Posted on 10/22/2017 5:41:17 PM PDT by marshmallow
MOSCOW — Many commentators in American media see Russian President Vladimir Putin as an authoritarian leader who rigs elections at home and abroad, silences political adversaries, rescinds civil rights and tirelessly plots to revive a Soviet-sized empire.
While some of his own citizens share such criticisms, others celebrate Putin as an Eastern Orthodox czar, warring with the forces of the Antichrist in an apocalyptic struggle for the soul of Christian civilization.
“We consider Putin to be a modern form” of this kind of Christian leader, said Aleksandr Dugin, the controversial philosopher PBS recently described as a Russian “TV fixture and firebrand” who for years has “inspired the Kremlin’s ideology.”
Putin is “our ‘katechon,'” said Dugin, referring to “the figure mentioned by St. Paul in his writings concerning the end of time.” The word literally means “the ‘supporter’ who prevents the coming of the Antichrist,” a role that some Orthodox theologians attributed to the Byzantine emperors.
According to Dugin, the Antichrist is found today in the secularizing forces at work in Western countries, particularly in the United States.
In contrast, Dugin highlights Putin’s efforts to discourage the practice of homosexuality, protect Christians in the Middle East and promote the Orthodox Church in Russian society as evidence of his Christian leadership.
“President Putin is certainly the figure that advances this Orthodox, Christian, Russian agenda, and he defends our identity,” Dugin told Catholic News Service.
Once a high-profile academic, Dugin was head of the Department of Sociology of International Relations at Moscow State University in 2014. At that time, he was accused of supporting violence in Ukraine.
Then, in 2015, Dugin was added to the U.S. Department of Treasury’s “Specifically Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List” for his support of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.
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>>While some of his own citizens share such criticisms, others celebrate Putin as an Eastern Orthodox czar, warring with the forces of the Antichrist in an apocalyptic struggle for the soul of Christian civilization.
The American Progressives, who are agents of anti-Christ, certainly believe that.
like see himself as some sort of latter day Peter the Great.
While I do not buy that image of Putin, I can’t help but say that some of it rings a bit of truth.
A murderous thug who has used the Orthodox Church to further his agenda. Defending the faith doesn’t require the assassination of political opponents, the invasion of neighbouring countries or the creation of an economic oligarchy to benefit himself and his cronies. Putin’s only gods are himself and power.
Do what’s right. Be true to your faith.
He appears to try to do both.
What’s the problem?
As I said I don’t buy that regarding Putin. What I do lend a bit of truth to is the decadence of this country within a majority of the leftist citizenry, but not exclusively them.
A murderous thug who has used the Orthodox Church to further his agenda.
Yep. Like all good Bolsheviks for the past 100+ years Putin has made the ROC his poodle.
The Christian Crusaders did all of that and stopped the spread of Islam in Eastern Europe, and I believe many Middle Eastern Christians would disagree with that statement, but we can't ask them, they've been murdered (as opposed to "assassinated").
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No KGB agent alive could hold a candle to Peter The great. Not when it comes to sheer ruthlessness.
Putin has prevented the homosexual mafia from taking over his country, unlike here where a Christian can be sent to jail for refusing to make a homo-marriage cake.
Putin has more morals than Obama and the vast majority of the democrat party members.
More like an arm of the KBG, which it has been in the past.
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Which means that the state Russian Orthodox church now has even more power to deal with its competition. A return to the "good ol days." C h e k i s t s i n C a s s o c k s : T h e O r t h o d o x C h u r c h a n d t h e K G B
And don't try to argue this law is only designed to combat Islam, which would make them inept at writing laws.
The heretical religion of Marxism died. Putin may not be a believer, but he knows that the country needs a cultural and moral compass. The traditional Orthodox Church provides that, and can also be useful politically.
Christian KGB Chief ?
Extreme dissonance.
Later.
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