“ he’s recognizing that fact as an emphasis to show Russia is an outlier when it comes to principal tenets of Christianity.”
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Sorry… then THIS Non-Christian is DECREEING THAT ALL (e.g., Greek, Ukrainian) OF ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY is an outlier. How friggin’ presumptuous!
“Sorry… then THIS Non-Christian is DECREEING THAT ALL (e.g., Greek, Ukrainian) OF ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY is an outlier. How friggin’ presumptuous!”
Well, they are. Think about it: They only subscribe to the Julian calendar for movable religious feats; they follow the Gregorian calendar for everything else.
Orthodox Christianity is followed by about 225 million people, whereas the total population of Christians worldwide is 2.4 BILLION. Thus, the Orthodox number is less than 10% of the total number of Christians. In statistics — depending on the model — that would constitute an outlier; in other statistical models it would not.
That’s not presumptuous.