Posted on 01/19/2016 10:35:47 AM PST by NRx
Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has caused controversy by blaming the rise of Daesh--in part--on homosexuality. In an interview published on the church's official website, he claimed that people were flocking to join the group because of the "godless civilization" of the West which celebrates gay pride.
He lamented what he apparently considered to be persecution of so-called religious values in the West, before going on to offer that as an explanation as to why one may join a group like Daesh.
"We can have parades for the sexual minorities - that is supported - but a million French Christian protesters defending family values are broken up by police," he said.
He argued that because "godless civilization is reaching maturity," it is little wonder that people opposed to secularism and liberalism are joining extremist groups.
"Look how they [the West] build the world - an unholy world - but we invite you to build God's world...And they [Daesh] respond to that; it is for this they give their lives," he added.
"You become a fighter for the Caliphate. So what's a Caliphate?," he said. "It is a society centered around faith and God where people follow religious laws."
This is not his first attack on the LGBT+ community, with comments in August 2013 on the topic of gay marriage causing controversy to.
"This is a very dangerous apocalyptic symptom, and we must do everything in our powers to ensure that sin is never sanctioned in Russia by state law, because that would mean that the nation has embarked on a path of self-destruction," he said.
He has a point. Radical Islam’s constant refrain is that Western “Christian” culture is degenerate, and in some ways they’re right, it is. Western culture isn’t really Christian at all, of course, but it serves their narrative to consider it so.
I agree. He has a fair point.
He’s partly right, except islam is the gayest culture on earth. Homosexuality is rampant although the occasionally kill a few.
They bugger boys, animals, and revile women.
So fleeing to the caliphate because you dislike gay America isn’t he total answer. But good for Kurill for helping keep the homos out of Russia.
Solzhenitsyn warned about this years ago.
Orthodoxy is looking better all the time.
IT’s not faggotry though, it’s more like prison behavior.
Yeah, they’re sickeningly legalistic about it. So long as you’re the perpetrator, it’s acceptable.
I’ve thought this for years. Our own immorality weakens us, makes us vulnerable to attack. A nation that encourages its mothers to murder their own babies, while emasculating and humiliating its men, is doomed.
Our men no longer have anything to fight for. They aren’t allowed to defend women and children—that would be patriarchal and chauvinistic, and that’s baaaaaad.
We cannot defeat “Daesh” with artillery and military strategies.
Only the Way, the Truth, and the Life that is in Jesus Christ stand in stark counterpoint to the false dogma of Islam. The Judeo-Christian tradition that built western civilization is worth fighting for, but how can we, when we ourselves are busy dismantling all that is good and true?
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