Posted on 07/11/2016 5:26:47 AM PDT by HLPhat
...Christians in Russia won’t be allowed to email their friends an invitation to church or to evangelize in their own homes if Russia’s newest set of surveillance and anti-terrorism laws are enacted. The proposed laws, considered the country’s most restrictive measures in post-Soviet history, place broad limitations on missionary work, including preaching, teaching, and engaging in any activity designed to recruit people into a religious group. To share their faith, citizens must secure a government permit through a registered religious organization, and they cannot evangelize anywhere besides churches and other religious sites. The restrictions even apply to activity in private residences and online....
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>>Well, the Mormon church has announced that they will obey the new Russian law.
AKA the “reformed Egyptian” state-established hive perched in the territory of Deseret?
Survey says...
{ crickets crickets crickets }
I do not have time to give a full reply to your post, which betrays a complete misunderstanding of Russia, the Orthodox world, and those who are attempting to subvert them.
However, you might have noticed that our once great and healthy American system of religious freedom is breaking down very rapidly. We don’t have a clue how to handle islam, which has the characteristics of both a religion and an empire. Trump and others want to ban muslim immigration, others say it’s unconstitutional. Meanwhile, various muslim groups are doing everything to subvert and even kill the rest of us.
Then there is liberal protestantism, which has abandoned the Word of God for “gay rights”, support of Black Lives Matter, and #NeverTrump. Some liberal protestant churches are members of Soros-funded, Alinsky-ideology “Interfaith” alliances, which push liberal initiatives on education, housing, healthcare, etc. at the expense of the Gospel. These organizations ALWAYS end up under the control of Big Labor—trust me, I know from first-hand experience.
Once America had the distinction of having no state-preferred religion, but the HIGHEST church membership and attendance in the world! That is NO LONGER true!!!! No wonder—who wants to sit through a bunch of liberal clap-trap on a Sunday morning?
Now the place where Christianity is growing and thriving is RUSSIA!!! The U.S. and Russia have changed places!
If we want to make America great again, we need to pay close attention to this issue!!!!
Oh, I'm pretty sure these folks knew a bit about the Russian state-establishment.
Made for some very interesting discussion about the "old country" around the Thanksgiving table when I was growing up.
>>who wants to sit through a bunch of liberal clap-trap on a Sunday morning?
This may come as a shock to you, but the body of Christ extends beyond the scope and purview of whatever you're "sitting through" on Sunday.
>>I do not have time to give a full reply to your post
You don’t have time to tell us why your Orthodox opinions and modes of thinking are the only true and infallible - and, as such, why the Orthodox state-establishment should be allowed to impose them on others?
Ok. Thanks.
....This may come as a shock to you, but the body of Christ extends beyond the scope and purview of whatever you’re “sitting through” on Sunday...
The liberal/Alinsky/”gay”/pro-muslim/”interfaith” poison goes WAY beyond Sunday morning!!!! (Look at the participants in the Black Lives Matter demonstrations, for example!) And it has NOTHING to do with the Body of Christ!!!!
And now instead of church attendance, we have the “Sunday morning news cycle”!!!!
>>And it has NOTHING to do with the Body of Christ!!!!
That’s true.
And neither does the Russian State-establishment.
B.S.!!!!
Yep, same Ol’ Ba’alshyte - different municipal toilet.
Good call!
You don’t realize how woefully ignorant you are!!!!
https://oca.org/saints/lives/2001/07/20/102060-holy-glorious-prophet-elijah
That’s our answer to Ba’al!!!! And St. Elijah is one of my favorite Saints!!!
Ba’al is a Hebrew word meaning Master, Lord, Owner, Possessor.
In Tzarist Russia, as in it’s Babylonian predecessor - the Lord, Owner, Master of the state-established theocratic pyramid was the Tzar.
The root ZAR can be traced through various forms: CeaSAR, KaiSAR, TZar, NebuchadnezZAR... to the Akadian “SAR” — SARgon which means Sun Prince. AKA the Bullshyte artist propped up atop the state-establishment.
Ba’al worship is simply the worship of the state-establishment (and the eunuch frauds who’ve been propping their various man-gods up atop their empires) throughout history.
The real Creator calls out and punishes that idolatry — as is observable in the various, multiple, Biblical instances of the offenses rendered by the children of Israel.
How’s Korah liking the heat these days?
Maybe Putin should “make the Sun go dark”... that’s always impressive.
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