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<blockquote data-quote="Yeagerist" data-source="post: 1592717" data-attributes="member: 24726">This thread is entitled &quot;Orthodox view of history&quot; yet nobody on this thread has mentioned the millennium-long period of the Christian Roman Empire (330-1453 AD) a.k.a Byzantium, the study of which is absolutely crucial in developing this Orthodox Christian worldview of history, primarily because it disproves a lot of secular narratives on Western history. Most especially the claim that the Roman Empire fell in the 5th Century and that Christianity caused it. How could y'all possibly miss this....Also the other thing that makes me cringe is all this &quot;America bad, Russia good&quot; dichotomy. The United States, despite any and all reason you hate it, still had offered religious freedom which enabled Eastern Orthodoxy to flourish especially during the trying times of Bolshevik tyranny over Russia. And arguably the fastest and most vocal demographic of young Eastern Orthodox folks are online American converts, while the ethnic cradles in the diasporas more often than not treat the Church as an ethnic club for immigrants.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yeagerist, post: 1592717, member: 24726"] This thread is entitled "Orthodox view of history" yet nobody on this thread has mentioned the millennium-long period of the Christian Roman Empire (330-1453 AD) a.k.a Byzantium, the study of which is absolutely crucial in developing this Orthodox Christian worldview of history, primarily because it disproves a lot of secular narratives on Western history. Most especially the claim that the Roman Empire fell in the 5th Century and that Christianity caused it. How could y'all possibly miss this.... Also the other thing that makes me cringe is all this "America bad, Russia good" dichotomy. The United States, despite any and all reason you hate it, still had offered religious freedom which enabled Eastern Orthodoxy to flourish especially during the trying times of Bolshevik tyranny over Russia. And arguably the fastest and most vocal demographic of young Eastern Orthodox folks are online American converts, while the ethnic cradles in the diasporas more often than not treat the Church as an ethnic club for immigrants. [/QUOTE]

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