03-10-2010, 02:46 PM
Hello Kevin,
I did not read the article you posted, but I will just go ahead and assume it was written by someone that doesn't even correctly understand the theology of the Church of the East. Moreover, historically there is only one branch of the Holy Church that was established outside of the Roman influence (i.e. the Church of the East). Furthermore, for the first 600 years of our existance there was no such thing as Muslims, so how can you rationally think that they influenced our religious texts when (at least according to you) it was already standardized a century before Muhammad even was born! That is the type of ignorance that bothers me when Westerners try to explain Eastern history to Easterners.
Imagine me telling you that I know more about you than you do (yet I have never met you and don't understand your language), simply because I study the way one of your cousins acts! Unfortunately, that is exactly what you and so many others do when comparing us using the Syriac Orthodox Church as the "authority" of all Aramaic speaking communities.
I honestly mean no disrespect to you or any of my brothers and sisters in Christ, but objective reasoning precludes me from taking anything you say with anything other than a grain of salt.
God Bless,
-Nimrod Warda-
I did not read the article you posted, but I will just go ahead and assume it was written by someone that doesn't even correctly understand the theology of the Church of the East. Moreover, historically there is only one branch of the Holy Church that was established outside of the Roman influence (i.e. the Church of the East). Furthermore, for the first 600 years of our existance there was no such thing as Muslims, so how can you rationally think that they influenced our religious texts when (at least according to you) it was already standardized a century before Muhammad even was born! That is the type of ignorance that bothers me when Westerners try to explain Eastern history to Easterners.
Imagine me telling you that I know more about you than you do (yet I have never met you and don't understand your language), simply because I study the way one of your cousins acts! Unfortunately, that is exactly what you and so many others do when comparing us using the Syriac Orthodox Church as the "authority" of all Aramaic speaking communities.
I honestly mean no disrespect to you or any of my brothers and sisters in Christ, but objective reasoning precludes me from taking anything you say with anything other than a grain of salt.
God Bless,
-Nimrod Warda-