Posted on 10/14/2015 1:44:50 PM PDT by marvel5
The Orthodox Christian Church, which is reclaiming its traditional role in post-Soviet Russia, has just described its governments fight against the Islamic State and other jihadi groups in Syria as a holy war.
According to Vsevolod Chaplin, head of the Churchs Public Affairs Department,
The fight with terrorism is a holy battle and today our country is perhaps the most active force in the world fighting it. The Russian Federation has made a responsible decision on the use of armed forces to defend the People of Syria from the sorrows caused by the arbitrariness of terrorists. Christians are suffering in the region with the kidnapping of clerics and the destruction of churches. Muslims are suffering no less.
This is not a pretext to justify intervention in Syria. For years, Russias Orthodox leaders have been voicing their concern for persecuted Christians. Back in February 2012, the Russian church described to Vladimir Putin the horrific treatment Christians are experiencing around the world, especially under Islam:
The head of External Church Relations, Metropolitan Illarion, said that every five minutes one Christian was dying for his or her faith in some part of the world, specifying that he was talking about such countries as Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan and India. The cleric asked Putin to make the protection of Christians one of the foreign policy directions in future.
This is how it will be, have no doubt, Putin answered.
(Excerpt) Read more at russia-insider.com ...
O Lord, save Thy people,
and bless Thine inheritance!
Grant victory to thine Emperors
over the barbarians
and by virtue of Thy cross,
preserve Thy habitation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvLzNX8MuCY
Holy Orthodoxy is no religion for sissies!
Right on
“Deus le veult!
ping!
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a larger state.
In other words, a butterfly flapping its wings in Texas can cause later a typhoon in the Japanese Sea.
Think about it, in mid-20th Century America an 18 year old pot smoking hippie freshman slut in a Honolulu college has sex with an older Kenyan politician on a student visa, who has a wife and child back in Africa, and from this roll in the hay comes the collapse and dissolution of America in the 21st Century.
Interesting isnt it, and it makes you a firm believer in the butterfly effect.
Also called the Mother Church of Russia, it was approved by the Soviet Union.
Must be nice.
The world is upside down
I am embarrassed to be an American with this POS as POTUS
Inshallah.......................
BtBW, your assessment of what it means to be a neo-con is far more nefarious than you’re leading some to believe.
Being intoxicated on their own arrogance, they cannot see the error of their own foreign entanglement ways. Iraq is a good example. Ostensibly to spread democracy, GWB and his neocon advisers threw common sense to the wind, and what was the result?
Hundreds of billions of dollars, countless soldiers killed and thousands maimed - for what? Russian bases and an alliance of Russia, Syria, Iran, Iraq and Hezbollah.
No doubt it would have been far better to leave Saddam intact.
BtBW, you also give the impression that neocons have a slightly, but innocuous, take on ‘social issues’. The Establishment is comprised of neocons, and they have done nothing to stem the tide of destructive social engineering by the left, and the take down of America as we’ve known it. They have no desire to preserve the rule of law, the Constitution, borders, culture, just about everything. The Republican controlled Congress has done nothing from day one to stop or curtail any of 0bama’s destructive policies. Debt is out of sight and getting worse, terrorists are being drop-shipped in all 50 states, the economy is in the tank, Common Core is designed to prepare our kids for the NWO, and the list goes on.
Neocons are just fine with the wholesale destruction of the United States, and their actions, or more often lack of action, is proof.
Conservatives want to preserve and improve on what is good and right for this country, including a respect for the Constitution and the rule of law.
Well stated, I wouldn’t disagree with any of it, I was just trying not to editorialize too much to a plain question.
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