Matt Chats invited me back for a brief segment to discuss the history of church and state and how this relates to legal theory and canon law. We touch on transcendental arguments and Byzantium and church history.
After weeks of smack talk and insults, the Kurgan and I squared off in a debate. Within 20 minutes the debate was over as soon as he said “Ludwig Denzinger.” The unbridled arrogance and hours of vitriol he spewed in his videos was shown to be exactly what I said – hot air. I told him I would not “be nice,” and I wasn’t. It wasn’t even a debate.
In an interview with the Serbian newspapers Politika and Vecernje Novosti ahead of his visit to Serbia, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted the creation of the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine”, a schismatic agglomeration headed by Ukrainian ultra-nationalists was “dangerous politicking.” He further noted that:
This piece is reprinted almost entirely from its original posting on orthochristian.com. We hope it offers a clear perspective that shared across the Orthodox Christian world regarding the recent moves by the Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, in regards to the legitimization of two canonically schismatic church communities in Ukraine.
