text: - There are Eastern Catholics and they accept the Immaculate Conception.
  
  That was my mistake. Most people here know I'm Orthodox. That is what I meant when I said Eastern.
  
  - [T]he Orthodox Church as a whole has never considered the Immaculate Conception.
  
  Yes, it has because you can find writings about that address the question of our non-belief. 
  
  - It is not the Catholic belief that Mary was “a notch higher than humanity itself”. 
  
  Weaseling. That is the logical extension of the immaculate conception--conceived without original sin. 
  
  - There is actually a wide variety of opinion in Orthodoxy about these matters, both currently and historically. 
  
  - I have never met an Orthodox person who ever accepted the immaculate conception or who took it seriously. 
  
  I take it you’re Russian Orthodox?
  
  Nope.