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.
pic.twitter.com/djTMYRp0ak— 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.
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.
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.
Change the "O" in "Othodox" to lower case, and you could change "Volodymyr Zelensky" to "Pope Francis".
Uh oh..Zelenksy (Jesus of the left) vs. the real Jesus.
The Ukrainian citizen has more enemies than just Russia.
Not the supporters that matter.
That confiscated money will wind up in Democrat coffers one way or another.
So it's an anti-espionage measure instead of an anti-Christianity measure.
The ignorance concerning this story is appalling.
Zelensky is the bag-man for the Democrat party. As long as they are in power here, he will remain in power there.
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.
Mighty convenient. Kind of like when the left shut down churches over COVID. “It’s alright, they were spreading COVID”.
Bro....MY DEMOCRACY
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.
So he's a GloboHomoNazi after all.
Who would have thunk it?
The DemocRats will love this.
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.
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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.
“… The law, if passed, will also allow the Ukrainian government the ability to confiscate all church property…”
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