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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Moves to Outlaw Orthodox Christianity
Big League Politics ^ | Dec 2, 2022 | Jordan Epperson

Posted on 12/05/2022 8:28:43 AM PST by SoConPubbie

America’s favorite moneypot is back, just in time for our American leaders’ favorite pleasure: persecuting devout Christians on the basis of their faith. Yesterday, President Zelensky of Ukraine announced Draft Law 8821, which will make the Ukrainian Orthodox Church illegal throughout the country. The law, if passed, will also allow the Ukrainian government the ability to confiscate all church property and outlaw both public and private practice of the religion.

Zelensky announces a decree banning religious organizations and churches in Ukraine with “ties to Russia.”

His government has also been raiding Ukrainian Orthodox churches and arresting priests.
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— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 2, 2022

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has long been the largest religion of Ukraine, tracing its origins over a thousand years back to 988 with the baptism of Vladimir the Great of the Kievan Rus’ and conversion of the eastern slavs, of which both Russians and Ukrainians share a united heritage.

President Zelensky announced the reasoning behind the law as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church being in communion with the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow. Of course, all of the main Eastern Orthodox Christian Churches are in communion with each other through a shared faith and deep history back to its Great Schism with the Holy See in 1054 AD. Zelensky has stated he hopes that this will weaken ties with Russia and demoralize any pro-peace sentiments Ukrainian Christians have with their brothers that they have been so tragically spilling blood with since February.

To put this into perspective, this would essentially be the same as if FDR had outlawed Catholicism during World War II due to the United States being at war with Italy. The notion is completely absurd and is just another ploy to globalize and enslave the well-meaning people of Ukraine that have been caught in this proxy conflict of NATO globalist expansionism.

It’s important to note that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church isn’t just in communion with the Patriarch of Moscow, but the entirety of the main Eastern Orthodox Community, including Serbia, Romania, Belarus, Greece, and many more.

The messaging is clear. This isn’t just about disconnecting the country’s faithful from Russian influence. The country is at war, clearly the Russians wouldn’t be able to be utilizing churches as some sort of psychological spy routine. Zelensky’s true motivations are much, much darker. If Zelensky can effectively secularize Ukrainians the same way that our leaders have secularized the West, Ukraine can become a colony for the overall globalist corporate machine. If neo-Marxists and internationalist NGOs can fully take control over the puppet strings, there will be no future hope for peace, reconciliation, or prosperity for the peoples of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and to a further extent: all peoples of Europe.

Zelensky, who is not a Christian, nor has he ever claimed to be, is willing to use his military to raid and persecute Christians to the same extent as his communist predecessors. It is to our most sincere hope that American politicians finally cut this modern day Nero off from our taxpayer money, instead using our funds to support and defend religious liberty in the face of persecution. Our prayers are with our Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox brothers in their upcoming test of fire.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
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1 posted on 12/05/2022 8:28:43 AM PST by SoConPubbie
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Zelensky will lose a lot of supporters over this. I didn’t know he wasn’t a Christian and this latest purge of the biggest Church in Ukraine is going to hurt him and the Ukrainian cause.


2 posted on 12/05/2022 8:32:56 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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How very anti-Christ of him.

Quite clearly he, along with Ukraine, is a cesspit of corruption and is a money laundering machine for global actors.


3 posted on 12/05/2022 8:33:16 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: SoConPubbie
Volodymyr Zelensky Moves to Outlaw Orthodox Christianity

Change the "O" in "Othodox" to lower case, and you could change "Volodymyr Zelensky" to "Pope Francis".

4 posted on 12/05/2022 8:33:17 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Uh oh..Zelenksy (Jesus of the left) vs. the real Jesus.


5 posted on 12/05/2022 8:33:25 AM PST by Codeflier (Screw Ukraine. America is burning, and we need to concentrate on our own collapse taking place)
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To: SoConPubbie

The Ukrainian citizen has more enemies than just Russia.


6 posted on 12/05/2022 8:33:58 AM PST by Antihero101607
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

Not the supporters that matter.

