Posted on 03/07/2022 4:55:58 PM PST by RandFan
The leader of the Russian Orthodox Church said his country’s invasion of Ukraine was a divine mission in opposition to gay rights.
According to a Monday report in the Moscow Times, Patriarch Kirill backed Russia’s “military operation” in Ukraine and called it a conflict over “which side of God humanity will be on.”
He drew attention to Ukraine‘s gay-pride parades and pro-LGBT laws, and called them a “loyalty test” and an example of Ukraine’s attempting to refashion itself in the cultural image of NATO nations.
“Pride parades are designed to demonstrate that sin is one variation of human behavior. That’s why in order to join the club of those countries, you have to have a gay pride parade,” he said in his sermon for Forgiveness Sunday, the last Sunday before the start of Lent in the Orthodox calendar.
“We know that if people or countries reject these demands, they are not part of that world, they become strangers to it,” Kirill said.
But, he noted, Russia and the breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine, which de facto broke away from Ukraine in 2014 and run by pro-Russia separatists, have “fundamentally rejected” those tests.
“For eight years there have been attempts to destroy what exists in Donbas,” Kirill said. “In Donbas there is a rejection, a fundamental rejection of the so-called values that are offered today by those who claim world power.”
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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!
Campion: True but at least before the USSR, it was at least tied to a Czar who was Russian Orthodox. But yes, you are correct it is very similar to the King of England and the Anglican-Protestant Church of England being a state church that was tied to the national interest of England.
By this sort of logic the destruction of the Russian state would be justified by Russian involvement in the human trafficking trade.
Of course many other countries would also qualify for the same kind of military cancelling.
So, eff it, just nuke the planet from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure!
If it were only true.
No, the gay pride flags on the US embassies is looney.
Wrong message to the host nation.
in Australia, Murdoch’s Foxtel cable tv removed Russia Today channel, and installed a PRIDE channel, which appears to be LGBTQ+ stuff 24/7.
The US requires the gay pride parades and all the homosexual promotional laws for countries seeking US dollars and the Obama/Biden State Department, maybe the one before, got what they wanted. The Obama Ambassador to Ukraine was lesbian and let the gay parades. There were pictures published of her doing so in the media. It’s been a US policy for some time.
All kinds of bizarre “justifications” for Russian aggression have been flung around by the pro-Russia crowd, but this is a new one.
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Leviticus niv
18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable.
They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them;
they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it.
Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
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2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight.
They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
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Ezekiel 16:49-50 "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom:
She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
They were haughty and did detestable things before me.
Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Well I don’t think I will cry a single tear if the ROOSKIES kill all the HOMO/LESBO/TRANNY whatevers in the Ukraine.
Just TO BAD, SO SAD.
“The leader of the Russian Orthodox Church said his country’s invasion of Ukraine was a divine mission in opposition to gay rights.”
If he was correct, Russia would win. But they won’t.
I do not disagree that the homosexual agenda is corrupting the world and dragging us to Hell.
But Russia won’t be the one to stop this.
That Russia is not a partaker in it is commendable, but this alone will not absolve Russia of its many other crimes.
Poland is every bit opposed to the homosexual agenda as Russia claims to be.
But the New Order wants fraticide between the Slavic peoples because they are the last holdouts to the New Order.
Real faith is never spread by the sword. That is force.
update. Foxtel has now removed the PRIDE Channel.
guess it was just up for the week when Australia has its gay Mardi Gras (last Saturday).
GMAFB.
Orthodox Clerics Call For Stop To War In Ukraine In Rare Challenge To Russian Government
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4043731/posts
Luke 17:28-30
King James Version
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2017%3A28-30&version=KJV
(Real faith is never spread by the sword)
Agreed
ah, so the ‘nazis’ and ‘nationists’ in Ukraine are... gay? : p
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