As the author notes, the genesis of the problem was the GOA's mindset of a diaspora Church vs. a missionary Church. (The American hierarchy's attempt to actually be a missionary Church was, of course, squashed). Americans will not, and should not, learn Attic Greek in order to worship God. So Greeks inevitably out-marry and spouses and children decline to attend a Greek social club. So the GOA attempts to remedy the problem, and goes at it from precisely the wrong end due to their ethnic narcissism.
As the author notes, the genesis of the problem was the GOA's mindset of a diaspora Church vs. a missionary Church. (The American hierarchy's attempt to actually be a missionary Church was, of course, squashed). Americans will not, and should not, learn Attic Greek in order to worship God. So Greeks inevitably out-marry and spouses and children decline to attend a Greek social club. So the GOA attempts to remedy the problem, and goes at it from precisely the wrong end due to their ethnic narcissism.
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