Posted on 12/24/2022 7:20:01 AM PST by USA-FRANCE
Still mad from the last rhetorical beat-down Laz? It is typical of you that your first comment to me in two weeks references a crack whore and a sex act you sad, old pervert.
Putin recently inaugurated the biggest Mosque in all Europe. A massive mosque in the middle of Moscow!
The built “churches” are KGB hubs. They operate as Government outlets to send pro government messages to the people. Only pro Kremlin churches are allowed and they are used as efficient propaganda machines.
All true opposition parties are forbidden in Russia.
All media, journalists, TV and so one must be pro Kremlin or they will be banned or jailed.
Putin is against family values. Look how He helps Islamic Iran to demolish Iranian women trying to free themselves from Islamic tyranny.
Wake up my friend. It’s bad in the USA, but its worse in Russia - way worse.
Sadly, that is the most honest evaluation of the East - West opposition dynamic of the modern era.
...the cancer that was started with the creation of the Federal Reserve, that eventually "trickled down" to finance the destruction of the Republic.
The Idiots Guide To Making A Free Enterprise System Flourish For ALL
A. Don't let parasites in
B. Don't let parasites do what parasites do...devour the host.
Agreed.
Reagan used soft power but Russia knew he wasn’t bluffing when he was tough talking. He used hard power when necessary.
Reagan was listened to as a gentleman because people new he wasn’t bluffing and had a backbone made of iron.
Yeah, a 'protester' under the old USSR could get two years in jail for even being in the vicinity of a protest.
And protest against the State required Show Trians... While the slugs who supported 'the party' could steal billions from Russian citizens without a slapped wrist.
Kind of like January 6th (no burned buildings, no graffiti, and one bottle of booze taken) - - and Sam Bankman stealing billions from innocent citizens.)...the 'laws' are different for 'the chosen' in hellholes than for 'the victims of State hate. It's one of the definitions of 'hellhole' - difference laws and punishment based on political beliefs.
The United States is in the process of becoming evil . Reagan would be able to see it. Just like most of the people around the world are starting to see what's happening here..
How long until Universities like Stanford require conservative students to wear 5 inch yellow stars on their outer clothing? If conservatives are even allowed to be students in the future. Totalitarian hellholes have much in common with each other - Commies and Fascists choose different 'victims' but it's NOT the choice of victim that defines a hellhole - its the structure and 'rules' that are the same.
Yeah, a 'protester' under the old USSR could get two years in jail for even being in the vicinity of a protest.
And protest against the State required Show Trials... While slugs who supported 'the party' could steal billions from Russian citizens without a slapped wrist.
Kind of like January 6th (no burned buildings, no graffiti, and one bottle of booze taken) - - and Sam Bankman stealing billions from innocent citizens.)... 'laws' are different for 'the chosen' like BLM rioters, Antifa and Bankman... In hellholes 'the victims of State hate pay a high price. Favorites don't.. It's one of the definitions of 'hellhole' - difference laws and punishment based on political beliefs.
The United States is in the process of becoming evil . Reagan would be able to see it. Just like most of the people around the world are starting to see what's happening here..
How long until Universities like Stanford require conservative students to wear 5 inch yellow stars on their outer clothing? If conservatives are even allowed to be students in the future. Totalitarian hellholes have much in common with each other - Commies and Fascists choose different 'victims' but it's NOT the choice of victim that defines a hellhole - its the structure and 'rules' that are the same.
There is more persecution of Christians here in America than there is in Russia. Our establishment thinks that we are “clinging to our bibles and guns.”
2020:
Relentless Religious Persecution in Russia
Last June, a Russian court sentenced Jehovah’s Witness, Andrew Stupnikov, to six years in prison. He previously spent nearly eight months in detention and four months under house arrest. The same day of Stupnikov’s sentencing, another Russian court sentenced four other Jehovah’s Witnesses to 3-5 years in prison. These cases have been prosecuted under counter-terrorism laws.
What could the Jehovah’s Witnesses, a tiny religious community in Russia, have done to earn such ire from Moscow? Why is it that the Russian government has formally labeled each of these individuals as “extremists” and therefore a threat to the state? Russia has designated the Jehovah’s Witnesses as an extremist cult and therefore a menace to Russian families and the Russian state. This is a bad omen for all religious minorities in Russia.
The Russian Constitution holds that religious convictions may be held freely and must be treated equally by the state. However, the court’s ruling against Stupnikov asserted that, although the Constitution guarantees the freedom of religious belief, this fundamental right is inherently limited by other rights, namely the “establishment of civil peace and accord” found in the preamble of the Constitution itself. Apparently, the very presence of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia threatens “civil peace and accord.” As a result, Jehovah’s Witnesses within the country have been imprisoned and, in some cases, brutally beaten.
Newsweek reported earlier this year that a Russian court convicted Valentina Baranovskaya (69) and her son Roman Baranovskaya (46) for their involvement with Jehovah’s Witnesses, sentencing them to two and six years in prison, respectively. Their homes were subsequently raided, and items such as personal records, Bibles, and electronic devices were confiscated. This is just 1 of more than 1,000 homes that have been raided since a major 2017 Supreme Court ruling against Jehovah’s Witnesses. Fifty-two Jehovah’s Witnesses are currently serving time in prison for their religious beliefs and practices.
The bullying of a tiny minority sends a loud message to other religious minorities, most notably evangelical Christians, Roman Catholics, and others. Fines, confiscation, and even imprisonment are possible penalties for evangelism or hosting a foreign religious speaker. Recognizing the severity of the situation, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has called on the U.S. government to list Russia as a “country of particular concern” (CPC), a designation that can result in formal sanctions and other punitive actions.
