Posted on 06/30/2015 8:10:22 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the West, including the United States, for eschewing Christian values and opting instead for a “path to degradation.”
In his State of the Nation speech last month, Putin asserted that, “Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away from their roots, including Christian values… Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan.” Russia has adopted new laws that ban homosexual propaganda and criminalizes the insulting of religious sensibilities.
The law on religious sensibilities was approved in the wake of a protest in Moscow’s largest cathedral by a female punk rock group, Pussy Riot. State-run television said the group’s “demonic” protest was funded by “some Americans.” Russia’s newfound embrace of traditional values has prompted a rise in Orthodox vigilantism. Extreme groups such as the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers, an ultraconservative faction who adopted a slogan “Orthodoxy or Death,” are gaining prominence.
It was not that long ago that the United States was accusing Russia for being a “godless nation.” On March 8, 1983, Ronald Reagan said this about Russia to an audience of evangelicals:
Yes, let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness–pray they will discover the joy of knowing God. But until they do, let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the Earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world.
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The system in the US is an oligarchy run by liberal plutocrats. It can be worse and it will be as time goes by.
He is simply repeating the words of Solzhenitsyn.
You can’t be Arch-Enemies with someone that would straight up hand you your @$$. :)
When it comes to Poland, Russia don’t want none!
Most are. But we have folks here from many different backgrounds. Some, no doubt, fairly young. Others, perhaps, new to politics, and/or unfamiliar with the clever/deceptive tactics of some of our enemies, like Putin and Co, for example.
Oh, I agree, the Poles would kick Russki ass if they tried that stunt.
.....”truthfulness of a statement does not depend upon who utters it. Putin is not making a statement that depends upon his personal credibility. He is describing the West and I agree with his description”.....
‘Truth’ will always ring no matter who’s mouth speaks it.
Anyone with a brain will see right through it, and see it as a cynical ploy by Putin to gain support among conservatives.....don’t take the bait.
Possibly, but it’s much more likely a direct jab at Obama with the potential benefit of what you mention included.
So would that be The Obama Lover’s Ping List?
I don’t take the bait, but plenty will.
You have to admire that about the Russians. They are very good at this sort of thing. Before they were a country, the soviets had an intelligence service, and set out to whack out the white Russians prior to 1917.
Wholly and irretrievably evil.
When I was little, I’d read about the end times and think, “How could it be possible that people would come to kill thousands and thousands of Christians?”
I don’t wonder about that any more.
Of course he's right! That isn't the point. The point we're trying to get across is that he's just trying to win people over with deception, to make him "likeable" to Americans. Meanwhile the SOB is arming and supporting our enemies.
Maybe an illustration will make it easier to get across...
I had my suspicions but now I’m positive.
Russia is backing Obama, Gay Mafia, Green Movement and the rest of the uber-left.
Revenge for the collapse of the Soviet Union.
I’m not being a jerk with this question, I mean it as a legitimate question. First off, Russia “arms” everyone on Earth. So when you say arming and supporting our enemies, I’m trying to think clearly about which enemies you mean exactly. Again, not trying to object to your statement at all.
Putin has a job—he isn’t running for President of the USA—Now Czar of Russia...maybe. But-—when he’s right he’s right. Wait til the next wave of repression as the Catholic Chuch is deemed a hate group for not wedding Homosexuals—or a ban on showing the cross on a church (its offesive to Moslems you know) —the Rainbow Flag will soon replace the Stars and Stripes and we will all celebrate Harvy Milk Day. The Gays will use their new power just as the Eunicks did in old China. America is about to wake up to a new form of tyranny—all powerful. The day may come when Americans will flee to Russia to find religious freedom! Remember Freedom can be lost in a week—look what happened in Germany in the early 1930s.
So what if Charles Manson had said it? Would you give a rat's rear end hearing it from him?
HIs father was a member of the Communist Party - as was he...else, you'd find it hard to eat.
However, He was baptized Christian, in secret - and so raised by his mother.
He still wears a cross with quite a story.
He is now in a position - and has so done - to bring back religious freedom, rebuilt the great cathedrals, etc...
Why do you think out "Pre_ent" hates him - is propping/stirring up the gays in Russia and started the situation in the Ukraine - and now is saber rattling with U.S. TROOPS on the ground in the Ukraine???
Funny how everyone agrees what a liar and schemer O'bummer is - and yet believes everything he says/does against present day Russia. (I wonder what we'd be saying if Russia decided to put troops on the ground in one of our states - in defense of the the NWO?
Putin is fending off the NATO/UN/EU push to establish the NWO in the Ukraine and other Russian border states.
BYW, Are you under the impression that it's just the Libs that are pushing for the NWO ? This should give you a clue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txukr5zgHnw
LIVE LINKS next post re Geo. HW Bush and Putin.- and link to Putin/Christian (the videos run on one after the other - very informative - the 3rdd one tells the story of his cross.
Iran, North Korea, numerous Latin American Marxist dictatorships, including Venezuela and Cuba, the Chi Coms, etc. I know, these countries are now our “friends”.
Dumbass.
Arming yes, Supporting? Is it support or are they customers of some sort.
No, the “Non-Gullible” ping list. In your case, it is an act of love for Putin.
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