I'm not blind about who and what Putin is, but God has built His Church under worse, as long as the people were willing to follow Him.
Well said ,dear friend.
What the US has become is far the greater evil compared to Russia, and Putin has much more Christian ideals than Obama ever will .
Given a choice,I would not want either, but it does not look good for Obama and the US when looking through the lens of humility and love of neighbor.
The Russian people have more care of others than the spoiled brat youth in this country
“The Russian people have more care of others than the spoiled brat youth in this country”
LOL, I know plenty of Russians, both within an without of that country, who would vehemently disagree. Of course, theirs isn’t spoiled. They’re too poor to be.
I remember during the Georgian war, seeing photos of Russian soldiers burning American flags and saying “You’re next, America!” Meanwhile, lots of photos of decapitated Georgians, their bodies strewn across fields. And all because Russia wanted the oil pipeline. What’s frightening is the idea that they will justify such atrocities against us under the banner of religion, and us needing killing for being so sinful, since the Kingdom of God is centered in Moscow.
This has become the official line from the Kremlin. It is less surprising, given what sits in the Kremlin if you realize that the KGB was always about control and not about ideology. Kremlin is no longer Communist, — in fact it hasn’t been that since about 1960 (the Chinese were first to notice), — and the Kremlin finds the tale of Christian Russia useful.
The truth is, there is a small, very small core of Orthodox believers in Russia; and a vanishingly small amount of Catholics and Protestants. The typical Russian Orthodox is 50% likely to also not believe in God. Don’t laugh, I got statistics. Of those who identify themselves as Orthodox, under 10% visit church on any regular basis. Orthodoxy has become an ethnic attribute, and since the Russians feel irritated by just about any other nation, Orthodoxy becomes very important to them, not as faith but as attribute.
The Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchy) is a branch of government in Russia. The government promotes them and they promote the government. That, too is not necessarily new: MP toasted Stalin as their liberator and benefactor while he was starving and bleeding the country to death. Ther last honest Russian patriarch was Holy Martyr Tikhon, who died in 1925, and even he appears to have been intimidated into a measure of collaboration with the Reds. The Orthodox core would be nourished by the debris left of Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and various fractions of the dissipated Catacomb Church.
This, in short is not a model of re-Christianization of the West, as much as I would like it to be.
Before anything good comes out of Russia it needs to be de-sovietized, both the nation and the Church. At this point in time, Putin works on re-sovietization and the Church is running interference for him.