Posted on 12/01/2017 3:38:28 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
"Anyone who grew up with the Eastern Orthodox Church (in my case, the Greek Orthodox Church in New York) will get a good laugh at Vladimir Putin pretending to be a Christian during his first Easter as Russian ruler..."
"The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has been, since its reconstitution during WWII, an instrument of the state. The best illustration of this is probably the 1949 Greetings from the clergy and laity of the Russian Orthodox Church to the leader of the nations of the USSR, the Generalissimus Joseph Stalin on his 70th birthday. It states, in part:
"Witnessing at every step your noble efforts to make peoples lives peaceful and happy, we see in your person not only a great statesman and leader, guiding the lives of people in a new direction of history, but also a fatherly, caring trustee of all aspects of our human existence with all its various needs."
The Russian Orthodox patriarch at the time of Putins Easter show was patriarch Aleksi II, who died on December 5, 2008. Lt. Gen. (r) Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest Soviet bloc official to defect to the United States, writes of Aleksi II, The KGB had carried him under the codename DROZDOV and awarded him its Certificate of Honor, as was learned from a KGB archive accidentally left behind in Estonia.
As recounted by the great journalist Anna Politkovskaya (1958-2006), the bravest of all the many Putin-critics to be systematically assassinated, in her book Putins Russia..."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH AND THE IMPACT OF BOLSHEVISM
https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/the-russian-orthodox-church-and-the-impact-of-bolshevism-59462
Many Creepers claimed Putin was the savior of Christianity and the West.
Bookmark.
Hi Goldie
You and ETL will have great affection for each other.
Putin talks up a good game when the West is weak. BUT does he ever acknowledge the role his beloved old USSR had in the rampant and insidious channels by which Soviet ideology infiltrated and *secularized* the WEST and moved some of our core institutions towards leftism and socialism? (And continues to!)
No, rather, he calls the fall of the Soviet Union the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the past century.
Russia has faithful Christians and priests/monastics among the population, but as a nation it will not be able to claim a leadership mantle so long as it harbors Putin’s government — which directly traces its roots to the Bolshevik terror, to Stalin, despite the collapse of the USSR.
And it’s not as though the tsars* were the much better, give or take a few.
The Russian Orthodox Church needs to forge an identity separate from the earthly whims of Empire. And the Russian State and PEOPLE need to completely divorce from the Bolshevik legacy through a process of repentance and genuine spiritual renewal.
At the moment, the Church there operates as a fascist entity with a lot of surface ritual. Lenin statues, Stalin busts, Dzherzinsky portraits stand proudly next to that of Christian saints and icons. :(
Not to mention Lenin’s body is STILL unburied and lies in full display in the center of Red Square.
Double-minded Hypocrisy at its finest.
Putin did save Christians in Syria. If you meet any Syrian Christians, they’ll tell you
God can use evildoers to accomplish his ends—even good things. Including Putin and Assad.
But by that logic, this is also true:
“Muslim Refugees are Converting to Christianity in Germany”
I believe we’re supposed to think that Vlad is a great Christian and the savior of the Russians or something.
Check your in-box: one can always miss a memo delineating today’s pravda.
What is the “evil” that Putin has done? Not conspiracy theories, real facts please
you appear erudite and therefore must know, the joining of church and state has been the historical norm.
And still is in vast swathes of the world.
In fact, to the best of my knowledge the USA was the very first secular government. Even today there are numerous State Churches in Europe.
Does Ukraine have one?
This one is fairly, though not totally, innocuous by that bigger measure.
And I’m only applying the tape to Christendom. 2when we measure Islam, there is even a closer step toward total theocracy. Each and every one of them imbued with more evil than the ROC.
I think your essential gripe is with the Russian State.
Sadly, many Freepers refused to see through Putin.
I'd call that bearing false witness, among other things...and maybe you'd care to define "creeper" for those of us not fluent in chicken hawk.
From the Russian Orthodox Church's website...
12 February 2016
Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), has issued a statement on behalf of the Council hailing the historic meeting of Pope Francis, pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, and Patriarch Kirill, primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The two leaders met on 12 February in Havana, Cuba.
The Russian Orthodox Church is the largest member church in the WCC..."
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Catch that? The Russian Orthodox Church is the largest member of the (hard left) World Council of Churches!
That is all you need to know to understand that it is a sham operation. Reverend Wrights fake church United Church of Christ (UCC) is also a member. In fact, his (communist) Black Liberation Theology was concocted by the KGB.
The Russians must laugh their butts off at how easily westerners can be tricked and deceived.
The Russian Orthodox Church is a member of the (communist) World Council of Churches:
https://www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/russian-orthodox-church
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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES (WCC)
[lots more at link...]
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7514
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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: LIBERATION THEOLOGY
...liberation theologys real creator was the Soviet Unions foreign intelligence and domestic security agency, the KGB.
Patriarch Kirill, who today heads Russian Orthodox Church, secretly worked for the KGB under the code name Mikhailov and spent some 40 years promoting liberation theology.
Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet-bloc official ever to defect to the West, writes: Liberation theology has been generally understood to be a marriage of Marxism and Christianity.
What has not been understood is that it was not the product of Christians who pursued Communism, but of Communists who pursued Christians....
