Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] feuds
From: ksherman <ksherman@cottenmusic.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:00:50 -0500

amen.

kim


At 08:49 AM 5/15/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Sometimes a disagreement takes on a life of its own.
>
>If you read the newspapers at all (I just look at the pictures, myself)
>you will have noticed that Pope John Paul II, head of the Roman
>Catholic Church, visited Greece, a stronghold of the Orthodox church,
>and was not exactly welcome.
>
>For about 1000 years there was, more or less, one church. In 1054 AD
>there was a big fight, and the Christian church broke into two major
>groups. The Pope's visit to Greece was the first visit since 1054 by
>the leader of one side to a stronghold of the other side.
>
>What was the fight about? Almost nothing, seen through the lens of
>history. The Roman church wanted the Nicene Creed to say "the Holy
>Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life, proceeds from the Father and the
>Son", while the Eastern Church (centered in Constantinople) didn't like
>the words "and the Son" at the end. That phrase is called "the
>filioque" "feel e OH kay", and arguing about it has lasted a thousand
>years, a dozen crusades, sacking, burning, pillaging, and so forth.
>
>Was it worth it? Not for us to decide. Sometimes the feud is life
>itself, and when people stop feuding they no longer have any reason to
>exist.
>
>Find it in you to ignore people that you are convinced are wrong.
>Whether what they are wrong about is lens sharpness, or whether the
>Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son or just from the
>Father, it is not worth the combat.