He despises their atheism as much as he turns aside from the amoral secularism of the decadent West. His appeal is to the vitality of Christianity and the greatness of Russia.
He has reconnected his country with the well-springs of Slavic civilization. We in the West are in danger of forgetting the foundations of our own heritage.
We are absent more than anything else - from the spiritual battlefield. We do not have answer to Putin on the revived vigor of the Orthodox Christian civilization in the East.
That overshadows even Crimea.
It wasn’t that long ago this bitch was telling us how wonderful Obama was.
Man, the things you guys read into this old KGB guy.
If that is not true, then Russia is in for a rough time and a return to the struggles of her recent past, just as we are now in our fall from Grace into Satan's embrace.
“....values that unite the people of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.”
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Meaning: Ukraine and Belarus had better be prepared for internal strife and Russian takeover.
Putin speak with forked tongue, Kemosabe.
“...older great Russia...”? WTF, Peg - lay off the bourbon. I don’t know how far back she’s going, but Russia went from a monarchy full of ignorant starving peasants to a series of dictatorships full of ignorant starving peasants to an oligarchy full of ignorant starving peasants. Other than fossil fuels and weapons, their only exports are prostitutes and mobsters.
politicians often use issues and themes that they do not believe in
for example:
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/26/6271916/fbi-california-sen-leland-yee.html
A man sincere about God in the past would not assassinate rivals and reporters with polonium poisoning.
A man sincere about God in the present would publicly admit their sin and atone for it - as did King David - including accepting whatever judicial punishment is warranted.
You are delusional. There is NOTHING to indicate Putin is a ‘believer’ in ANY sense of the word. He is , was, and always will be KGB. He is no more Christian than O is.
That fact that he will lie to you to get his own way tells you everything you need to know. He is brutal and dictatorial. Do not be deceived. He is a COMMUNIST through and through.
The anti-Christ will speak of God convincingly too...
While Russia is the master of classical romance, it’s important not to romanticize its leadership.
Too bad Noonan snapped her rudder. She’s a talented writer.
Putin has all kinds of reasons to publicly espouse religion - as a means of combating the alcoholism rampant in Russian society, of gaining allies, of establishing a sense of national identity, of getting Russians to reproduce again. Putin could easily be trying to use God for his own ends, and there is far more reason to think that he is than that he isn’t.
That Putin is also taking measures to suppress non-Orthodox Christianity is most telling as to Putin's purposes with the church. Putin helps the Orthodox church to the extent the Orthodox church helps Putin.
In danger?
I think not.
I think it's already a done deal!
Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620.
April Fool's Day must have arrived a few days early this year.
Sorry, while I enjoy seeing him poke Obama, Putin is no hero. He is a Stalinist who is actively trying to rehabilitate the image of old Joe the mass murderer.