"The Christian Church was united for the first 1,000 years of its history, but the Pope's 1054 declaration that he commanded all Christian churches, broke that unity." With these words, James Perloff opened his talk with the Two Mikes. The major result of the Pope's decision was that the Christian Church in eastern Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Turkey went its own way and practiced a Christianity much more in accord with scripture and the words of God and Jesus. To this day, the Eastern Orthodox Church continues to follow this tradition of a "rigorous obedience to Christ" and a...