(Onion Dome) - In presenting Orthodoxy to the West, it is important to emphasize similarities between the Orthodox and other Christian faith communities. For those who have a hard time determining what those similarities might be, here is a handy list.
- Pentecostals speak in strange tongues nobody understands.
- Orthodox worship in Greek and Slavonic.
- Calvinists use strange foreign words like "sola fides" and "sola gratis".
- Orthodox use strange foreign words like "interjurisdictional" and "patriarchate".
- Wesleyans believe in a warming of the heart that indicates salvation.
- Orthodox have a warming of hearty fare that indicates a potluck.
- Catholics have wonderful pilgrimage destinations in warm, sunny places like Spain and Italy.
- Orthodox have wonderful pilgrimage destinations in northern Russia and Alaska.
- Church of God in Christ women wear beautiful hats.
- Orthodox bishops wear hats.
- Lutherans have a warm and friendly informal spokesman in Garrison Keillor.
- Orthodox have Franky Schaeffer.
- Baptists have a tacit agreement to not recognize each other in the liquor store.
- Orthodox have a tacit agreement to not recognize each other in the cheese aisle during Lent.
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Many of these made me giggle, but particuarly the last one.
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