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Originally Posted by Senusret I
In contrast, when we had our one hundred clergyman.... celebration at our Centennial, we had one guy who was a Santero, at least one Quaker, Catholics, Protestants, Muslim, and maybe a Jew.
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Senusret I-
This highlights the fact that, beyond the superficial BGLO stereotypes (which do have a grain of truth in them), in my opinion, there is a sense that there are somewhat distinct fraternal cultures of each organization, just as there are corporate cultures of business entities which one can only experience "on the ground."
In this regards, it's been my contention that as an organization Omega Psi Phi has a "conservative" (i.e., traditional) fraternal culture, even to the point of being Byzantine in some aspects. This reality was related to me 30 years ago when I was pledging in an off-the-record comment made by an Omega Brother at a party thrown by my line as a part of the Lampados Club.
And as an outsider, I've considered other BGLOs more "progressive" as evidenced by what you've stated about the representation of the ministers at the ecumenical service at the A Phi A Centennial. You wouldn't have the same breadth of representation at an Omega Psi Phi Ecumenical Service, I'd venture to say.
-Wolfman