Thanks for your marxist hot-take that Christianity is the opium of the masses, simply a means for politicians to control the rubes
Let's first point out the sexual mores of recent US Presidents. FDR and Clinton had lesbian wives. Clinton and JFK literally would sleep with any young woman who crossed their paths. Even Ike had a long-running affair with his attractive female driver. Do we want to discuss the sexual preferences of Obama and Biden?
Putin professes to be a Christian. He engages in Christian rituals, even some extreme ones like ice-bathing for Orthodox Ephiphany. He speaks on Christianity's role in Russian society regularly. He, and most Russian elites, promote Orthodox Christianity and Christian Morals as a path towards national unity and stability after the horrors of the Soviet years.
Even if done completely for cynical reasons - it IS nonetheless done. Which then begs the question - what religion and public morals do OUR politicians in Washington DC promote? Is that for the good of the country?
Huh?
Nobody is perfect. Heck, Trump is on marriage #3 while Obama and Clinton remain with #1. We have perfection in Heaven.
The analysis is simple. Does the sinner repent and follow the Commandments?
There was a great story about Trump receiving a blessing from Fr George Rutler in NYC before the 2016 election. I met Fr Rutler-he’s the real deal in terms of being a man of God and not falling for modernist claptrap. If he blessed Trump, there was some repentance happening.
Putin, for all of his anti-gay etc red meat, is awful. Forget that he’s a communist. Take away the propaganda, and he’s an aging KGB thug with a big following. The whole R-UK thing is a sideshow. Putin is fooling people by the bushel.
I wrote separately about what America wants in her President. In short, we gave up on an upstanding guy with leadership and ideas. We want a Frontman.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4242708/posts?page=11#11
Now, it so happens that Trump is waaaay better than the other singers in terms of life, liberty, and property. He also comes with trwinwreck-like baggage. Such is life, and it looks like voters can live with it.
Putin’s baggage is hellish. Pass.
The same applies to trannyism and other deviant behaviors.