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They want a church that's "based and trad". A lot were going Catholic for a while, but they've figured out the pope is too woke for them. The Orthodox are as old, have the silly costumes and all the ritual and everything else appealing about Catholicism. But the central hierarchy is much less existent. There are many autocephalous Orthodox churches, so you can choose one you like.
I wonder if there's also a racism component. If you're in an American city with a variety of immigrant cultures, your local Orthodox churches are probably going to be more monochromatic than your local Catholic church.
i seriously doubt that they would like the "chroma" of the average monochromatic Antiochian congregation.
hell, many western reactionaries don't even view Russian émigrés as white
any longer.
Don't reactionaries like Russians for being "based and trad"? I thought it was the woke libs who hated Russians.
Some but I think that's mostly just something they say to try to troll the libs
Ooh, I hadn't thought of that, but that would make a lot of sense