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The sexual obsession that drove Rasputin to his death: Countless myths have been woven about him.
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 6, 2014 | Frances Welch

Posted on 02/07/2014 5:15:16 AM PST by C19fan

For someone who described himself as ‘a Christ in miniature’ and had inveigled his way into Russia’s imperial court as a much-revered ‘Holy Man’, Grigori Rasputin spent his last day alive indulging in an astonishing amount of debauchery. That snowy morning of December 16, 1916, had seen him staggering into his St Petersburg flat in the early hours, clearly embracing one of his favourite dictums, that wine was ‘God’s own remedy’. This was by no means unusual according to the police bodyguards who watched over his home on the direct orders of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Tsarina Alexandra, the last rulers of the doomed Romanov dynasty.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: rasputin; russia
Rasputin and other mystics at that time had this crazy notion that the needed to fall into debauchery in order to fully experience Christ's forgiveness.
1 posted on 02/07/2014 5:15:16 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

From the article, “He claimed that sleeping with women he could take on their sins...”

I am laughing myself sick right now! Now I’ve heard everything! Question: Is our Laz really doing biblical work? LOL!!


2 posted on 02/07/2014 5:20:29 AM PST by momtothree
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To: momtothree

What’s amazing is that pick-up line worked!


3 posted on 02/07/2014 5:41:02 AM PST by stansblugrassgrl (PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION!!! YEEEEEHAW!)
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To: stansblugrassgrl

WORST PICK UP LINE EVER!!


4 posted on 02/07/2014 5:45:34 AM PST by momtothree
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To: C19fan

One of Bill Clinton’s role models.


5 posted on 02/07/2014 5:49:19 AM PST by IronJack
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To: IronJack

On your knees lassie. Time for some counseling.


6 posted on 02/07/2014 6:12:32 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept?)
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To: C19fan

I think there is some truth to the idea that people who have greatly sinned in the past can better understand it and help others from sinning.

Some of the best preachers and counselors I met fit this mold.


7 posted on 02/07/2014 6:30:34 AM PST by varyouga
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I knew nothing about Rasputin before reading this....... thanks........I guess......

What a creep!


8 posted on 02/07/2014 6:33:06 AM PST by Ditter
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To: stansblugrassgrl

The line may have been the hook, but i suspect Rasputin had no problem reeling them in. The man was unusually endowed, and in fact, his member remains pickled in a jar of formaldehyde in some Russian museum.


9 posted on 02/07/2014 6:36:15 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: C19fan

This is a very common Christian heresy. Keeps popping up for the last couple of millenia.


10 posted on 02/07/2014 7:15:23 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: C19fan

His surname can be translated into English as Debaucheeson. This adds something to his story when it’s told in Russian.


11 posted on 02/07/2014 7:45:28 AM PST by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Unless his “groupies” were masochists and into painful sex, or were used-up, old gals, I fail to see why having a large member was any sort of advantage.

I wish I could time travel with a clothespin under my flight helmet, and have a minute with the creep; then, I could deny him and his self-proclaimed “divinity” and laugh in his filthy face.

Observing today’s world, there are so many devilish, weirdo idols and followers that old Razzy probably wouldn’t merit even a second glance.

LOL! This was not a good story to read at the beginning of my lunch hour. :-)


12 posted on 02/07/2014 9:55:58 AM PST by floralamiss ("If anything, the new taboo is decency." --Jonah Goldberg)
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To: momtothree

LOL!


13 posted on 02/07/2014 9:58:37 AM PST by floralamiss ("If anything, the new taboo is decency." --Jonah Goldberg)
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To: momtothree

“He claimed that sleeping with women he could take on their sins...”


Today we let them vote.....


14 posted on 02/07/2014 12:03:56 PM PST by S.O.S121.500 (Had Enough Yet ?............................ Enforce the Bill of Rights............ It's the LAW !!!)
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