Posted on 11/20/2016 9:20:49 AM PST by goldstategop
LADIVOSTOK, November 20. /TASS/. Orthodoxy has been playing a major role in Russia’s life throughout the entire history of Russia, so it would not be an exaggeration to say that Orthodoxy and Russia are inseparable, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in the film Patriarch shown on the Rossiya-1 television channel on Sunday to mark the 70th birth anniversary of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
"Orthodoxy and Russia are inseparable. And throughout our entire history, Orthodoxy has been playing a major role in the life of our state and our nation," the president said.
"Our moral values rest on Christian values, so in this sense it [Orthodoxy - TASS] is a major part of Russia’s soul," Putin said.
President Putin's remarks on the subject were made in a film commemorating the 70th birthday of Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Say what you want about the man Putin, but this overall trend in Russia, in fact, is what is driving the leftist, globalist, social-engineering, “multi-culti” left to view Russia as enemy #1.
His views on homosexuality have the liberals calling him Hitler. I’d vote for Putin over any Democrat alive
That’s why you EXECUTED the XZAR and hisentire family for jst being Non-Communst.
Link to article.
Russia was always our ally until the abberation of 1917.
It’s time to recognize the Cold War ended and we won.
Never doubt that Putin is a murderous autocrat.
However, he is having a broadly and generally positive impact on the world. And the US would do well to find some common interests.
He is not Stalin or Hitler. He is an authoritarian you can do business with.
Good grief.
'hard to know how to respond to such an ignorant statement - 'been having a Rip Van Winkle nap?
For those who have kindle and are interested in Russia, I would highly recommend ‘The Russo-Turkish War’ by Grant Barnwell. It is a ninety nine cent download. https://www.amazon.com/Russo-Turkish-War-Grant-Barnwell-ebook/dp/B00LIH88JY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1479664990&sr=1-1#reader_B00LIH88JY
The book was written in the late 19th century by R. Grant Barnwell, a northern American whose interests also encompassed American evangelism, as found in his “Life of Moody and Sankey, the American Evangelists: Together with Scenes and Incidents of the Revival in Great Britain”.
To the point with Russia, the first half or more of his history of the war with Turkey is purely about Russia. It traces the origins and the development of the people and nation, the rise and ideology of the Czars, the culture and in very great detail - the religion, and how Russian Orthodoxy both tolerates and limits other religions.
The book is well worth the read for the cultural history alone, and the odd thing that needs serious thought which I have not seen in any serious, formal scholarship is this: Russia today has more in common culturally with 19th century Czarist Russia, than it does with 20th century Soviet Russia.
A further point worth considering when wondering at Russia skittishness towards the West - especially with Europe - is that the catastrophic Marxist and Communist ideologies which so devastated Russia, are Western imports. That cancerous strand of thought is alive and flourishing in the West still, as the histrionic EUniks and anti-Trump rioters and propaganda machines prove every day.
Russia has ample and good cause to be guarded when considering what influences will be encouraged within the still traumatized and sickly - but recovering - nation.
‘hard to know how to respond to such an ignorant statement - ‘been having a Rip Van Winkle nap?
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There is no point.
There are a handful of people on FR who are determined to foment hatred towards all Russian things and people by cherry picking their history, sort of like America haters who will focus solely upon Wounded Knee, slavery, the March to the Sea or whatever is needed to feed their undying hatred.
Russia is hated by the America left for ridding itself of Communism, and by the neocons and globalists for not meekly submitting to the yoke, like our more pliable foreign vassals.
So would I.
You about covered it ;)
The fact is that the Russian people and most of us are more alike than even with the English - lot of shared genetics.
Before the election, I was thinking that were I not an ole great gramma, I would seriously consider learning conversational Russian.....and apply for a visa LOL
Communism did not go away - it just switched over here
Thank you for the link. I find your reply to be very insightful. At times I have apologized to my Russian friends for having to disabuse them of their nostalgia for the US of a bygone era. What exactly are we fighting for or against in other parts of the world? Transgender bathroom rights, artificially high energy prices, speech codes, abortion, destruction to family, ruinous taxation, etc.?
Both sides won the cold war
Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!
Yes—there is Holy Russia, Holy Serbia, Holy Greece, etc.—nations formed and informed by Holy Orthodoxy!
Of course, they are all made up of sinners. But the Holy Orthodox Church is there to lead sinners to repentance!!!!
It is very wrong to assume that Russia and Serbia are America’s enemies—like the criminal clintons and the feckless Mormon Romney (whom I hope will NEVER be our Secretary of State). islam is our common enemy, as it always has been!
An our Orthodox Churches in America have a long way to go before we have much of an influence at all on our country.
Nonsense. Instead what you have is a religious mafia. Putin has just done what real liberals would love to do to Christians:
Russia's Newest Law: No Evangelizing Outside of Church | Gleanings ...
Thousands fast after Putin signs law banning evangelism outside of ...
Russia had "already moved to contain foreign missionaries. The “foreign agent” law, adopted in 2012, requires groups from abroad to file detailed paperwork and be subject to government audits and raids. Since then, the NGO sector has shrunk by a third, according to government statistics.
“In Moscow, we shared an office with 24 organizations. Not a single foreign expatriate mission is there now,” Rakhuba previously told CT. “They could not re-register. Missionaries could not return to Russia because they could not renew their visas." It is next to impossible to get registration as a foreign organization today.” http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2016/june/no-evangelizing-outside-of-church-russia-proposes.html
How does holiness lend itself to destruction of sovereign nations and their people?
It doesn’t, Russia’s orthodoxy is a political tool, as it always was.
Russia also opened the KGB archives, which proved McCarthy was correct in so many ways, about the infiltration of our government and Department of State by Communist.
The NYT and MSM will never apologize.
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