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I'm Serbian, so I know a lot about the split of the churches, my people (Serbs and Croatians) have suffered the consequences since it happened, one people divided by this split of the religion, thousand years later you have the 20th century Balkans.
Orthodox Christianity simply means 'closest to original teachings' so how it was supposed to work according to Christ's teachings. This is the original Christianity. When Roman side declared Pope to be 'God on Earth', the Byzantine side held the opinion that it is a heretical action, because God is God, a human can't 'be' God aka have god-like power over others. Also, due to priests being 'sort of God' they were allowed to forgive many sins. This was very attractive to the believers, and certainly, over the thousand plus years, many a criminal was a regular church-goer in a belief that as long ast hey are going, and paying, they'll get into heaven. This is also why Catholics were so successful at conquering a lot of the world with their beliefs, it's certainly a lot more attractive than orthodoxy. This became most appaling in Middle Ages, when priests put a price list and people had to pay for every act of forgiving their sins, so much so that people were starving on the streets whilst he church got obscenely rich. Obviously, orthodox side thought this is heresy, and Protestants, well, protested by distancing themselves crom RCC.
On the global level, I see many conflicts today as representative of this thousand-year long ideological battle, the US/EU-Russia, Serbs-Croats, Catholic vs Orthodox Ukraininians, etc, you can trace the animosity back to that chasm. Like in the Middle East, Shia-Sunni, more or less.
As for your questions, I think all this means is that they are trying to negotiate the end to the thousand-year long animosity. This is all apart of the offensive by the Catholic church to repair their extremely damaged reputation. As for reunification, Orthodoxy can invite them to return to original Christian values, and to repent, as they have done since the beginning, which of course Catholc church will never accept. I don't think their conversation will even go in that direction, because the outcome is so clear. It's all a performance for the cameras, imo.
Orthodox Christianity simply means 'closest to original teachings' so how it was supposed to work according to Christ's teachings. This is the original Christianity. When Roman side declared Pope to be 'God on Earth', the Byzantine side held the opinion that it is a heretical action, because God is God, a human can't 'be' God aka have god-like power over others. Also, due to priests being 'sort of God' they were allowed to forgive many sins. This was very attractive to the believers, and certainly, over the thousand plus years, many a criminal was a regular church-goer in a belief that as long ast hey are going, and paying, they'll get into heaven. This is also why Catholics were so successful at conquering a lot of the world with their beliefs, it's certainly a lot more attractive than orthodoxy. This became most appaling in Middle Ages, when priests put a price list and people had to pay for every act of forgiving their sins, so much so that people were starving on the streets whilst he church got obscenely rich. Obviously, orthodox side thought this is heresy, and Protestants, well, protested by distancing themselves crom RCC.
On the global level, I see many conflicts today as representative of this thousand-year long ideological battle, the US/EU-Russia, Serbs-Croats, Catholic vs Orthodox Ukraininians, etc, you can trace the animosity back to that chasm. Like in the Middle East, Shia-Sunni, more or less.
As for your questions, I think all this means is that they are trying to negotiate the end to the thousand-year long animosity. This is all apart of the offensive by the Catholic church to repair their extremely damaged reputation. As for reunification, Orthodoxy can invite them to return to original Christian values, and to repent, as they have done since the beginning, which of course Catholc church will never accept. I don't think their conversation will even go in that direction, because the outcome is so clear. It's all a performance for the cameras, imo.