Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]amen. kim At 08:49 AM 5/15/01 -0700, you wrote: >Sometimes a disagreement takes on a life of its own. > >If you read the newspapers at all (I just look at the pictures, myself) >you will have noticed that Pope John Paul II, head of the Roman >Catholic Church, visited Greece, a stronghold of the Orthodox church, >and was not exactly welcome. > >For about 1000 years there was, more or less, one church. In 1054 AD >there was a big fight, and the Christian church broke into two major >groups. The Pope's visit to Greece was the first visit since 1054 by >the leader of one side to a stronghold of the other side. > >What was the fight about? Almost nothing, seen through the lens of >history. The Roman church wanted the Nicene Creed to say "the Holy >Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life, proceeds from the Father and the >Son", while the Eastern Church (centered in Constantinople) didn't like >the words "and the Son" at the end. That phrase is called "the >filioque" "feel e OH kay", and arguing about it has lasted a thousand >years, a dozen crusades, sacking, burning, pillaging, and so forth. > >Was it worth it? Not for us to decide. Sometimes the feud is life >itself, and when people stop feuding they no longer have any reason to >exist. > >Find it in you to ignore people that you are convinced are wrong. >Whether what they are wrong about is lens sharpness, or whether the >Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son or just from the >Father, it is not worth the combat.