Crimea

I knew that we would do little about the Crimean mess.  Why?  Well, the new "nation" is global business.  This is what connects us.  National boundaries do not  connect diverse groups of people.  These boundaries are a way to govern, tax and organize defuse groups of people who do not share much in common with one another.  Do the people who live in what is called "Nigeria" believe themselves to be nigerians?  No! The rich don't want war over Crimea, or penalties because it will cost them in their business deals with Russia.  The poor don't want war because they will be the ones who fight it.  The "Church" is suffering from the same illusion problem that nations suffer.  There is no one latin rite church.  Rome said there was, but saying it does not make it so.  The Orthodox think in terms of nation, but it is really about one particular ethnic group in a geographic area with boundaries that is called "nation."  To have one kind of way of doing things, such as liturgy, for so many diverse groups does not make the groups less diverse.   It is easier to leave a church if you never felt the connection.