When You Like Presbyterian Mixture But You’re Not Reformed

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haparnold

Lifer
Aug 9, 2018
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I don't recognize the mosque though.
It's complicated. This is a joke about the Eastern Orthodox Church (which is different from Presbyterians, who follow a reformed theology), but whoever made this image used a poor choice of church. The Hagia Sophia was the seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople until the conquering of the city by Ottomans in 1453. The Ottomans renamed the city to Istanbul and turned the cathedral into a Mosque.
 

telescopes

Pipe Dreamer and Star Gazer
localization can be kind of awesome and sometimes imply something worse then was being avoided. Like now this tin looks like it came from some alternative dimension where the Presbyterians have taken over and are stealing other peoples holy buildings.
IN this particular case, it would be "taking back" a holy building.
 

mingc

Lifer
Jun 20, 2019
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The three main branches of Christianity are Reformed (after the Reformation), Catholic, and Orthodox. Presbyterians are a type of Reformed, this is Presbyterian for Orthodox as it is in Greek and has an Orthodox cathedral on it instead of the Reformed church on the original.

But for the reformation, formal wear for guys would be colorful dresses. That's my theory.
 
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