Date:         Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:23:29 -0400 Reply-To:     Orthodox Christianity <[email protected]> Sender:       Orthodox Christianity <[email protected]> From:         "Udut, Kenneth" <> Subject:      Re: In Communion    Regarding: Pacifism + Orthodoxy  My thoughts:  Adjectives and Nouns.  Evaluations and things.  Two parts of speech.   An Orthodox Pacifist?  A Pacifist Orthodox?   Adj. + Noun.  The Adj. is easily replaceable - Ugly is easily replaced with Beauty, or with Green, or with Red, or Light, or Heavy, or Peaceful or Hateful or whatever.  But the Noun - the noun is where the "Rubber meets the Road".   What is primary and fixed and what is secondary and changeable?  Tricky questions to ask one's self, but necessary.   How do you identify yourself?   And a question, with an answer that I do not know: When someone says, "I am an Orthodox Christian, who happens to be on the Old Calendar" - what is taking the precedence?  When someone says, "I am a man, who happens to be whit
e" - what is taking the precedence?  For where does the conversation turn after a statement like that?   -Kenneth, who wants to know answers to these things!

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