tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2555487744976580528.post1001429393405678363..comments2023-11-02T07:44:36.283-07:00Comments on Orthodoxy and Recovery: Protestantism and IsolationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2555487744976580528.post-57771098303285393962013-03-15T05:20:15.728-07:002013-03-15T05:20:15.728-07:00This topic of isolation has caught my attention, t...This topic of isolation has caught my attention, though I am only beginning to understand it. Personally, I have been thinking about how lack of faith in a loving God leads to lack of love among us, and then this lack of love leads to isolation from each other. Simple thing to say, but if you remove love, then you can introduce things like the need for judging people and this in itself is already an (invisible) isolation from each other as persons, even though we might get together, or might even co-operate in various activities. <br /><br />Then, I was looking at a picture of a pope-mobile :), and was realizing that the only reason that bullet-proof thing is necessary is because of the way people perceive the position of the pope, as one who is better than everybody and needs to be protected. I mean the Orthodox Church has hierarchs, but they are generally very humble (or their position is) and they travel freely without much protection, and yet nothing ever happens to them. Again, there is this invisible layer of separation that is only caused by how the image of the pope is perceived. Ioanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14661789901773565662noreply@blogger.com