Posted on 07/24/2013 10:59:53 AM PDT by marshmallow
Moscow, July 24, Interfax - President Vladimir Putin on July 25 will meet Patriarch Kirill and representatives of local Orthodox Churches who arrived in Moscow for the celebration of the 1025th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus.
The Kremlin press service reported on Wednesday that the format of the meeting is very unique.
"For the first time the Grand Kremlin Palace will bring together the heads and senior clergymen of all 15 existing Christian Orthodox Churches uniting over 227 million believers - the Church of Jerusalem, Church of Antioch, Church of Ellada, Church of Cyprus, Church of Alexandria, the Georgian Orthodox Church, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church, the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Serbian Orthodox Church, the Albanian Orthodox Church, the Polish Orthodox Church, the Church of Constantinople, the Orthodox Church of Czech Lands and Slovakia and also the Orthodox Church in America," the press release says.
The conversation is expected to focus not only on issues of creed but also on pressing international matters affecting the interests of Christian Orthodox communities in different countries of the world.
IMHO that is Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin's job.
Doncha think?
I don't think we are any better, nicer or smarter than we were 2000 years ago. We are healthier; we live longer; we are much better educated and more educated...but better? Nicer? Smarter? No, not even. We aren't descending because we really didn't ascend. We are just people, weak, fragile, hopeful and sometimes HOPELESS.
I also don't thing that our Western civilization is descending into immorality. We are as moral or immoral as people always have been, are and will be. We don't change as humans but there are lots more of us.
I once read that in 1800 we reached the 1 billion mark. Now we are 6 billion on planet earth. We aren't any worse but we sure are MORE.
Just my opinion.
HARD TO BELIEVE, even harder to swallow, but so true. That is DOWNRIGHT scary!
There have been peaks and valleys in our public morality, I agree. But the morality of America has declined in the few years I have been on this earth.
Forced celebration of sodomy, the welfare state, and the willing ignorance of the threat of terrorism, and disintegration of the family, on demand abortion....all of this has grown by leaps and bounds.
I think this is true—and the eastern world has started to grow in its Christian world view. The church in China is growing much faster than in America. God’s spirit is being received by more people in Asia, and that is a good thing.
I’m not so sure. Remember that for that vast majority of its time, Christianity existed and flourished under monarchs. To a great extent, the vast majority of Russian history is integrated with Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization_of_Kievan_Rus%27
It might even be suggested that Christianity has done less well under republican democracies, because democracy, not religious faith, has been the driving force of modern history.
So what might Putin get out of the deal? Not much, personally. But Russia and its people could profit enormously from religious revival. Right now, they are in decline because they lack spiritual purpose. Secularism has been devastating and demoralizing to them.
So, in making Moscow a Christian capital, maybe Putin could provide his people a reason to live.
Certainly is, that's why I posted it.
I doubt stories such as this show up in the Russian Military these days. No, you have to come to American to hear this level of idiocy: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/07/24/Military-Censors-Christian-Chaplain-Atheists-Call-for-Punishment
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