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Russia is The Only Center of Non-Slaved Civilization, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin Believes
Interfax ^ | 2/25/15

Posted on 02/26/2015 10:08:45 AM PST by marshmallow

Moscow, February 25, Interfax - Russia is called to fulfill its Christian mission, head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin believes.

"Russia is the third Rome. Russia is the only center of non-slaved civilization, which is capable to reveal itself as Christian. Thus, our patriotism is not chauvinism, not a call of the blood, not emotional passion for native land alien to any criticism, first of all, it is understanding the importance of the unique Christian mission which, I believe, our people live for," the priest said in his interview with Politrussia.com

According to him, the identity of Russians is wider than the European one. The priest noted that Europe accumulated its moral capital in the Middle Ages and "Genoa and Venice money-lenders started spending it, then it was made by so-called enlighteners, who declared a man autonomous from God and morals, the measure of all things."

"Then bourgeois structure of the society and state. Then revolution. Finally, we've got what we see in the West: new generations deprived of community, sense in life, values and orienteers. Alas, it is not Europe. It's Babylon. At the best, it's Rome of the late period of decline. The goal of authentic Europe are we, people, who remember about eternal and unchangeable values, knowing what they live and die for," the church official said.

He believes this knowledge is almost lost in the western part of the continent, and then "nations will lose its physical existence: they will just die out."


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But would you believe it if, by some miracle, it did suddenly happen? Wouldn't it simply be evidence that the conspiracy runs even deeper than previously thought? I have already pointed out to you that Russia's principal bone of contention with Western Europe and the EU is homosexual "marriage" and its spreading enforcement. Russia is adamantly opposed to it but you simply dismiss this as a facade...a fake. Wouldn't other evidence of growing Russian moral fiber simply be dismissed in the same manner?

Well of course I would dismiss it. Your opinion is absolutely stupid. You can ping me when the Russkies stop buggering their kids, hanging up communist flags and murdering people for minor political dissent.

41 posted on 02/27/2015 10:41:24 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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The Nazis officially opposed homosexuality too, they sent countless to the camps, even though they shielded the deviants in their own party ranks. I don’t think anyone can argue that stance made them “moral”. Every dictator needs scapegoats to blame their failures on. That the Russians have picked immoral homosexuals as their scapegoat does not mean that this is based on some strong Christian moral stance. They’re just a target of political opportunity.

After all, they can’t use the Jews as scapegoats anymore, since most of them left when they got the chance, and the ones that stayed tend to be powerful allies of Putin. So, some other group had to be found, and the homos drew the short straw.


42 posted on 02/27/2015 10:52:40 AM PST by Boogieman
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