Posted on 03/17/2014 7:45:53 AM PDT by justlittleoleme
Surely, it is still not enough for some of the dictator's stalwart defenders on FR.
I think your take is more accurate than the headline in this story. It is not “Christianity” that is being driven out or harassed, but rather non-Orthodox Christianity. I am currently reading “Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent,” an analysis of the connection between faith and power in contemporary Russia. It is a development that has largely gone unnoticed in the Western press. Russia - like the US and several other world powers - has its own concept of “exceptionalism” and world-mission. Acknowledging the existence of this development does not make someone “pro-Putin” as elhombre and others accuse.
The Russian tradition is the Orthodox Church which is a Christian church.
The problem is that among the Orthodox there is hostility towards Catholics and Protestants.
There are Christians in Russia, its just that they are of a different branch that holds Protestants and Catholics in disdain.
He hates Christianity, the Constitution, and capitalism.
The Orthodox intolerance towards Protestants and Catholics is a problem to begin with, but in the USSR Communist Era the Russian Orthodox Church was infiltrated and subverted by KGB agents.
Now we have a KGB man in charge of Russia, Putin.
Those being suppressed are Greek Orthodox and Ukranian Catholics, not Russian Orthodox. Perhaps the Ressian Orthodox will be brought in to fill in the hole left by driving out the other sects?
Exactly.
But he projects a old macho image to all the little girls. hee hee hee
“...they were totally subverted into organs of state propaganda..”
During the USSR days, Russian Orthodox churches were converted into government buildings, many destroyed. Clergy were imprisoned, many killed and children were taught in government schools “there is no God.”
Why aren’t you in school learning something?
It is said that Vlad was brought up by his mother in the Russian Orthodox Church. I am sceptical of that claim, but it is possible.
It makes no difference though. Vlad is no friend of Freedom. Vlad has nothing but contempt for the concept of Democracy or a genuine Republic.
I tell my Egyptian friends that the path to Freedom is not through Russia. Some get it, others don’t.
Those older people in the Western Ukraine have suffered under Russian domination. The hatred for the Holodomor is very real and will be passed for generations.
A friend of mine in Moscow, says they can band with Poland and similar countries. That is not a bad idea actually. The EU is not a much better path for them. They offer national death by socialism. But I am not sure that the Ukrainians understand that yet.
The Russian Orthodox church is known to many as “the dark side of Christianity”.
These are a few nut cases —radical Russians—operating. Once this settle down all will be much the same. Putin doesn’t want to get rid of Non-Orthodox Christians—just the ones who oppose him. Once Cremea is part of RF—this will stop.
It must be comforting to know that if they follow the rules and kiss Putin’s bum they’ll be allowed to preach the faith.
This is total nonsense, made up accusations. The only people who are complaining are some Muslims, the tatars, who are a minority of 10% and can’t impose their Muslim religion on Christians.
See this article:
Don’t underestimate importance of religion for understanding Russia’s actions in Crimea
“The revival of religion following the Soviet collapse brought Crimea once again into the Russian spiritual orbit. From the 1990s, the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine (UOC-MP) competed successfully with other branches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches to restore Crimean Christian holy places. The Russian church ignored protests of Muslim Crimean Tatars to install crosses in major population points”
“At the center of the controversy, the Russian Orthodox Church began building a church on top of the ruins of Chersonesos without the consent of the museum preserve or the Ukrainian government. It also hired a helicopter to airlift a gazebo to mark the baptismal font of St. Vladimir on the ruins (see photo below). Four years later, President Vladimir Putin joined then-Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma as the Russian Orthodox cross was raised over the completed church on the ruins of Chersonesos.”
That was pretty amazing what he/she just did to you. I’m seeing that all too often on FR.
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