A few little things

Fantasy Land Update: A lender is trying to find a way to loan me $1.6 million to buy a gorgeous little apartment building in San Francisco. He says he can do it at 8% APR but I don't think I can handle the payments at that rate. I really need 5%. (3% makes a big difference on a loan that size.)

While surfing around I came to the site of an Orthodox Priest in North Carolina. Apparantly, he used to be Protestant. He is also my Kum's pastor. Anyway, he had a couple of cool things on his blog:

What a Faith!
If you could become Orthodox like a Romanian, Experience it like a Serbian, Be loyal to it like a Ukranian, Sacrifice for it like a Russian, Be proud of it like an Arab, And enjoy it like a Greek, What a great Faith you'd have, Especially if in addition you got to call yourself an American.

How old is your Church?
-If you are a Lutheran, your religion was founded by Martin Luther, an ex-monk of the Catholic Church, in the year 1517.
-If you belong to the Church of England, your religion was founded by King Henry VIII in the year 1534 because the Pope would not grant him a divorce with the right to remarry.
-If you are a Presbyterian, your religion was founded by John Knox in Scotland in the year 1560.
-If you are a Protestant Episcopalian, your religion is an offshoot of the Church of England, founded by Samuel Seabury in the American colonies in the 17th century.
-If you are a Congregationalist, your religion was originated with Robert Brown in Holland in 1582.
-If you are a Roman Catholic, your church shared the same rich apostolic and doctrinal heritage as the Orthodox Church for the first thousand years of its history; since during the first millennium they were one and the same Church. Lamentably, in 1054, the Pope of Rome broke away from the other four Apostolic Patriarchates (Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem) by tampering with the original Creed of the Church and considering himself to be the universal head of the Church. Thus, your church is 950 years old.
-If you are a Methodist, your religion was founded by John and Charles Wesley in England in 1774.
-If you are a Unitarian, Theophilus Lindley founded your church in London in 1774.
-If you are a Mormon (Latter Day Saints), Joseph Smith started your religion in Palmyra, New York, in 1829.
-If you are a Baptist, you owe the tenets of your religion to John Smyth, who launched it in Amsterdam in 1606.
-If you are of the Dutch Reformed Church, you recognize Michelis Jones as founder, because he originated your religion in New York in 1628.
-If you worship with the Salvation Army, your sect began with William Booth in London in 1865.
-If you are a Christian Scientist, you look to 1879 as the year your religion was born and to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy as its founder.
-If you belong to one of the religious organizations known as “Church of the Nazarene”, “Pentecostal Gospel”, “Holiness Church”, or “Jehovah’s Witness”, your religion is one of the hundreds of new sects founded by men within the past hundred years.
-If you are an ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN, your religion was founded in the year 33 by Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It has not changed since that time. Our Church is now 1,971 years old.
-- Anonymous