"This is the number one problem within Orthodoxy today -- its excessive emphasis on being different for the sake of being different."
Speaking as an Orthodox, I have to say that I don't recognize the Church you speak of here. In my experience, there is NOTHING in Orthodoxy that is "different for the sake of being different." I can't claim to have acquired a totally Orthodox phronema, but I can tell you that there is a reason for just about everything you can see in Orthodoxy. One may not agree with those reasons, but they don't reveal a Church that is "different for the sake of being different."
Different for the sake of being different
"This is the number one problem within Orthodoxy today -- its excessive emphasis on being different for the sake of being different."
Speaking as an Orthodox, I have to say that I don't recognize the Church you speak of here. In my experience, there is NOTHING in Orthodoxy that is "different for the sake of being different." I can't claim to have acquired a totally Orthodox phronema, but I can tell you that there is a reason for just about everything you can see in Orthodoxy. One may not agree with those reasons, but they don't reveal a Church that is "different for the sake of being different."