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."
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.
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.
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