On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/08/22/hating-russian-orthodoxy/


Maybe I am behind the times, but if I took a word association test the
first word that would come to mind after “Russian Orthodox Church” would be
“Rasputin”.


That's why word association is a dangerous game when you take it too
seriously. As I recall, and a few minutes on Google confirm, Rasputin never
held any position of responsibility within the Church, never received a
single title or honor from it, and in fact had legendary clashes with its
hierarchy. He's objectively less representative of Russian Orthodoxy than
Dorothy Day, who's at least in the canonization pipeline, is of Roman
Catholicism.

-- 
"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
lytlað."
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