So I'm back after the Orthodox service for the Thursday evening before Pascha. I always forget just how awful the hymnography gets. It's basically all - and pardon me for how ugly it sounds even cleaned up - "Oh, the Jewish community really screwed the pooch here!" And it's like... is that really the message you get here? Of course, they'll never change it because reasons. It's an embarrassment.

So it's like, if you read the Gospels and understand the story, get what I say in part 2. And then our church writes a bunch of hymnography that misses the point and is offensively evil. And then they say, oh, no, look deeper and you'll get back to that original point. But we can't change the hymnography because reasons.

Which goes back into the points of #2. We are living out what we are being warned against. The evil is calling from inside the house. So that's a little window into what it's like being a modern Greek Orthodox - and that's just the trivial "no, don't be anti-Semites" layer. I'm still here because I think there's something in the center of that onion.