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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They likely invented the whole damn things in the first place. Cold war era western anti-nuclear/”peace” movements were organized and financed by the Soviets. Not sure about faggots but I wouldn't be surprised...
Putin, despite any for-public-consumption BS, knows full well he has a loyal comrade in president Obama. With his help Russia has a great opportunity to regain much of the strength it lost over the past several decades.
Big supporter of the Constitution, aren't you.
Why should I want to converse with people I know are full of it? People who pretend to care about the US, yet continually pump up an enemy of hers like KGB Putin. You of course can if you want to, though.
Putin made a simple statement that even you can’t deny is true. It’s all of America’s responsibility that this has happened to us because we let it. That Putin has spoken truth is just an insult that some can’t take. Worse despots than Putin will be attacking us because they smell our blood in the water. Taking names won’t help and neither will assigning blame to anyone except us.
Where/how did you come to a conclusion that I was a Putinista? I don’t have to kowtow to your flames or persons with any such crass behavior or expressions. I served overseas in WWII and my brother was killed on Okinawa so there would be among other matters free expression in the US. For you or anyone else to tell me stay out of FR exchanges smacks of too much self show.
And Putin will be jumping for joy as we are being eaten alive, at least on the inside, as he would then be one step closer to being the new big fish in the sea.
I didn’t mean you, FRiend! I was referring to any of them that jumped into our conversation.
Perhaps you are not keeping up with the news. The Soviet Union folded, and the Russian people are trying to implement Democracy and capitalism. That transition has been very difficult for them since they have lived at the hands of dictators for hundreds of years.
Putin is a moderate, and was instrumental in the fall of the Soviet Union. He is a rough and tumble man as evidenced by his history with the KGB. Recall that Herbert Bush was the head of the CIA, also not not known as being a "love and kisses" organization. I have ongoing conversations with recent Russian emigrants who view Putin in favorable light, given certain reservations regarding any Russian leader.
The photos you showed are related to celebrations of WWII heroes, living and dead. How do you come down on the idea of celebrating Southern Civil War heroes under the Confederate flag? I suspect Putin would lose favor quickly with the people of his nation if he failed to pay homage to the heroes of that terrible war. Russians are not fond of Stalin, but they do know his historical significance.
You need to let go of the old Cold War and try to give Russians a chance. I certainly would keep one eye open while dealing with them.
My Patriotism or loyalty to my Nation is not at question here. We are talking about moving carefully into a new chapter of this stupid planet.
That said, I think much more of Putin than that dipshit Obama.
Good friggin grief.
Anyway, take care and thanks for serving (seriously).
Ah, so you don't actually discuss issues.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. –Gal. 6:7
Concur. The Black Book of Communism estimated the dead under Communism as at least 100 million. The best estimate of Nazi deaths is 11 million: six million Jews; five million Gypsies, Poles, Communists, homosexuals, Soviet POWs, and the mentally and physically disabled. However, the Nazis were in power only 12 years, with most of the mass murders occurring after 1939, the second half of the regime. The Soviet Communists were in power for over 70 years; the East European Communists for 40 years; and the North Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Cuban Communists are still in power, although China and Vietnam are not purely socialist anymore.
Comparability between Nazism and Communism lies in the virulence of the ideologies and the ruthlessness of the leaders, although there were certainly considerable differences in the two systems in terms of economics (crony capitalism vs. total state ownership) and ideals (racial purity and integrity vs. radical egalitarianism and elimination of traditional society)
LOL!
The fact that you did not even look at the Breitbart link, use words like “hate”, indicates you are nothing but an Internet Troll, and most likely a homosexual too.
For the record here is the definition that fits you like a glove. You are CLEARLY an Internet Troll.
Here from dictionary.com This is YOU!
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Troll?s=t
7.
Digital Technology, Informal.
to post inflammatory or inappropriate messages or comments on (the Internet, especially a message board) for the purpose of upsetting other users and provoking a response.
to upset or provoke (other users) by posting such messages or comments.
For example, a few lists to look through:
And a reminder of the past in this current and potentially upcoming attraction:
The Hillary Clinton Dead Pool
What infected and eventually killed the Soviets has infected and is killing US and our friends and you have to be in a coma, blind, gay or a progressive not to see it and have your heart broken by this fact.
If the Russians forget the pain of their prolonged Soviet death and attempt to return to their old ways, it will go very poorly for them, just as it is and will continue to go poorly for US.
There is a bigger picture and an overarching authority in charge and, sadly, we're all in very serious foul trouble.
The only real difference between US and Them at this time is that they've seen the bottom up close and personal and "Russia" took it to heart.
Our turn at the bottom is coming.
We want it. We voted for it. And we will get what we've wished so hard for.
Agreed, the democrats are slime balls, too. I don’t want any lectures or advice from them either.
I've reluctantly come to accept, after repeatedly being forced to accept, that in this Kabuki Theatre we call American politics these days, both the demonrats and the republicans come from the same barrel.
We might argue about which come from the top of the barrel and which come from the bottom, but they all come from the same barrel.
By “the democrats are slime balls, too” I meant they are slime balls like Putin.
I think the demonrats and the republicans both are progressives and together they have progressed this country beyond anything I might think, feel or believe about Putin.
The distinction that is important is how much we, the people, now differ from our "leaders".
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places."
Ephesians 6:12
We've got our own problems and we are creating new problems.
Whatever Putin may or may not be, Russia is, as of now, officially more Biblically righteous and a "nation under God" than we are now that we're fabulously out of the closet with Pride.
As far as I'm concerned, if Putin's saying so adds an additional sting, then that's all the better.
We have earned it and that's nothing compared to the rest of what we've earned.
Boy howdy, won't we be surprised!
“Whatever Putin may or may not be,”
You don’t know what he is? Have you been living under a rock?
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