On Aug 22, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
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.
Yes, Rasputin represented the very best Orthodoxy had to offer. if I
took a word association test the first word that would come to mind
after “Russian Orthodox Church” would be *pogrom* and the first name
*Beilis*.
Shane Mage
"L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce
qu'on a apporté."
Bardo Thodol
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