Putin Criticizes Western Countries for Abandoning Christian Roots

You Tube ^ | 26 December 2016

[Lorianne]

You Tube video of speech w/ subtitles. Not sure of the context of the speech. 2:25

[Lorianne]

Somewhat hypocritical from the Russian leader of a largely Russian former country that criminalized religion in the recent past, but still, some good comments.

[dp0622]

Since those who oppose him too much either die from bullets or get radiation poisoning, I dont now how much of a Christian he is.

I DO think that he KNOWS Christianity is the only thing that can save his country and the West.

[Psalm 144]

I agree. I am grateful to see Russia detoxing from the malignant influence of Marxism, but some humility would be fitting, given their metastasis of the disease.

[Bryanw92]

Was religion decriminalized when the USSR fell or did it takes longer than that?

[I want the USA back]

While bammy tries to remove this country’s Christian roots.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Somewhat hypocritical from the Russian leader of a largely Russian former country that criminalized religion in the recent past

And was himself a senior officer in the police agency that was tasked with doing so.

[vooch]

russia has good

[bassmaner]

Yes, Vladimir: Western countries have largely abandoned much of their Christian heritage.

No thanks to you and the criminal organization you once served, that actively undermined and subverted Christian institutions for the last 80 years. Do a mea culpa for your beloved CCCP and its Cheka/OGPU/GPU/NKVD/MGB/KGB gang of thugs that was responsible for mass murder on an industrial scale for decades, and maybe then we could talk ...

[Responsibility2nd]

Somewhat hypocritical from the Russian leader of a largely Russian former country that criminalized religion in the recent past, but still, some good comments.

 

Yeah? I'll take Putin's current position over Obammie's any day.

[WENDLE]

Can anyone verify that this is not a hoax. My Russian is real bad. Da

[dp0622]

lol. My English isn’t that good!!

[CivilWarBrewing]

"Somewhat hypocritical from the Russian leader of a largely Russian former country that criminalized religion in the recent past, but still, some good comments.

The worldwide threat of the Islamic Caliphate has changed things. Hopefully, the United States is changing its tune under new leadership. The election of Trump reflects that.

[x_plus_one]

Give a man a hammer and all he will see is nails. you must be a govt troll to be consistently anti christian.

[WENDLE]

Mine either. I am reminded of the “Hitler Rant” that is re done with different overlay words. They are hilarious . Actually I believe Putin might have said these wonderful words. Nothing on SNOPES.

[DesertRhino]

“Somewhat hypocritical from the Russian leader of a largely Russian former country that criminalized religion in the recent past,”

Is it hypocritical? Or is a guy who was born into that system in 1952, lived in it and saw that era end, and now is watching helplessly as the American government has fallen under a militant atheist homosexual perverted cult? He and other Russians have been waving red flags that the bridge is out.

That’s not hypocritical, its a warning coming from bitter experience of something he lived through.

[Lorianne]

I hope you are right that it’s just the case that they’ve learned from experience.

[Ammo Republic 15]

ping

[Scott from the Left Coast]

“While bammy tries to remove this country’s Christian roots.”

Obama is a radical Muslim. His political allies here and in Europe are wholly bought and owned by Saudi and Gulf money. What can we expect? Thankfully enough of America woke up. But it is a close thing. The West is close to death, hopefully, we can walk it back from the cliff’s edge.

[DesertRhino]

“Do a mea culpa for your beloved CCCP and its Cheka/OGPU/GPU/NKVD/MGB/KGB gang of thugs.... “

That orthodox Christianity is not the type we know here very well, but there has been an aggressive effort to rebuild, restore, and turn over to the Russian church numerous grand old churches that were dynamited, turned into barns, offices, etc back in the old days.
They displayed an air droppable Orthodox chapel for their paratroopers. All Russian navy ships are required to have an orthodox chapel aboard. They made it illegal to propagandize to kids that homosexuality is normal.

They’ve been doing a lot of mea culpa if you are watching. And they correctly see the USA as spreading militant homosexuality and official atheism that is aggressively rooting out Christianity everywhere it can be found. Hell, we even built a wiccan pagan monument at the air force academy.

As I said, Christianity is different than you’ll find here, but they are on the right path, and we are on the wrong (hopefully reversed by Trump soon). If we play that childish game that they can never warn anyone about not following their past, we are essentially deciding that they will always be a permanent enemy.

When any of our “allies do 1/10th of what they have done to reverse course, ill maybe listen. Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States? The EU? The UK?

[ifinnegan]

Interesting comments.

They lend credence to the argument that he is using the Orthodox Church as a political tool.

Chinese communists have begun doing similar things. Whereas they had been totally against Confucius, now they are integrating Confucianism in to support for the party. They see how they can use it.