The old believers were probably good at rushin, but the Catholics probably have top notch facilities, trainers, coaches, etc. because of their exceptional organizational skills. I'm going to guess that the game plan for neither team was working, but while the old believers refused to change, the Catholics developed their plan, and so the Catholics won in the end?Hawkeye said:
You're right on the money. At 14-26, the Catholics won this round. Since it was a home game too, I imagine my brothers in the Old Rite have gone home in disgrace.Justin Kissel said:
Theoretically, the "Old Believer" schools out here are public but, due to their locations in out-of-the-way villages, they tend to lack any religious or ethnic diversity beyond the faculty. Roughly every decade or so, a non-Old Believer kid might start attending but they tend not to stay for the long haul. I recall one when was in kindergarten and another in 10th grade, neither of whom were there the following year.Porter ODoran said:
That's right. Starting a school involves organizing and organizing sounds suspiciously Catholic. Always remember Peter the Great. He started to organize Holy Russia and the result was Westertn Captivity. Who knows, maybe an own school would lead into mathematics which predisposes kids to Scholastisism. We wouldn't want that, wouldn't we?Porter ODoran said:
This site lists 54 Orthodox schools, and according to the Krindatch data there are about 800k Orthodox in America. That works out to about 14815 Orthodox for every 1 school. According to this site there are 6,594 Catholic schools in America, and there are about 78.2m Catholic Church members in America. That works out to about 11859 Catholics for every 1 Catholic school. Certainly the Orthodox don't have anything like the Catholics in reputation, size, etc., but based on how many schools we might expect the Orthodox to be able to support (financial and other resources) just based on Church membership numbers, things aren't so much different.Porter ODoran said:
I have no idea about the particulars of Orthodox schools up through the high school level. As for accredited schools of higher education in America that are Orthodox, so far as I can tell, there is one liberal arts school that grants Bachelors degrees, one liberal arts school that grants bachelors and masters degrees, two schools that grant a bachelors degree in Theology only, three seminaries/theological schools that grant Masters degrees related to theology/ministry, one seminary/theological school that grants both Masters degrees and a Doctoral degree, and various others (diploma and correspondence courses, several unaccredited seminary programs, etc.) The Antiochians also are apparently associated with a Masters program and a Doctoral program, in conjunction (and largely based through) other schools not associated with the Archdiocese.Porter ODoran said:
An earnest young evangelist for atheistic thinking, aren't you? You don't tire, you don't flag. You don't lose your temper. I find it touching.Justin Kissel said:
Neither of you seem to tire, how do you both find the time for posting such long posts riddled with sophormorism while working 40 plus hours a week? At least one with a family as well?Porter ODoran said:
I would love to have the kind of consistency you speak of! Though if I got to choose what to be consistent at, I wouldn't settle on either evangelism or atheism... 8)Porter ODoran said:
Sophomormonism. At least get your epithets right.orthonorm said:
I made a really dark joke about this site, where it claims "Find God's match in you." A woman got raped when being matched with someone from this site. So does that mean "Find God's wrath in you"?Agabus said:This image is 100 percent real.
I suspect it will inspire even more laughs than God's Not Dead's depictions of atheists.
In addition -- tho I don't know why I feel compelled to reveal this here -- I do try to work from home, mostly programming, but I have an auto-immune illness that is making this difficult, with generalized pain and anxiety, mental disorientation, and other symptoms. Perhaps I come here to stew in old habits the way wiser patients would take a warm bath.Porter ODoran said:
Doubt. :Porter ODoran said:
^This.TheTrisagion said:
About what?Justin Kolodziej said:Doubt. :Porter ODoran said:
It is due to the number of St. Seraphim of Sarov-like saints we have that reside here. We are just animal magnets.DeniseDenise said:
Years ago, a very, very tall deer tried to run me off the road. How rude! I let him go, though.DeniseDenise said:
This week, my word is actually three words: Most Holy Theotokos.Justin Kissel said:
It's perfectly normal for more advanced students of wordsmithing and wordhandling such as us to use several words or a slightly longer phrase. As for myself, I am eager to continue working into conversations my own WORD OF THE WEEK this week, 'tootsie pop explosion.'Mor Ephrem said:
Every town has schools. They will always need teachers.TheMathematician said:
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