I am in no way Protestant or Catholic
Arius believed God was one being a unity
The nicean council was the first Inquisition
And Arius was poisoned for his teaching and his followers killed by the followers of the polythiestic trinitarians of rome who’s founder saint Peter of Rome was actually Simeon magus not the si.on bar Jonah found buried in jersulam in 1948 by two Jesuit scholars.
While orthodoxy and Catholic populations we’re real Christian’s. The heirachal nature of the churches is anathema to the teachings of Christ Jesus
For he and he alone has always been the head of the church all others Antichrist be they Roman or the Patriarch of Constantinople he is not a father and they are not representitives of Jesus Majesty on Earth
The septer being what it is, is out of reach of every human.hand
PS to make ad hom attacks on intellgence based on spelling errors is a bit sketchy and to denigrate me as a non English speaker is a bit base and over the top. What that shows is the weakness of your intellectual position in the discussions . Others may find your words compelling as they share that bubble of dogma but to the warp and woof of the public that retorical tactic is repugnant on a unconcious level.
Do well in this life,live long and prosperously for it is the glory that God himself has assigned you , as he has me. I give thanks that you worship Christ which is the only gospel of truth and the only path of salvation. For it is written no man ( or woman) can Glorify and magnify Jesus of Nazereth except it be by the ministry of the holy spirit

http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/catholicchurch/refuting-eastern-orthodox/#.WJpRgvmLThk

The head of the Orthodox Church is Christ. The Patriarch of Constantinople is merely ‘first among equals’. The Orthodox Church is the church of the Seven Ecumenical Councils.
The Latin/ Roman church is a medieval invention. The Bishop of Rome excommunicated the other four (original–read the NT, if you can’t recall)Patriarchates, including Jerusalem, and pronounced himself “Supreme Pontiff”. Even worse, the Latins changed the Nicean Creed which had been adopted in 325 by all Christians. The various Popes/kings/warlords of the Vatican (who have their own currency and bank, and issue passports)–are nothing but a corrupt, worldly, organization rather than an actual church of Christ–and went on to commit unbelievable atrocities as they continue to deteriorate in their self-created mess.
You can quote Tertullian the Carthaginian all you want, but he left the true church in 207.
He fought the gnostics but founded his own church in the end. The True Church was founded by Christ on Pentecost–it did not need to be re-invented by a north African schismatic in the West. Read this: https://orthodoxwiki.org/Tertullian
Many saints that the ignorant revere as “Catholic” are not, but are Orthodox saints, such as Saint Patrick, for one example, as are all western saints before 1054. That’s what built “western civilization”, not the false religion which impersonated it afterwards.
You made many comments about Orthodoxy that have no basis in reality. Did you just make them up? Wouldn’t you rather know the truth? Surely, you can use Google.
The Orthodox Church is has never been a “national church” ever. You are uninformed. St. John Chrysostom, who wrote the Divine Liturgy (which the Latins keep changing and truncating along with their erroneous theology, so the “mass” is now about fifteen minutes long) declared that the Divine Liturgy is to be celebrated in whatever language the people speak. Christianity is not occult–with babbling that no one understands. Tell me, where in the modern world did anyone speak Latin? Oh, now it’s in English, French etc. after the pews emptied out about 50 years ago, so they had to make modifications in Vatican II. The Divine Liturgy is celebrated in more different languages than any other nominally Christian Churches, and it has been in the language of the people, which is different in different locations around the globe, but it is the same liturgy everywhere, always. Christ spoke Aramaic, the Holy gospels were written in Koine Greek, not Latin.
A thousand years ago, the Latin/Roman church with a Pope, rather than Christ, at it’s head simply did not exist at all. There is only one church that exists from 33 AD to the present day, unless you imagine that Christ came again and gave command for the formation of a new church with new theology and an army mercenaries promised “paradise” by a warlord and crypto-Jew “Templar” bankers.
In every country, from Mexico to Uganda to the Philippines, Roman Catholics are coming home to Orthodoxy, en masse. This is the age of information and the internet. People can seek the truth for themselves and they do not believe “fairy-tales” any more than they believe the earth is resting on the back of a giant turtle. The corrupt, empty, falsehoods that were perpetuated in centuries past by the Latins, simply have no power anymore, except to those for whom membership in an organization or comfortable social convention is more important that seeking Christ and following his commands.
Of course the Orthodox Church is evangelical, but unlike the Latins, they do not torture and kill or threaten to do that in order to “convert” people.
Remember the Gospel according to John, who said that we will be known to be Christians by our love–not by our wealth, our TV stations, and media presence, or coercion of any kind. Check out Corinthians 13 for a definition of love in case it got lost with all the Roman folderol making up myths about the most Holy Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary. You might want to ask yourself why new dogmas are added in the nineteenth century, creating a sort of cultic worship of someone other than God. Orthodox Christians revere, love, and rely on the help of Christ’s Mother, but we only worship God, not a human. It seems Catholics are very confused by this endless piling on of more fakery, now that they can’t get away with the money scheme of “indulgences”.
The Latins biggest heresy is co-opting the judgement of Christ. There are too many examples to mention, but here is a very simple one: once, Catholics were told that if they ate meat on Friday, it was a “mortal sin” meaning they would go straight to hell if they died unconfessed. After Vatican II (because they are always changing beliefs because it is all man made), suddenly it was okay to eat meat on Friday. Imagine all those poor fools in hell who died before the early 60’s. It’s laughable. Even after thousands of priest got away with sexually abusing children (remember what Christ said about that?) and were protected by the Vatican (Pope Benedict, when he was a cardinal, was the author of the document which forbids reporting Catholic clergy for child abuse on pain of excommunication), some delusional folks still thought it was a good idea to pour money into a Rothschild Central Bank (the Vatican) for the defense of pedophiles –so far about half a billion has gone into that effort. Are you proud of that?
In short, the Latin church says they have the power of judgement, not Christ. This alone reveals it it to be false.
The Orthodox Church the original church in unbroken continuity as you can see from this simple to understand diagram: http://www.stnicholascoatesville.org/images/orthodox_timeline.png
Not only Latins, but Muslims, Protestants, and even Jews are converting. Those with eyes to see recognize that we are in critical times.
Please read about this Bishop–why he left the Latin church–he goes into some detail:
http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2009/08/why-i-abandoned-papism-by-bishop-paul.html
Here is a first hand account from a Romanian Roman Catholic: http://journeytoorthodoxy.com/2016/07/converting-to-orthodoxy-in-spain/
There are countless examples and so much information. Here’s a starting place: http://orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/inq_western.aspx
The Orthodox Church requires no defense whatsoever. Nothing I or anyone else writes or says can “defend” Orthodoxy, because it is the church of which it is said “the gates of hell will not prevail against it”. It is the faith of the Apostles, the faith of the Holy Fathers–the faith which holds fast the inhabited world (to paraphrase from the synodion).
The only reason I made this reply is on the chance that you are sincere in your comment and I want to encourage you to seek the Truth in the person of Jesus Christ. Do your own research and you will understand. You can disregard what I wrote, but please seek the answers for yourself–if not online but with an Orthodox priest in person. I am a lay person, not monastic, nor clergy. Come home to Christ, who loves you.
You see, Lina, the Orthodox Christian church is not political. It is not an organization. It is not religious philosophy or scholasticism. It is not “national” at all. It is a theandric organism and as such, it is the Body of Christ which is free from “the traditions of men”.

