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By: Richard Barrett
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Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:04:09 +0000https://www.aoiusa.org/2008/03/07/the-real-byzantium/#comment-21G. K. Chesterton once commented (in The Everlasting Man, I believe) that Christianity, arising in the Mediterranean as it did, had to be Greek, Roman, African, and Middle Eastern all at once. From the point of view of the Western world, all but the Roman identity have fallen away from relevance, and I think probably there are those who would say that wouldn’t have happened if the East hadn’t deserved it. Constantinople, and the Christian East in general, are quaint curiosities for the West, relics of something which no longer exists and died out for a reason. Attempts to “rehabilitate” it, and/or to put Russia firmly within that tradition, are therefore going to be seen as threatening for all kinds of reasons.