{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Realizing I don't know as much as I'd like about Orthodox Christianity as a geopolitical force or shaped by them.\nLike,...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/652555824646979584/", "html": "<p>Realizing I don&rsquo;t know as much as I&rsquo;d like about Orthodox Christianity as a geopolitical force or shaped by them.</p><p>Like, Orthodoxy has lost territory to Islam in a way that in Catholicism only Spain was and that story concludes with a redemption that reworks it as a colonial force. How do they make sense of that?</p><p>Do they play similar roles in literacy and governance as the Western Church did? As the other Eastern religions they rubbed up against?</p>"}