He may be phony as any political type, but under Putin in Russia you can :
1. Pray in school
2. Reinstall the religious images where they were removed.
3. Churches are being built by the boat load
4. etc.
While non orthodox branches of the faith are having some headwinds, Christianity is resurging in a land that in my lifetime was still repressing all forms.
Putin could easily do all this without threatening anyone else.
Part of this is a deliberate revival of Russian nationalism. An integral part of Russian nationalism is the Russian religion and its church. In itself thats not a bad thing, neither the nationalism nor the religious part of it.
The problem is that its being put to cynical and unworthy uses.
~He may be phony as any political type, but under Putin in Russia you can :
1. Pray in school
2. Reinstall the religious images where they were removed.
3. Churches are being built by the boat load
4. etc.
While non orthodox branches of the faith are having some headwinds, Christianity is resurging in a land that in my lifetime was still repressing all forms~
It seems to me that you got it right.
In Sweden it is illegal for kids in kindergarden to use terms like ‘he’ or ‘she’ and they are indoctrinating them to accept buggery via fairy tales about animal characters engaging in homosexual acts. They teach kids to report if their parents said something non-political correct at home.
I think this guy was about to say it is a Christianity in general which is a threat to ‘western civilization’ like that but decided it is too radical for now. Yet, they all love and embrace islam, despite the fact that muslims make some 10% population and at the same responsible for 90% rapes and way other half of the rest of violent crimes.
Yet, if a muslim Chechen caught commiting a crime, he is reported as Russian ordthodox mafia there.