~Draw a line between the church and faith?
I don’t even know what you mean, what church, what faith, what line, what are you talking about?~
Let’s be less abstract. There are numerous cases of corruption within the Catholic Church.
Does it really compromise a Catholic Faith?
I’m not a fan of Russian Church nor many Russians who are much more experienced in understanding realities through government propaganda than many of the self-proclaimed vigilant consevatives on this forum.
So, people are capable to to be a true Christians there, while being suspicious to a government-friendly Church and it’s intentions at the same time.
Putin’s pro-Christian posture is still a positive factor, is it sincere of not.
Putin is oppressing religion, not allowing free practice of it, and he is establishing a state church, corrupting it, and conspiring with it to keep out uncorrupted Christians.
That is deadly and anti-Christian, it is corrupt and evil.