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Or the ceaseless persecution of the non-Chalcedonians by the Byzantine Orthodox empire.

I've pointed out a number of times to rakovsky that I have literally never met any Anglican clergy who do not confess the Lord's body in the Eucharist.  And I am in agreement with them.

If you want to talk apostolic, like talk St. Basil.  In his great letter in which he differentiates schism from heresy, referring to the Holy Spirit among schismatics he says: for it ceased to be imparted when the continuity was broken. Or you could look at the Council of Carthage, where such...

Do you, at the very least, see how language like this suggests you don't actually want a conversation?

And here's the evidence that you don't want an actual discussion.

Also, I'd much prefer to belong to the kind of church that Mor's photos depict, than I would to a church whose monks get into fist-fights every Pascha, and whose priests and monks support violence against gay people.

Are you primarily talking to Orthodox in the US?  Because if so, I'd agree.  Most of them seem to support reunion between the EO and OO.  But, I'm not so certain that holds elsewhere. And as to the Episcopalians being whatever you and Mor think they are, what relevance does that have to...

I will, I keep meaning to.  But I want to wait until I have time to craft a truly thoughtful response.

And yet, from the stand point of your church, they are sects.  And a great many in your church think they hold heretical dogmas and theology (such as a large number of those on Mt. Athos).

You say you're GOARCH.  You are aware that the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church are not in communion, right?

The prevailing evangelical/hardline Protestant view about the Oriental Orthodox (and also the Assyrians) is summed up in one word: Who?

Umm.....wow. 

That's how St. Nektarios used female decaons, IIRC.

Yeah, but this is a Godless papist religious institution.

A while back, I became acquainted with Metropolitan Mykhayil Javchak Champion of the Ukrainian Autochephalous Orthodox Church in the Americas, via Facebook.  He offered to ordain me.