Schism: The Russian Orthodox Church severs Eucharistic Communion with the Ecumenical Patriarch

21 posted on 10/17/2018 4:18:59 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

The Ecumenical patriarchate and Moscow have a long history of chilly relations.

boohoo

trying being a PROT!!

22 posted on 10/17/2018 4:20:43 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: CondoleezzaProtege

Our church, he says, has spent the last 20 years promoting things that have nothing to do with Christianity and not promoting the things that are at the core of the faith.

PFFT!

Rome has promoted stuff not found in Scripture for almost 2000 years!

23 posted on 10/17/2018 4:23:05 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

Perhspa some saint can work this out...

A live one or a dead one?

24 posted on 10/17/2018 4:24:02 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

They got out BEFORE Luther??

HMMMmmm...

25 posted on 10/17/2018 4:25:24 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: Elsie; Mrs. Don-o; Skywise

Elsie:

Orthodoxy vs. Catholicism is a discussion for another day. Ilya, who made the Kremlin-critical comment I was referring to, IS a practicing Russian Orthodox believer. I don’t want to sound snarky, but if you had any remedial understanding of Russia and its history (both recent and long term) or experience living there — you would know that he was well within his rights to voice immense displeasure about the brutally tragic consequences (and lingering ramifications) resulting from the centuries old unholy alliance between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian State.

I am wearing thin of the Putin-olatry so called conservatives in America (on Free Republic) got swallowed up in during the Obama era. It’s turned people into the most ignorant zombies about the realities of post-Soviet Russia and its role in the world. Putin is NOT a Christian and his government is NOT truly divorced from the bloody and dark century which preceded it.

ASSAD is no savior of Syria, among other facts... And acknowledging the falsities of Russian propaganda does not let bad U.S. decisions off the hook. But seriously, many of you need a reality check. Not so much as Americans, but as Christians. No serious follower of Jesus Christ would defend the Kremlin, but pray instead for the LORD to show mercy and bring a truly new day to Russia and the entire surrounding region.

26 posted on 10/17/2018 7:03:48 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

To: CondoleezzaProtege

... if you had any remedial understanding of Russia and its history...

I don't.

27 posted on 10/17/2018 7:14:43 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: CondoleezzaProtege

No serious follower of Jesus Christ would defend the Kremlin...

While CHOICE; in THIS country; will kill about 3,300 future American citizens today.

28 posted on 10/17/2018 7:16:21 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

Russia was the first country in the modern world to legalize abortion and while much better than before, continues to have among the highest rates in the world with a demographic crisis to boot.

Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger got a lot of her cues from her long stay in the Soviet Union.

29 posted on 10/17/2018 7:43:28 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

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