I wonder if the EP is going to have to get permission from the Turkish government as to how it will vote each time a vote is taken in the Great and Holy Council that may have an impact on its Orthodox “Turks”? Perhaps the Turks will also remake the salutations of all those about to be Turkish citizens from Your Eminence to Your Janissariness. I suppose only time will tell. In the mean time, I for one shall reflect on the words of Lactantius who said in The Divine Institutes:
“Who that is possessed of any sense would not laugh at these mockeries, when he sees that men, as though bereft of intelligence, do those things seriously, which if any one should do in sport, he would appear too full of sport and folly?”
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