I support Orthodox solidarity. Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, FYROM, Greece, Cyprus, Georgia, Armenia, also parts of Lebanon and Albania.
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I support Orthodox solidarity. Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, FYROM, Greece, Cyprus, Georgia, Armenia, also parts of Lebanon and Albania.
And the idea that the Roman Empire wasn't equivalent to the entire world and was divinely-ordained by Jupiter to rule the world didn't exist at all? Or does it take a Semitic deity to inspire that kind of idea? :eek: The bonds of Roman citizenship, patriotism, devotion to the state and its gods didn't motivate disparate ethnicities? :eek:
and a loyal ally of the Christian Crusaders was Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia ;)
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Last King of Cilicia...buried in Basilique Saint-Denis near Paris:
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Religion is, at the end of the day, just a part of a group identity. Every human creates his own idealised image of "God", and since we're collectivist animals by nature, each human collective will have their own distinct "God" that fits them best as people. Their religious practices and laws will just derive from their ethnic character that already existed.
As has been said before, a Catholic Pole has almost nothing in common with a Catholic Filipino. They're simply not "brothers" on any level. These universalist religions, despite all the heads-in-the-clouds idealism, very rarely turn out to be universal. In the end, our human differences are just too great.