Its genesis was part of a highly classified Party/State Disinformation Program, formally approved in 1960 by KGB chairman Aleksandr Shelepin and Politburo member Aleksei Kirichenko, then the second in the party hierarchy after Nikita Khrushchev.
Adds Pacepa: In 1971, the KGB sent Kirill who had just been elevated to the rank of archimandrite to Geneva as emissary of the Russian Orthodox Church to the World Council of Churches.... Kirill/Mikhailovs main task was to involve the WCC in spreading the new liberation theology throughout Latin America.
In 1975, the KGB was able to infiltrate Kirill into the Central Committee of the WCC a position he held until he was elected patriarch of Russia, in 2009.
Not long after he joined the Central Committee, Kirill reported to the KGB: Now the agenda of the WCC [World Council of Churches] is also our agenda.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=2990
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August, 2006
Its an odd project considering that freedom of religion exists almost exclusively on paper in the closed communist country.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il is supposed to be a communist atheist.
So why has he made promoting the Russia Orthodox Church his latest pet project?
On August 13, the countrys first Orthodox church is to be opened in the capital city of Pyongyang.
Russian Metropolitan Bishop Kyrill, second in command within the Church after the Patriarch, will travel to Pyongyang to christen the new house of worship. ...
That is so much B.S. Putin was only in Syria to protect Iran's interest in Assad, and to protect the use of Assad's warm water port for use by Russia. Russia was not there to fight ISIS, except the limited parts of ISIS that were a threat to Assad. If you followed what Russia did in Syria, they were not on some mission against ISIS. Any Christians helped were collateral, and very minor. You are being sold a bill of goods.
mac_truck, you are one screwed-up in the head blankity blank.
Christians in Russia have said they are determined to preach the Gospel and fulfill the Great Commission despite tough new laws signed by President Vladimir Putin that ban evangelism outside of churches. ...
http://www.christianpost.com/news/christians-russia-refuse-stop-sharing-the-gospel-despite-putins-ban-evangelism-167442/
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July 2016...
FAITH UNDER FIRE
http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/russia-puts-lid-on-christians-sharing-faith/#34c1Fo2QT9xudcrR.99
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July 2016...
Activities as diverse as holding prayer meetings in homes, posting worship times on a religious communitys website, and giving a lecture on yoga have all been interpreted by police and prosecutors as missionary activity, thanks to the broad definition now enshrined in the Religion Law.
Despite a clear predominance of prosecutions brought against those who see their faith as requiring them to publicly share their beliefs, such as Protestants and Jehovahs Witnesses, people from at least 15 different religious traditions have faced charges. ..."
On 6 July 2016, President Vladimir Putin signed amendments to the Religion Law imposing harsh restrictions on the sharing of beliefs, including on where and by whom they may be shared. ..."
State Church is as State Church does. Our Founders were more prescient than they knew.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Russia's push into Ukraine has put many on edge. But less known is that Russia is also strengthening its military links south of the Rio Grande and re-establishing itself as a power in the region.
Vladimir Putin has been strengthening military links here, and Russia is now the largest arms dealer to governments in Latin America, surpassing the United States.
Russia has even floated the possibility of building new military bases in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and putting its warships permanently in the Caribbean.
In the midst of the Ukraine crisis, Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov recently visited Cuba, Peru, Chile, and Nicaragua, where he announced that Russia would also pour money into the new Central American canal project. ..."
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/140508/russian-arms-military-trade-latin-america
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BY: Bill Gertz
February 20, 2015
Russia agreed to provide military training for three leftist regimes in Latin America and increase military visits and exercises following a visit last week to the region by Moscow's Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu, Pentagon officials said.
Shoygu met with defense and military leaders in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua and signed several agreements on warship visits and military training during the visit, which ran from Feb. 11 to 14. It is not clear whether any new arms deals were completed during the visit.
Defense officials said the Russian leader is seeking bases in the region for strategic bomber flights that Shoygu recently promised would include flights over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-boosts-arms-training-for-leftist-latin-militaries/
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KGB/FSB Putin very much wants a 'unified Korea'...under communist NK rule
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Despite efforts by the United Nations to impose isolating sanctions on North Korea in response to the countrys continued development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles, trade between Russia and North Korea soared more than 85 percent in the first four months of the year.
http://www.dw.com/en/russia-steps-up-north-korea-support-to-constrain-us/a-38867861
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Sept 5, 2017
The US said on Monday it would table a new UN resolution on tougher sanctions in the wake of the latest test of a nuclear bomb by the North on Sunday.
Mr Putin also said that the ramping up of military hysteria could lead to global catastrophe.
He said diplomacy was the only answer.
China, the Norths main ally, has also called for a return to negotiations. ...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41158281
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From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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"Joint war games are a logical outcome of the Sino-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty signed in 2001, and reflect the shared worldview and growing economic ties between the two Eastern Hemisphere giants."
http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2005/09/war-games-russia-china-grow-alliance
Dude
Whatever
Get a life.
Everyone on Free Republic thinks your friggin’ crazy...and I’m bettin’ everyone who knows you in real life does too.
Drop dead, you friggin lunatic idiot.
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