You can take the thug out of the KGB, but you can’t take the KGB out of the thug.
maybe he was simply mis-translated and was just equating the Pope to Communism.
Well, with the current Pope, he has a point.
Communism is a heresy of Christianity.
Sadly, there ARE some Christian theologians who have written or taught what amount to communist ideology...
(such as...those that thought that private property should be burdened by a ‘social welfare’ requirement... whereby the Church hierarchy would have the power to require you to give your property to the church or other “more needy” people OUTRIGHT ...or....that the church hierarchy should be permitted to require you to let other people use your property (whether your home or land or money or other stuff).
While NOT Biblical, there have been such ‘teachings’ by some church fathers, popes, etc.
so Putin is not entirely off his gourd ... alas!
(Plus, there are some folks who believe that communism was largely a scheme hatched by SOME within the RC Church to suppress Orthodoxy...I am not advancing that POV, just noting it since it seems possibly related here?). No flames please! thank you thank you
heaven may be like communism, because their is no human element there, only higher consciousness... but on earth, human nature goes against everything communistic.
Russia is not even socialist. It is the most corrupt form of oligarchic capitalism.
Biggest gap between rich and poor in the WORLD.
Thanks to Putin.
For being a really smart guy, this is really stupid!
Well, he right in the sense Communism basically stole everything from Christianity. Its utopian vision is the heaven from Christianity and it replaces God with a man they equate to the savior.
Stalin, Mao, Kim, Castro, were all worshipped as messianic figures by state established media. And the promise was always that if the people follow the “great leader” he will lead them to a paradise filled with riches and there is no greed or war.
It’s essentially Christianity without Christ.
Above all other reality there exists one supreme Being: God, the omnipotent Creator of all things, the all-wise and just Judge of all men. This supreme reality, God, is the absolute condemnation of the impudent falsehoods of Communism.
“On Atheistic Communism”
Pope Pius XI - 1937
There are some “Christians” that think the same.
When it comes to the Pope it is the same.
Tell that to the purged, the dead thru starvation and imprisonment in gulags.. Prick.
And ok, hes totally wrong.
I don’t care what the F Francis says, and if Pope Bill Donohue has taken up his case, I don’t care what Pope Bill Donohue says either. Shame. I used to like him when South Park was trashing him.
That’s classic Putin’s pre-election lip service to the left designed to poach communist voters. Works great for him for 10+ years. You won’t hear any of it after late March.
What’s the source for the Putin quote? There are no links back to it and it’s not popping up from google.