I heard a priest from Damascus saying that the king Abdullah told the
Patriarch of Antioch these words: “You, Orthodox, the way you look, make us
Muslims respect you as men of religion, while those western priests seem like
agents of suspect affairs.”
Western Christianity lost its ecumenical, global, character, because, as
we said, it was reduced to a worldly system by the wish to be adapted every
time to every epoch, so that nothing remained there immovable, nothing of
“religion”, while mohammedanism, although Koran is a crude variation of the
Gospel, kept until today its ecumenical character. ...
Everywhere a hodga has the look that reminds his prophet,
while the priests and pastors of the West have no external resemblance with
the leader of their religion, and sometimes, you think that they aim not to
be like Him at all, but to resemble their pagan ancestors.
As
an example I mention the two leaders, of the Eastern and the Western
Christianity, Patriarch Athenagoras and Pope Paul, who met with each other
in Jerusalem.
Look at the photographs and you will see that these two
persons are different in everything, despite they say that they are
archpriests of the same religion. Observe their appearance and you will know
how true this is: the one, the Patriarch, has a priestly look, with beard
and long hair, as the Christ had, he wears wide cloth, eastern, as were,
more or less, the clothes that they had at the places where Christ appeared,
while the Pope is shaved like the ancient Romans and wears a tiny scull-cap
and his clothes are made-up, in a word, nothing of his exterior is such,
that when you see him you remember the Christ or the holy Apostles - and yet
these two priests say they are archpriests of the same religion. ...
As an example I mention the two leaders, of the Eastern and the Western Christianity, Patriarch Athenagoras and Pope Paul, who met with each other in Jerusalem.
