• vimmiewimmie@lemm.ee
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    5 hours ago

    A younger brother of mine just baptized into an Orthodox church nearby. Is this the same thing?

    • 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org
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      4 hours ago

      The Russian Orthodox are in schism from most other Orthodox. You’ll need to get more information to get an answer to that question.

      Russian Orthodoxy was established from it’s foundation as a fake religion that exists to keep political power in Moscow. This is very different from other Orthodox.

    • TooManyFoods@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      There’s several. I don’t know if the Greek Orthodox are doing the same machoism, but they’re related