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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
An expert on Russia. I'll take your word for it.

Russia isn't perfect. Nobody is claiming it is. One doesn't make the transition from an officially atheistic communist monolith to a cultured, religious civilization overnight. However, Russia is indeed moving in that direction but it will take time. In life, the most important thing is not so much where one is at any given time but rather the overall direction in which one is moving. That's true for countries and it's also true for each one of us as individuals. In which direction are we heading? Russia is moving out of darkness and into the light.

This country, on the other hand, is moving in exactly the opposite direction. A profound darkness envelops this country with every passing day.

Russia is historically a centuries old Christian civilization which plunged into a 75 year nightmare of state atheism. It is now emerging from that disaster and attempting to rediscover its past. There are certainly scars visible and there will be for some time but its transition from the world's largest persecutor of organized religion to its main international defender, at least as far as Christianity is concerned, is quite remarkable.

There is of course, a very clear lesson for the US and western Europe in Russia's 20th century fall into the atheistic abyss.

10 posted on 04/18/2014 7:30:05 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Your assertion is based only on your gullible acceptance of Russian active measures aimed at conservatives in this country. There is no evidence for any of your vain, suicidal hopes.


11 posted on 04/18/2014 8:20:44 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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