Posted on 11/25/2004 12:00:10 PM PST by Destro
Also this :
" She insists she is hard-pressed to understand why her dead son inspires such veneration. "I really don't know. It's not the best times in Russia right now. Maybe God is offering Yevgeny to people as a symbol of purity."
I have fought commies for years... some close up in combat.... Russian commies were our enemy... they armed many of our other enemies... I know all that... but I now know some Baptist Russians and they are also as devout as that young soldier and his mom.... I think GOD is changing Russia back to a God fearing country using all their Christian believers... Orthodox and Baptists.... I really do feel HE is.
BTTT
In fact, cannot we ask the moderator to make the political posts go away since they are OFF the topic of the thread?
ROFL. No matter what you say, Putin is behind it all, every single injustice in the world. I am sure Putin was around when I spilled something this morning.
Hope your day is going wonderfully. Thanks be to God for His Holy Martyrs.
I am so thankful for ALL our men and women in uniform, right now, who are fighting the same kinds of terrorists who killed this young Christian soldier.
Do you happen too know what the young soldier's name translates into, if at all, in English?
I agree. Some of the most lovely people I have met have been Russians. I have a great appreciation of Russian history and feel that God has a special plan for them.
Maybe they will be the ones to re-evangelize Western Europe.
"Then comes the change; Lyubov was not a churchgoer before Yevgeny's death but she is now a strong believer. "War defines people quickly," she says crisply. "If you are a piece of shit you crumple quickly but if you are decent, it hones you like a diamond. You need to go through a lot to get to that stage.""
Yes, all of their Christians... Baptist and Orthodox alike.
"Yevgeny was given a chance to live if he converted to Islam and took up arms against Russian federal forces. Symbolically, she says all he had to do was to take off a small silver cross he had worn around his neck since the age of 11 and embrace the faith of his tormentors. Yevgeny refused and chose death instead."
The crown of martyrdom; sounds like a saint to me!
There is a hope for Christian Russia.
Yevgeny translates into Eugene... Saint Eugene, I kind of like that...
the infowarrior
Russia is undergoing a religious regeneration which is quite interesting. A lot of currents are blowing simultaneously, with the Orthodox establishment trying to prevent proselytizing by Western "cult" groups, and American evangelical groups fear a loss of freedom in presenting the gospel in Russia. But I know of a number of evangelical missionaries in Russia who are still going strong.
I almost wish somebody would stop the western cultists from disturbing me by banging on my door on a weekly basis here in South Florida!! : >)
I had a cousin named Eugene. He was a soldier in WWII and was wounded in Belgium.
btt
Unwilling to accept the army's initial claim that Yevgeny was a deserter, she spent nine months in Chechnya finding his body.
How awful this must have been for this young Saint and for his mother to know this. No one went looking for him and the others?? Awful.
May Zhenya rest in peace.
My Thanksgiving Day was very quiet but nice. I hope yours was wonderful too.
He might thought that he was a "non-combatant" but to the religion of peace and the practioners of tolerance he and every other infidel are combatants.
The more helpless one is, the higher priorty targets they become.
They will "peacefully" and slowly cut their heads off. As they are sawing with the knife, they are laughing.
They will "peacefully" blow you up in youa cafes, buses, and shopping centers.
They will "tolerantly " and "peacefully" rape, stab, and shoot down sghool children in their classrooms and schools.
They will "tolerantly" and "peacefully" exterminate every infidel on the face of the earth in the name of their pagan god allah.
According to the main stream media, there is no cause for alarm.
It is those peskt fundamentalist Christians that are causing all the trouble. They are the ones to be feared.
As they learned the hard way in the days of the Crusades you can do one of two things:
1. Let them kill you. in this they are all too happy to oblige.
2. Kill them first.
That is the two options. There is no third.
One of the two options will be selected.
The question is , Which option?
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