The internet is largely to blame. Anyone brave enough (or dumb, like me) to venture into the Orthodox X/Twitter-verse has probably seen certain Orthodox guys posting “Go to church” replies with videos of elaborate and very imperial looking cathedrals—as though that’s where they are going to church. But for most Orthodox Christians in America, that whole idea of what an Orthodox Church is “supposed to look like” is not the reality. That idea of “what an Orthodox Church is supposed to look like” only exists in our imaginations, and is an image malformed by the information age. It’s religious theory, not faith.