I have so much Green Patriarch fatigue these days that when I read the Brookings talk I had little or no reaction any more. The rebranding of the Ecumenical Patriarch into the Green Patriarch has established a completely new model for how the world sees the Church. The end result of all of this is not going to be very positive. +Bartholomew has been Patriarch for close to two decades yet every visit, every speech is the same script, the same questions, the same cliches repeated over and over again.
I am utterly exhausted of being told the EP is not political and then seeing him parade around in venues that are clearly partisan. I am also utterly tired of hearing how human beings are the source all that is wrong in the world.
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