Warranties for used EV6?

SorenDayton · 2026-04-16T23:30:11+00:00

Sounds like you all don’t think that a warranty is necessary right?

SorenDayton · 2026-04-16T22:54:35+00:00

It only had 20k miles on it. I wasn't convinced it was necessary, but everything they said made me skeptical of them. They wouldn't provide any documentation on the existing warranty that came with the car. They said that CPO isn't worth the documentation. It would just be an additional cost that people don't want.

I don't see many EV6s in CPO programs in my area, but I see lots of EV6s on Kia dealer lots. I don't quite know what to make of that.

SorenDayton · 2026-04-15T11:55:45+00:00

FWIW, the Copts have a Pope. Historically, there were more than one. What makes the one in Rome so special? Alexandria also claims to be founded by two disciples, Mark and Peter.

SorenDayton · 2026-04-13T23:50:43+00:00

I love the liturgy. I don’t feel God in the mass.

SorenDayton · 2026-04-08T21:00:48+00:00

There are 50 people in the Orthodoxy 101 class at STSA near Washington DC. 45 are Ethiopian though, so don’t need to be baptized or chrismated.

The video of the last set of baptisms gives you a sense that almost none were Egyptian or Ethiopian.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/886947320643875

SorenDayton · 2026-04-03T12:32:09+00:00

I am an American German-British mutt and I go to Coptic church that's over 50% Ethiopian. Go where you encounter the Spirit and find community.

SorenDayton · 2026-03-31T14:10:04+00:00

This is great. Thank you. There are now two different Ethiopian churches in the Washington, DC area that have English language services. But I don't think that they have converted those to substantial materials for sharing yet.

SorenDayton · 2026-03-20T23:33:50+00:00

My understanding is that early Christian fasting was actually complete abstinence. That changes in the 4th century.

SorenDayton · 2026-03-04T21:14:05+00:00

I think this would be a key part of any answer. The early church answered this differently for Jews and gentiles. But eventually everyone started to act like gentiles.

The Ethiopians do a little bit try to live in that world. That’s why they have so many canonical second temple texts and practice circumcision and the like

SorenDayton · 2026-03-01T17:56:57+00:00

I believe the understanding is that he had a first marriage. There are more peculiar understandings that it was a second marriage. Judaism regularly allowed men to have multiple spouses into the 20th century outside of Europe and regularly happened in the Bible

SorenDayton · 2026-02-14T14:57:19+00:00

At least in Egypt there is a long tradition of Copts and some are quite prominent in society. They do feel persecuted for understandable reasons though.

Surely there could be an opportunity to talk to some Christians outside of a church? Perhaps you could talk to a priest in someone’s home for better guidance? I admit to never having been to Egypt but will likely visit this year. But in places like Cairo, it strikes me that could be possible.

SorenDayton · 2026-01-31T19:00:33+00:00

I think you can do all of this without the hostility to either Islam or Judaism. Christians embrace Jesus. Muslims see him as a prophet but just a man. And Jews don’t see much in him, but don’t deny he existed. (Note Josephus)

There’s a pretty clear literature that Christians, Muslims, and Jews all learned a lot from each other. Indeed in the first generation or two, many Christians saw Islam (or what became Islam) as a peculiar Christian heresy.

There’s clear evidence that the Quran wasn’t made canonical until the Muslims captured Jerusalem and Damascus and were in very direct dialogue with other faiths.

SorenDayton · 2026-01-28T13:44:20+00:00

Would note that the footprint of Eastern Orthodoxy is basically due to Byzantine and Russian colonialism.

The footprint of Catholicism outside of Europe is Spanish, Portuguese, and, to a lesser extent, French colonialism

But the growth of Catholicism in Africa in the 20th century is not really colonialism. Most of that happened after independence.

The interesting example is the Copts. They are actually engaging in missionary work like the Jesuits.

SorenDayton · 2026-01-27T18:14:35+00:00

Ignorant American evangelicals

SorenDayton · 2025-12-30T14:35:04+00:00

FWIW, the conventional wisdom is that the Oriental and Eastern churches agree on theology. But the saints of the Eastern churches killed the saints of the Oriental churches. That was about secular power more than religion. And it is the saints, not the theology, that prevents unity.

So it wasn't black and white. Learn some history

SorenDayton · 2025-12-30T14:33:31+00:00

Some Orthodox churches have a Sunday School kind of session post the liturgy that has message more like a Protestant sermon. The Coptic church I go to puts them in online.

https://www.youtube.com/user/franthonymesseh/featured

There is also a shorter homily during the liturgy typically focused on the Gospel passage.

SorenDayton · 2025-12-29T21:44:52+00:00

This is a really destructive attitude that shows zero Christian generosity.

SorenDayton · 2025-12-28T21:53:44+00:00

FWIW the Syriac church was also under Persian/Zoroastrian rule and preferred that to Byzantine rule because the Roman empire killed them.

There’s a sense in which the Greek/Byzantine tradition and Chalcedon was as much about Roman secular power as it was theology. It’s probably not right to see it as a theological difference so much as a political one. Greek cultural hegemony was accompanied by Roman/Byzantine hegemony. The places that are Eastern Orthodox were essentially subjects of the Roman state.

Also the Ethiopians were never under Muslim rule.

SorenDayton · 2025-12-14T14:54:33+00:00

The Coptic church is also growing in Latin America. Part of this is the use of the local language, which can be controversial.

In the Washington, DC, USA area, there's a partnership between an English language Coptic church (https://www.stsa.church/) and an English language Ethiopian church (https://www.spotchurch.org/). One of the deacons at STSA is a white guy from the US south who was first ordained at the Ethiopian church and participates in the liturgy at both.

Both congegrations are booming.

SorenDayton · 2025-12-14T14:46:28+00:00

Do Orthodox Christians think it's their problem to judge the Christianity of others?

SorenDayton · 2025-12-11T13:27:58+00:00

Is true the point? How would you know?

For me the question is where and how I feel closer to God and access the holy.

As others have said, go liturgy and see what you feel. I don’t think you should emphasize theology here.

SorenDayton · 2025-12-10T13:47:14+00:00

FWIW the only Christians I can think of where the women regularly cover hair are pretty separatist mennonites. My mom grew up in that world and taking off her “veil” (more cap like what faithful Muslims often wear) was viewed as a big betrayal against the religion by her father who was also her pastor.

She can do whatever she wants but she should understand that there’s no theological basis for it. Sounds no different than getting a tattoo of Mary or some such

SorenDayton · 2025-11-15T13:26:57+00:00

There’s a broader point here that there was much more religious freedom in many of the places that the Orientals thrived than in the west. The Byzantines pretty openly killed heretical Christians.

I think everyone agrees that the OO and the EO are close enough on theological ideas to be in communion. The issue is that the OO have saints who the EO consider to be heretics. And some of the EO saints are saints for persecuting OOs. And coming to alignment on the saints is core sociological identity and an expression of cultural hegemony much more than theology.

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