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REX: Carl Bildt thinks Eastern Orthodoxy is main threat to western civilisation
agora-dialogue.com ^

Posted on 05/05/2014 11:37:22 AM PDT by bad company

Stockholm. Carl Bildt, Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and one of the architects of the EU Eastern policy, thinks Russia has changed for the worse in the past several years. While it demonstrated attachment to western values in the first decade after the Soviet Union fell apart and tried to impose them on its citizens, Russia’s current leadership takes a firm stand against the West, the Russian agency REX reported.

In the words of Mr Bildt, Vladimir Putin demonstrates attachment not to world but to Eastern Orthodox values, which becomes clear from a Twitter post of his [Bildt’s].

”The new anti-west and anti-decadent line [of conduct] of Putin is based on the deep conservatism of Eastern Orthodox ideas,” Carl Bildt is convinced.

The Swedish minister explains the striving to destroy the Ukrainian church and bring the Ukrainian autocephaly back into the fold of the Moscow Patriarchate with Putin’s striving to gain control over Ukraine. But precisely Eastern Orthodoxy, according to Bildt, is the main threat to western civilisation.


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1 posted on 05/05/2014 11:37:22 AM PDT by bad company
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To: bad company

What an idiot. And the “religion of peace” which has as its goal the destruction of civilization?


2 posted on 05/05/2014 11:41:50 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: bad company

So we should let the Islamics take over? Nature abhors a vacuum so that must be what he is saying.


3 posted on 05/05/2014 11:42:52 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: bad company

Mr Bildt, do da religion “Islam” mean anything to ya?

It is a summation of all things that went wrong with religion, philosophy, and just plain intellect.


4 posted on 05/05/2014 11:43:31 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: bad company

If this guy is like the rest of the Eurocrats, “Western” means a steady march to atheism and vice-as-virtue.


5 posted on 05/05/2014 11:48:06 AM PDT by DesScorp
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To: bad company
So this elitist oligarch and his ilk are the ultimate arbiters of what a sovereign nation`s culture should or should not be?

Pound sand!

6 posted on 05/05/2014 11:49:42 AM PDT by nomad
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To: bad company

Eastern Orthodox Christians have more in common with Evangelical Protestants than they do with secularist Eurotrash like this nimrod Swede.


7 posted on 05/05/2014 11:53:38 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: bad company

Except that’s not what he said.


8 posted on 05/05/2014 12:01:42 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
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To: bad company
Damned straight.
People that think God the Holy Spirt proceeded from God the Father and not from God the Father AND God the Son ... well, there is just no reasoning with them...
9 posted on 05/05/2014 12:29:50 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: El Cid

Well, you are describing the ‘filioque’ disagreement, which has been been settled, from what I hear. But then, perhaps it is just a rumor of Angels.


10 posted on 05/05/2014 12:57:26 PM PDT by firebasecody (Orthodoxy, proclaiming the Truth since AD 33)
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To: firebasecody
Well, you are describing the ‘filioque’ disagreement, which has been been settled, from what I hear.

I could be a bit behind the times (a millennium?). I thought this was the brouhaha that caused the split between the Latin and Eastern Churches. A more esoteric (and inconsequential) issue would be tough to find...

11 posted on 05/05/2014 1:02:29 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: El Cid

I think it was pure politics. JMHO. We should be in communion with each other.


12 posted on 05/05/2014 2:03:48 PM PDT by firebasecody (Orthodoxy, proclaiming the Truth since AD 33)
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