There is no point in giving a troll any fuel, so my comment will be addressed to other readers of this blog.
I am certain that anyone with a triple digit IQ can see there is nothing of “Mary Louise” accuses me of in my original post. Instead of retracted her absurd comment, she merely repeats her ad hominem baseless personal attack, which, as anyone can see has no place in intelligent discussion among adults. The best I could say about her is that she is a pathetic bully and needs to resort to name calling because she really has nothing intelligent to offer this discussion. If she is not a hasbarat or a paid troll, it is more likely she is one of those ignorant, delusional, Latin Catholics, who knows nothing about real Christianity or even history.
The only true church is the Orthodox Christian Church–which is a God-human organism, not an organization, club, or anything of a political nature like the Latin Catholic Church with it’s international child trafficking network, and endless heresies. It is the Church Militant (on earth, but not of the earth) together with the Church Triumphant (in heaven). The True Church, which is of God is in no way a victim–quite the contrary.
While the Orthodox Christian Church may be called the church of martyrs (since early Christian times through the 20th century and beyond), it is in no way victimized, but glorified by those whose love of Christ has allowed them to overcome evil.

Laskarina: There is nothing wrong with my English. If you fail to comprehend what I say perhaps that is due to a weakness of intellect on your part, or else English is not your first language. I was merely responding to what I read: a long diatribe of supposed Orthodox victimhood, throughout history, by various other groups for no other reason than that the Orthodox were such innocent little lambs. Of which other group is that behaviour redolent. The Jews maybe? You do come across as self-righteous and not at all a good advertisement for Eastern Orthodoxy. Just sayin’.

Mary Louise: perhaps English is not your first language, or you are barely literate, but an ‘ad hominem’ personal attack is truly pathetic. Apparently you fail, in your extreme ignorance, to understand anything of what I wrote, and thus are unable to make an intelligent reply. You have no facts to contradict what I wrote (because there are none), so you had to throw a tantrum, or maybe it’s just hasbara.

Jeremy Constantine has never been canonized by the Catholic Church.
I don’t follow Vatican II for the reasons you stated: ie, it is not Catholic.

Constantine is an Orthodox Saint, Jeremy. Better brush up your history, as should your hero Michael Hoffman.