A Protestant Learns About Greek Orthodoxy

[The Lawspeaker]

Greek Orthodoxy has always been a bit of a mystery to me, and I wanted to get a clearer sense of what it's all about so I drove down to the Assumption Cathedral in Denver, Colorado and spent the morning getting answers straight from the source. Huge thanks to Father Chris Margaritis for taking the time to hang out! This video literally happened because there are people on the Internet who've decided to support this channel. They, no doubt, don't agree with me about every single thing in the Bible and Christianity, but they overlook that and help make this channel happen anyways and that means a ton to me.

[catgeorge]

Church's in Greece don't look like that. That's American Orthodox with links to Greek Orthodox .. Greece is very different to this.

[Faklon]

Yes, chruches in Greece don't look so funky but overall his representation is good. And it's Eastern Orthodoxy, it's just the liturgy in the particular building that it's conducted in Greek but the church is bigger.

[Annihilus]

kitsch and idolatry come to mind

[The Lawspeaker]

kitsch and idolatry come to mind

Hoor ik daar de Islamiet of een calvinist ? Al die valsche Paepsche stoutigheden ende superstitiën... Gomarus and his disgusting ilk.

[Annihilus]

Hoor ik daar de Islamiet of een calvinist ?

Zoals je weet ben ik niet religieus maar als je er per se een naam op wilt plakken, calvinist.

[The Lawspeaker]

Zoals je weet ben ik niet religieus maar als je er per se een naam op wilt plakken, calvinist.

Calvinist. Onze eigen homegrown Taliban. Het stelletje beeldenstormers. Daar hoeven we ISIS niet voor te importeren... !

[Faklon]

kitsch and idolatry come to mind

Part of adapting to modernity and the protestant norms of the US, chruches in Greece look more "humble/austere" and barely anyone notices the art for more than what it represents.

[Thanas Django]

kitsch and idolatry come to mind

Please describe your impressions further. Don't just stay at the 1-sentence response you learned from your Türk kittapi.

[Annihilus]

Please describe your impressions further. Don't just stay at the 1-sentence response you learned from your Türk kittapi.

I won't because I am not really interested in churches, I will leave it at my first impression.

If you think all my thoughts and opinions come from some sort of Turkish conditioning you are mistaken. My opinion here comes from my upbringing here in the Netherlands. I don't see a church, I see something that belongs in the Efteling.