Because the Orthodox Church was founded in ancient times. The Catholic Church was founded in the Middle Ages. Protestant stuff was founded in the Reformation.

>>78003123
The cross looks cooler
There's also no purgatory - only heaven and hell.

>>78003123
no cuck pope
orthodoxy is autocephalous, meaning every country's patriarch is independent

>>78003123
>Protestant

You can basically pick anything and it would be better than that Germanic cuck heretical bullshit.

Greek/Russian Orthodox is fine as an alternative. Probably most based Christianity.

>>78006511
He'd probably be Antiochian Orthodox, they are the major evangelists, most their members in the West are converts, and their liturgy is in English.

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>>78003123

>>78006168

protestants don't believe in purgatory

>>78003123
Because Protestantism is a heresy created a few hundred years ago. They're like the lefties of the church

>>78006906
lefties of *Christianity

>>78005549
They are the same age. They were once one and in 1054 they split into the Eastern Church (Orthodox) and the Western Church (Catholic)

The Roman Catholic Church is the original and consistent rite of the Christian faith.

>>78007890
Orthodox Western Rite is much more traditional than RCC Western Rite

Here is an Orthodox Western Rite liturgy, it dates to before the schism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9zP59_98s8

>>78008006
Here is a Catholic hymn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0iOBOIwQ2o

Here is an Orthodox hymn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noetoc2W4Pc

Which sounds more original and consistent to you?

>>78007890
>The Roman Catholic Church is the original and consistent rite of the Christian faith.
>indulgences

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>>78008133
This if French Orthodox iconography

Tell me, does this, or Catholic art, look more consistent and original?

>>78008133
You are pathetic, nitpicking. You know quite well that would never be played in a Catholic Mass.

I refuse to continue this discussion, maybe you should read up on your history instead spouting lies

>>78009337
>You know quite well that would never be played in a Catholic Mass.
It was written for Mass. It's not used in regular Mass, but it is sometimes used

You clearly have no idea how Protestant Catholic Mass can be. Here are some examples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxcOv4zPoVo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHZtbnaXuGk