Posted on 07/19/2020 10:39:30 PM PDT by rintintin
Putin’s mortality and public restiveness over Russia’s chronic economic stagnation require that the regime find a basis for legitimacy other than nostalgia and revanchism over losing the Cold War and seeing the USSR dissolve. Traditional Russian Orthodox Christianity is the only plausible option. Yet violent gangsters taking up such garb does not make them into Christians or Russia into a Christian nation.
I’m old enough to remember when the U.S. was a Christian nation also.
It began to stop being a Christian nation around the time the oral birth control pill was introduced.
Amen.
The guy who posted this thread has a love affair with Putin and that’s pretty terrifying.
Because Marxism is Satan’s shit-stain on existence.
The USSR used the phony doctrine of “liberation theology” in the 1970s and 1980s to co-opt many Christians in Latin America. What Putin is trying to do is similar, although it’s directed toward Europe.
Don’t be bigoted against the Eastern Orthodox.
Educate yourself.
This goes back quite a few years, actually. Putin was pushing an initiative to build Russian Orthodox chapels on their military bases and such - the time period might've been pre-Obama, or thereabouts. The people who believe that he wants to restore Soviet communism always find that fact a tough one to argue around.
I don't trust Putin either, but I acknowledge that he's a lot more complex than the neocon hawks want to make him seem. He does seem to be trying to preserve Russia's pre-Soviet era Christian identity, which is a smart move. Post-Christian "humanism" is a bust in Western Europe, serving only to create a vacuum which Islam will happily fill.
I would reckon that Putin has succeeded in subliminating the Russian Orthodox Church and twisting it enough away from it’s origin that he doesn’t view it as a threat to his power.
IOt’s a deep subject that needs more explication.
I trust Putin far more than Joe Biden. Putin fears God.
Joe doesn’t.
Agree with first and last sentence.
Well said. Never trust Putin.
Maybe Putin has seen what happens to a country that moves away from God?
I think it’s more than just “Western secularism.”
I think it’s downright anti-religious, anti-God. And the basis for that is Satan.
After the fall of the Soviet Union people stopped having children. Russia is facing a severe demographic crisis. While other ethnicities (non-white, non-Russian, non-Christian) are rapidly increasing their populations, the native Russians are in steep decline. Russia is being conquered from within without firing a shot.
The problem is, however, not in Putin’s ability to reverse. He would have to turn Russia into the land of opportunity, which means undoing the entire corrupt nature of the government, which he is the main pillar of. Without the corruption, there is no Putin. Not that getting rid of Putin is a solution. Putin is a symptom, not the disease.
Now ex-KGB officer Putin is building massive cathedrals and fighting to preserve traditional values in Russia
Could be because he believes.
“Why is Russia’s Putin talking about marriage and faith in God?”
Those are a couple of reasons why democrats hate him so much.
Russia’s domestic affairs is as they are, but Russia as a de facto dictatorship and competitor for foreign influence in the world is a different matter. In the latter it is not to be trusted, by U.S.
I still think Putin is Gog of “Gog and Magog”.
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