Posted on 07/29/2023 12:55:16 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
“All citizens will be required to change their underwear every half hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check.”
Not just the Russian Orthodox celebrate Christmas on January 7th (Three Kings Day) - all Orthodox churches do.
the Ukies are not going to like that. Their tradition here in our Upstate Community is in January. They do celebrate Christmas for the kids...
We are the land of Freedom Fries.
ESPN won’t show the flag of Russian or Belarusian players in tennis.
Our world is run by childish t***s. It’s maddening to any thinking individual.
He’d probably move it to Hunter’s birthday for a couple billion more.
The UOC indicates it will still celebrate Christmas on 7 January along with many millions of other orthodox churches throughout the world
L.o.L
Like there are not tens of millions of orthodox Christians in the US and many other countries.
Zelensky shares some traits with Herod, another short man of dubious Jewish ancestry, a puppet put in place to rule by an empire power, and who defined tenets of faithful observance by decree
The majority religion in Ukraine is Orthodox.
78%.
Actually, many if not most Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7, in many different countries. It’s not so much a Russian thing as an Orthodox thing.
During Soviet times, they had no official Christmas, but replaced Christmas with New Year (when Grandfather Frost left gifts for the children). Stinkin’ atheist commies. But it kinda reminds one of how we turned St. Nicholas into a pagan elf Santa Claus. Hmm.
78% of Ukraine is Orthodox.
It’s not because of three Kings Day (Epiphany). It’s the difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
“The Russian Orthodox Church uses the abandoned Julian calendar. January 7th on the Julian calendar corresponds to December 25th on the Gregorian calendar which we all use.”
Yes, it does use the antiquated Julian calendar — but only for movable religious feast days: It follows the Gregorian calendar for everything else.
Pretty much the whole world — with the exception of a handful of Moslem countries (Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia) and Ethiopia — uses the Gregorian calendar for civil and secular dates (as does Russia).
And the Julian calendar’s January 7 only corresponds to the Gregorian December 25th at the present time; it will change with the calculation of leap year (which is one of the big differences between the Gregorian calendar and the Julian calendar).
“Sorry… then THIS Non-Christian is DECREEING THAT ALL (e.g., Greek, Ukrainian) OF ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY is an outlier. How friggin’ presumptuous!”
Well, they are. Think about it: They only subscribe to the Julian calendar for movable religious feats; they follow the Gregorian calendar for everything else.
Orthodox Christianity is followed by about 225 million people, whereas the total population of Christians worldwide is 2.4 BILLION. Thus, the Orthodox number is less than 10% of the total number of Christians. In statistics — depending on the model — that would constitute an outlier; in other statistical models it would not.
That’s not presumptuous.
Ukraine is everything the left wants to turn this country into.
“Have they stopped eating Russian borscht, and drinking Russian vodka yet?”
Ukrainian borscht is different than Russian borscht. https://www.yobabafoods.com/food/russian-ukrainian-food-difference/#:~:text=Bortsch%20gives%20us%20greater%20insight,more%20likely%20to%20use%20beef. Ukrainians drink Ukrainian vodka - but they banned the sale of alcohol at the beginning of the war.
No 12 days of Christmas for you!!!
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