Posted on 07/24/2018 4:35:04 AM PDT by marshmallow
The Patriarch of Moscow led a pilgrimage to the sites where the tsar and his family were murdered. The revolution is rooted in western ideas of progress and well-being. Like Dostoevsky, Kirill calls for the rejection of “temptations coming from abroad".
Moscow (AsiaNews) – Last Monday night (16 July), the Patriarch of Moscow Kirill (Gundyayev) led the pilgrimage to the places where Tsar Nicholas II and his family met their martyrdom, together with the bishops gathered for a special session of the Synod.
The Solemnity had been prepared to mark the 1,030th anniversary of the Baptism of Kievan Rus', which according to the patriarch was "the event that marked a turning point in the history of the Slavic peoples, indicating the way of Slavic civilisation, from the darkness of false ideals to the revelation of divine truth."
In his homily in Yekaterinburg, at the start of the ceremonies, the patriarch stressed that the assassination of the tsar was "the consequence of the pernicious influence of a philosophy coming from abroad, which led to the denial of God, the forgetting of the commandments and the loss of a true spiritual relationship with the Church."
According to Kirill, such influence is rooted in the reckless anxieties of humanity for the progress of their material conditions. By asking "When did all this happen, and why did it happen?" he generally pointed the finger at the centuries of so many cultural and social revolutions in the Western world, "until at some point in history it is as if the train derailed when the driver no longer controlled the speed on a dangerous curve, and three himself towards the catastrophe."
According to the patriarch, the Russian people were hit by the crazy train "when thoughts foreign to us, foreign ideals, alien minds, elaborated by political and.....
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It was the Germans who brought Lenin to the Finland Station.
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The Czar’s family was not allowed to flee to Britain, because of potential bad PR for the royal family, is what I’ve read.
Well, I’m just surprised he didn’t blame it on the ‘Joos!’
I suppose if you think Marxism represents a western civilization movement he has a point but I doubt many of us here think that way. Marxism to me at least is the antithesis of western civilization.
I’m pretty sure there were some crazy Russians involved in all that, too.
The Czar’s family (the Czarina a granddaughter of Queen Victoria) seemed to be a decent bunch that unfortunately collided with a new evil on the earth. Stately people who were slaughtered like animals by a group of drunken trash, ordered to do so by Lenin.
They Romanovs might not have deserved their fate, but they were still inbred imbeciles who laid their empire to waste.
It would have been difficult to pull off in any case, especially once the family was moved to Tobolsk.
THIS must be the Trump collusion with Russia they’re talking about.....
That said, the Russians took it from there and made "Russia" synonymous with "Communism" all on their own without anybodies help.
My personal take-aways from this ...;
1) The burning souls of Lenin & Stalin & crew are achieving quite respectable RPMs in their afterlife.
2) A prime characteristic of Russian psyche is a paranoia over Western Civilization and this shows that it remains active.
3) Vladimir Putin has deployed Russian Nationalism and this includes the Russian Orthodox Church as a bulwark to his powerbase. He is the Tsar in all but the royal robes.
I’ve read that too. Czar Nicholas and King George were cousins— they looked like twins. So much for family loyalty! I also read that Queen Mary helped herself to Alexandra’s jewels.
The West does have a history of bringing down stable, friendly governments ...South Africa and Libya come to mind.
“I’ve read that too. Czar Nicholas and King George were cousins—.”
Wasn’t Kaiser Wilhelm a cousin too?
Wilhelm and George were first cousins, George and Nicholas were first cousins, and Wilhelm and Nicholas were third cousins.
And Marxism is a product of Western European “scientism” and development of Economic materialism. Marx of course eliminated any need for God, and extended Rousseau’s ideas of radical egalitarianism, and even Adam Smith’s ideas on labor and capital.
So, in that sense, he certainly wasn’t connected to Russia.
Couldn’t have possible have had anything to do with that Rasputin guy.
My problem with the Romanovs is what the did to Poland from 1795 until the end of WWI.
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