism, was at best, unremarkable.

Yes, we are a passive faith and a nonworldly one. But it sure beats thinking you are more powerful than God in making world changes, or more knowledgeable than God as to which changes are necessary.