8th August 2003, 12:51 AM
You made strong statements that nobody these days cares about the fall of Constantinople. That is just untrue, as I said. No, you didn't deny a schism, but you essentially denied that anyone cares about said schism anymore... which is obviously wrong...
Because of course it went back way before the fall of Constantinople. That really happened after they were pretty much split... but it inflamed hatreds, especially among the Orthodox, that really have contributed a lot to the continuing refusal of both sides to fully recant their hatreds... so it IS still quite relevant. You denied that!
Oh, and it is precisely because of what you say -- that they have essentially irreconsiliable differences -- that makes either side forgiving the sack of constantinople so, so hard that they still haven't done it 800 years later. :)
Because of course it went back way before the fall of Constantinople. That really happened after they were pretty much split... but it inflamed hatreds, especially among the Orthodox, that really have contributed a lot to the continuing refusal of both sides to fully recant their hatreds... so it IS still quite relevant. You denied that!
Oh, and it is precisely because of what you say -- that they have essentially irreconsiliable differences -- that makes either side forgiving the sack of constantinople so, so hard that they still haven't done it 800 years later. :)
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