Opinion 140: on the glories of the Eastern Church

At some point in his tumultuous time in Constantinople, St. Gregory Nazianzus was trying to work as a mediator between two factions of bishops, one with an eye to the West, the other to the East. Those in the East brought up as an argument for Eastern supremacy the fact that Christ had been sent to the Eastern part of the world to be incarnate. Gregory replied with nefarious wit that perhaps he had been sent to the East because he knew it to be wicked enough that there was a good chance he'd find someone there willing to crucify him.