That confiscated money will wind up in Democrat coffers one way or another.


7 posted on 12/05/2022 8:34:19 AM PST by packagingguy
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Not true. Zelensky and the Ukrainian Parliament are banning the RUSSIAN Orthodox Church, which is separate from the UKRAINIAN Orthodox Church and got caught feeding military intelligence information and targeting data to the Russian FSB and GRU.

So it's an anti-espionage measure instead of an anti-Christianity measure.

The ignorance concerning this story is appalling.

8 posted on 12/05/2022 8:35:40 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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Zelensky is the bag-man for the Democrat party. As long as they are in power here, he will remain in power there.


9 posted on 12/05/2022 8:35:57 AM PST by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: SoConPubbie

We should have pulled our support before now. This is a deal-breaker. It runs counter to the fundamental human rights upon which our country was founded. We should not put money behind this kind of behavior.

Since Joe the Fondler is still getting his 10%, no doubt he is 110% behind the Zelensky the Creep.


10 posted on 12/05/2022 8:35:57 AM PST by RatRipper
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To: Timber Rattler

Mighty convenient. Kind of like when the left shut down churches over COVID. “It’s alright, they were spreading COVID”.


11 posted on 12/05/2022 8:36:55 AM PST by Codeflier (Screw Ukraine. America is burning, and we need to concentrate on our own collapse taking place)
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To: SoConPubbie

Bro....MY DEMOCRACY


12 posted on 12/05/2022 8:37:38 AM PST by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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Regardless of if there is any truth to the claims that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is acting as spy’s and puppets for Russia. It seems like Zelensky would be playing right into Putin’s hands if he did ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Russia is already claiming Zelensky is a Satanist at war with Christianity, and this would do nothing but give Russia even more ammunition.


13 posted on 12/05/2022 8:37:38 AM PST by apillar
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Moves to Outlaw Orthodox Christianity

So he's a GloboHomoNazi after all.

Who would have thunk it?

14 posted on 12/05/2022 8:42:46 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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The DemocRats will love this.


15 posted on 12/05/2022 8:43:46 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every leftist is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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But the globohomos say this zelensky faggot is the good guy. Putin is bad for propping up Christianity in a formerly communist country that could have easily ahd the post-communist vaccum filled by islam or other satanic religions.

God comes first for me before anything else. Putin is a good Christian leader who has saved the souls of millions of Russians and promoted Christianity within his realm at a time coming out of atheist communism. Zelensky is a satanic faggot pushing homo marriage and banning Christian churches.


16 posted on 12/05/2022 8:43:51 AM PST by imabadboy99
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To: Codeflier
One has nothing to do with the other. The Russian Orthodox Church has long been known as an organ of Russian State Security since at least the 19th century.

Moscow Church Increasingly Working As Spy Network For Putin Regime

Russian Orthodox Church choses between ‘ex KGB candidates’ as Patriarch

How One Priest Turned Putin’s Invasion Into a Holy War

Russian Tells Shadowy Tale Of Spying Inside the Church

Putin's war creates schism in Russian Orthodox Church

17 posted on 12/05/2022 8:44:50 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

You didn’t know he was Jewish?
Kiev’s fascist nazi-leaning power groups find his religion to be a good screen for their nationalist supremacist ideology. Curiously Zelensky finds no moral contradiction in Ukes embracing Stepan Bandera as their “ father” and national hero. Bandera and his followers collaborated with the German nazis in WW2 and the slaughter of hundreds to thousands of Jews and other groups considered as impure races.


18 posted on 12/05/2022 8:48:58 AM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: SoConPubbie
Zelensky, who is Jewish, is banning Christian churches. Let that settle in.
19 posted on 12/05/2022 8:49:30 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater 2024)
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“… The law, if passed, will also allow the Ukrainian government the ability to confiscate all church property…”
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GIBS-ME-DAT Church property. ALL OF IT!


20 posted on 12/05/2022 8:51:15 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX.)
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