The ever-increasing religious persecution by the Russian government has caught the attention of governments worldwide. In February 2021, the U.S. Department of State released a statement via their spokesperson, Ned Price, urging Russia to lift the ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses and to respect the right of free exercise of religion. Since the release of this statement, other religious groups have spoken out about the intensifying persecution in Russia. One example is Russia’s Old Believers, an Orthodox Christian group that separated from the mainline Russian Orthodox Church in 1666. The Old Believers have called on the Russian Government change course, emphasizing that “Freedom of religion is one of the inalienable rights of the person, which humanity has conquered over the course of many years.” Furthermore, the Old Believers called attention to the inevitable civil unrest to which religious repression so often gives rise, as evidenced through their own experience with the czarist and Bolshevik regimes. Civil aggression, they argued, could be avoided “if the authorities adhere to the principle of freedom of conscience and religious confession.”
The persecution the Old Believers referenced occurred during the Czarist Russian regime at the beginning of the twentieth century when the government restricted all expressions of Christianity apart from Russian Orthodoxy, the church of the state. Among the religious groups afflicted were Protestants, Roman Catholics, and Old Believers. The Russian government justified its extensive measures of religious intolerance against Christians outside of Russian Orthodoxy and people of other faiths through an ideological amalgam of xenophobia, nationalism, and Orthodox triumphalism. The respective ruler at the time, Nicholas II, the last Russian czar, lived in great fear that non-Orthodox expressions of faith would undermine the viability of the Russian nation. As a result of rampant government corruption, costly economic regression, and the de-establishment of the Duma, the Russian Parliament, moderates, and Russian radicals joined forces with the intention of overthrowing the Russian czar, a movement known today as the February Revolution (1917).
Nicholas II abdicated the throne four days later leading to the establishment of a provisional government through the Duma advocating for liberal programs such as freedom of speech and equality before the law. Shortly thereafter, leftist revolutionaries led by Vladimir Lenin launched the Bolshevik Revolution, resulting in the world’s first Communist state. A new quasi-religious orthodoxy took hold, that of radical, atheistic Communism. It demanded even more ideological adherence than its predecessor through imprisoning, torturing, and executing those who refused Communist orthodoxy.
In short, Russian history is has been plagued with religious intolerance, which has taken many forms: anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim prejudice, and anti-Catholic and anti-Protestant sentiments. These forms of intolerance have typically been justified under an ideology of national unity, whether rooted in Russian Orthodoxy or Soviet Communism.
The heavy-handed actions of Moscow today, which uses counter-terrorism laws against both religion-inspired terrorists and pacifistic Jehovah’s Witnesses, are violations of the Russian Constitution’s religious freedom guarantees as well as key provisions of international law found in the aspirational Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the legally binding International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights.
Is there hope for change in Russia? If Russian citizens identify with their neighbors as fellow citizens, regardless of faith background, then there is hope for the kind of pluralism and tolerance that can foster genuine religious freedom. Returning to the wisdom of the Old Believers: Russians can conquer old forms of intolerance by recognizing the inalienable rights of all people.
Where did he say that, MercyFlush?
We all despised the Soviet Union. Reagan would be disgusted at leftists like you.
We are that evil empire today :-(
Palpatine is behind the scenes still controlling the pervs and tards.
“Are we the baddies?”
There are many evil empires on the planet.
Russia, China, North Korea are high class in that area...
The Unites States is gangrened by an evil institution mosty managed by a new wave of Democrats. There are not many decent Democrats left. Even a minority of Republicans have been contaminated.
For Russia,, China, N. Kora, IRAN... its too late... there is no hope for freedom for their citizens anymore. It’s over. They have become systemic evil empires.
America still has a number of peaceful ways to get rid of its evil institution though - so there is hope for America. That’s why it’s not en evil empire yet.
And he’d have been disgusted at people like MeganC and her RevMom posting their leftist propaganda on a conservative site. And hey, Megan, do you have enough exclamation points?
Lefty drama queens just love their excessive exclamation points. Makes their posts even more screechy and hysterical.
There are many evil empires on the planet.
Russia, China, North Korea are high class in that area...
The Unites States is gangrened by an evil institution mosty managed by a new wave of Democrats. There are not many decent Democrats left. Even a minority of Republicans have been contaminated.
For Russia,, China, N. Kora, IRAN... its too late... there is no hope for freedom for their citizens anymore. It’s over. They have become systemic evil empires.
America still has a number of peaceful ways to get rid of its evil institution though - so there is hope for America. That’s why it’s not en evil empire yet.
You should come and visit America one day.
Sitting all day in Moscow is not good for you.
Say something nice about America. I dare you.
You have that same tired little response to all of us on the right.
You commies aren’t as clever as you think you are. I hope you never come to the U.S., Mercy Flush. We have enough homegrown leftist scum here. We sure don’t need to import it.
Charles Taze Russell was a false prophet and false teacher. His destructive lying legacy lives on around the world misleading Bible believers. His teachings are heterodox and should be outlawed.
Shut it, you snippy little snot. You disgust me.
I love the USA. My father served for 28 years during the Cold War. You wouldn’t know true patriotism if it bit you in your fat @ss.
What I don’t love is the leftist trash currently running my country and the yippy-yappy leftist trash like you who support it. You, Biden, Obama, Pelosi, Graham and your ilk are a scourge on our once-great nation.
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