Posted on 02/08/2023 10:35:04 AM PST by thegagline
Closed Churches
‘Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has announced new measures seeking to ban religious institutions deemed to have links with Russia. He said the move is intended to safeguard the nation’s “spiritual independence” amid Kiev’s conflict with Moscow.’
https://www.rt.com/russia/567520-ukraine-crackdown-russia-churches/
It would help if you read the posted article, which says Zelensky has used the war as a justification for outlawing 11 opposition parties.
We are inundated with them. It is pathetic the number of those we have here who parrot Biden, AOC, the squad, Lindsay Graham, the MSM, every Democrat, woke idiot and deep stater in Congress. These are the Neocon couch potato war hawk's bedfellows. Sadly, this group does not realize that when you look around and see that those on the same side as you would normally be your enemies, that it would be wise to try and think about why this is...
Our administration's actions in Ukraine have zero to do with what is morally correct, what is good for the Ukrainian people, fighting Soviet expansionism, or what is good for the US or Europe's population. This is all about turning Ukraine into the largest money laundering scheme in the history of the world. There is no accountability, No one can tell you where most of the $Billions and $Billions of taxpayer funds are going.
But this is only a small slice of the pie, even more is making its way back into Putin's hands through higher prices for Russia's energy exports. Russia made over $100 Billion more on just their energy exports when we compare 2021 to 2022. Putin is one of the primary beneficiaries of this giant scam. This entire mess is the ultimate in stupidity.
So a church that existed for thousands of years in the land of “Ukraine” is banned, destroyed and priests Arrested.
AND YOU SUPPORT IT.
Yes, you are the baddie. Either you got religious freedom or you dont.
“I don’t know about you, but a few of them leave the impression that the “pro-Ukie” sentiment doesn’t extend to average person living in Ukraine.”
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Yeah if they actually cared for the Ukrainian people they would want to end this thing as soon as possible. An entire generation of young Ukrainian men are being wiped out and the country destroyed. How can anybody who’s supposedly pro-Ukrainian ignore this?
OK, but what if he could play Chopsticks with it?
>>They may be actually one person posting under several accounts.<<
ChatGPT goes on the offensive?
Sadly we get these sock puppets more frequently than we deserve.
I’m confident that if some Ukrainian Rabbis were supporting Russia, Zelensky would have them arrested or shot. And if the Orthodox Church stopped supporting Russia, they wouldn’t have any problem with Zelensky. It’s about a national life or death struggle and nothing else.
Lots of Zelensky buttsniffing supporters here on FR as well.
You agree that they don't have freedom of worship? I would think that the people attending worship at these now 'un-closed' churches were attending to their freedom of worship knowing that they were affiliating with the Russian Orthodox, which is now forbidden. That doesn't sound very democracy like to me. How are your kind going to react when the State here starts selecting which flavor of Christianity is worthy of our support, worship and counsel? You know it's coming. From your repeated postings of how good this is for The Ukraine I can only assume you will be cheering it on when it hits US.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill of Moscow is Putin's lap dog.
I'm sure the people attending that church were cognizant of that. So no freedom of worship for them. Uke democracy in action. I'm sure we can find a few questionable church leaders right here in the good ole USA. Let's take 'em down. I can expect you to cheer it on.
Right, a church leader cheerleading Putin's invasion and attempted eradication of Ukraine is just like a "few questionable church leaders right here in the good ole USA". Whatever
I'm sure we can find some of our church leaders who have done worse things. I'm also sure we can find more than a few that cheered our invasions of many sovereign States over the last few decades. Get your church shutting down pants on and get rolling. Maybe you are just presenting your selective outrage.
“Originally installed in a violent coup in 2014 supported by the obama administration”
Wrong.
Zelensky was elected in 2019.
The violence was caused by the FSB and Spetsnaz that Putin sent in to prop up his little bitch Yanukovych.
You are the 2nd banana for sure.
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