[MotorCityBuck]

So Rubio being a RC is not important to geopolitics.
Huh.
No kidding.😂
Your grasping my friend.🤡🦎

[blitz128]

The Russian orthodox “church “ is nothing but an extension of the state

[madison10]

What do SoS Rubio’s religious views have to do with anything?

[madison10]

There go the “Trump loves Putin” memes.

[Sir_Humphrey]

Screw em if they don’t like it.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Peskov clarified that personal faith is an individual right, but it does not influence geopolitical dynamics or the current strained relations between Russia and the United States.”

Did somebody say it did? He’s answering a question that nobody asked.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Working hard, laddie.

Found news in Algeria: Business Zone No. 20 BP 63 Bis, Saïd Hamdine, Bir Mourad Rais

[spincaster]

Vise versa!

[MayflowerMadam]

Why do they even do that — the ashes on the forehead? I’ve looked for a chapter and verse on that. Nada.

[Vision]

It’s not news that the Kremlin would like everyone to follow their state sponsored religion.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Hey zeeper, here is a simple explanation of the t.

https://x.com/hussainshafiei/status/1897091330817331583?s=46

[No Party Affiliation]

Maybe if Rubio knelt, faced Mecca and said a prayer he would have received a warmer response, both from Russia and this nitwit writer.

[ChessExpert]

There isn’t much here to work with. The Russian comment is simply rational, as usual. The headline, combined with the writer’s identity (as pointed out by others at FR) is more interesting. Perhaps the author does not want to see a Christian alliance.

[rrrod]

Russia is not a friend to civilization. Period.

[bantam]

Too F’n Bad-—Deal w it!!!!!!!!

[John S Mosby]

Ok, great Russia— Russian Orthodox vs RC Rubio or would that be WANNABE old Stalinist Communist good ole days vs Anti-Communist (any religion) SecState or any number of non-RC countries having a problem.

This is a pretty stupid statement coming from the degrading Russian oligarchy soon to lose their last East German KGB agent president. They have no succession plan, willing to bet.

[Wallace T.]

The former Tsarist regime was not friendly to the Roman Catholic Church, the various Protestant denominations, and sects like the Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses that are post-Protestant. The Communists under Lenin and Stalin persecuted all religions but when the Germans penetrated deep into Soviet territory in 1941, Stalin made a deal with the Russian Orthodox leaders to end official persecution. After the fall of Berlin, Stalin kept his deal but his successor, Khrushchev, resumed religious persecution. In the meanwhile, the NKVD/KGB penetrated the Russian Orthodox Church, ensuring that the clergy would be pro-Soviet. The exiled Russian Orthodox Church outside the USSR split from the church inside the country. Brezhnev ended the anti-religious campaign after Khrushchev was ousted. However, the Communists did not trust the Western based religions like Roman Catholicism and the various Protestant and post-Protestant denominations, considering them agents of American and British intelligence.

After the Soviet Union was dissolved, the post-Communist Russian government actually encouraged religion and allowed the rebuilding and restoration of Russian Orthodox churches that were destroyed or turned into secular facilities. The Putin regime recognized four religions as native to Russia: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism. By Christianity, the Russian government meant the Russian Orthodox Church. Roman Catholics and other Christian groups are tolerated only insofar as they do not actively proselytize Russian Orthodox believers. The old Tsarist and Soviet attitudes about Western based Christians persist. The Jehovah's Witnesses sect were determined to be "extreme" in 2017 and made illegal. Baptist and Catholic websites indicate that their co-religionists in Russia and Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine are facing restrictions on organizing and engaging in activities.

[bimboeruption]

[Allegra]

[Socon-Econ]

The article is an attempt to create religious strife where none exists. Whatever differences may exist between the USA and Russia, they are not based on religion. The problem for both countries is atheism and Islam, not the ancient split between eastern and western Christianity.