Posted on 12/23/2013 9:16:51 PM PST by cunning_fish
A Russian Orthodox Church official in the Siberian region of Tomsk sparked controversy after publishing an article calling unwed mothers “whores.”
Maxim Stepanenko, head of the Missionary Department of the Tomsk Diocese penned an article titled “So many whores in the land of Tomsk! We have no future!”
The article, published on k-istine.ru on December 4 and since deleted, pointed to federal statistics saying that 28 percent of children in the Tomsk region were born to unwed mothers in 2012.
According to a cached version of the original, Stepanenko also called on the “rehabilitation of the word ‘blyad’,” The word is an obscenity connoting “whore” in modern Russian, but an Old Church Slavonic version of it signified “adulterer.”
He argued that co-habiting couples have no future.
The Church distanced itself from Stepanenko’s article, with a priest in the Tomsk Diocese calling it “his personal opinion,” RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday. The priest also suggested that Stepanenko’s views were mistaken, according to comments cited by RIA Novosti.
Stepanenko deleted the article, explaining in a new version that he had done so reluctantly.
But his comments drew criticism from other church leaders. Archdeacon Andrei Kurayev wrote in a LiveJournal post on Wednesday that unwed mothers who chose not to abort deserved respect and not derision, and said that Stepanenko should look for another job.
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Speaking the truth will often cause criticism.
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”
So what does he have to say for the fathers?
“28 percent of children in the Tomsk region were born to unwed mothers in 2012.”
Maxim, you reeeeaaaallly do not want to come to certain parts of America.
They’re usually mega-whores. Just look at the sorry excuses for men in our inner cities.
Don’t know, if the women he speaks of had kept their legs crossed, what he would call the men would be irrelevant.
I suspect that “sluts” is probably closer to the truth, but the good Father is certainly in the right neighborhood.
And what is the man that makes the whore? And what of the whore that doesn’t abort to the objections of the man that made her baby?
Seriously? If the men had kept their member in their pants and not given into temptation or cheated on their wives what he called the women would be irrelevant. But I guess only women have poor morals in your book.
Maybe he should call the women getting abortions and regular womb vacuuming “whores” instead
Can anyone procreate with crossed legs?
Indeed. It takes two to, er, tango.
Agreed.
Except in cases of rap, women have ultimate control, they can give in or say no.
I spent my entire high school off campus time trying to get into the pants of my long time girlfriend, and she spent four years telling me no. She won.
Of course this was back in the 60’s when being a slut was a bad thing, being a whore was a curse. To be with child without benefit of marriage was consider a sin.
Oh, the bad old days. Mayhap they were not such bad old days.
Speaking of Wendy Davis, ............
Not much to read between these lines.
Except in cases of rap, women have ultimate control, they can give in or say no.
Only Mary, the mother of Jesus.
I read somewhere that in Marxist doctrine if it was to succeed against the enemy it had to corrupt the women first.
Once you have the corrupted the heart of a society the rest will fall.
Gee, and what demographic might that be? LOL!
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