Posted on 09/12/2019 5:55:42 PM PDT by marshmallow
Botlikh, September 12, Interfax - The common moral and ethical values of all religions represented in Russia guarantee the stability of the Russian state, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
"We have a multi-religious country, but if you look closely, all our religions have the same values. As regards the moral and ethical component, they are practically the same," Putin said in the village of Botlikh on Thursday during a meeting with the Dagestani militia who fought against terrorists in August-September 1999.
"The fact that our peoples retain such an attitude to those values is the main guarantee of our state stability," he said.
Putin also said that 2,000 mosques were built in Dagestan over the past few years. "Those who came here with weapons in their hands under the banner of Islam would never have built so many mosques here," he said.
The president thanked the people of Dagestan who had told him they and their grown children "will stand where necessary" to defend their homeland.
"Thank you for these words. When bandits came here, they made a lot of demagogic statements. But what kind of people were they? I remember when I visited in 1999 you told me they robbed people when they left, took the very last things from people, they put old TV sets and old fridges on their trucks and took them away," Putin said.
"What kind of people were they? Who are they? Bandits, that's who," he said.
Et tu, Vlad?
At least when he says that kind of universalist pablum, I can believe he’s cynical.
There is no “common” moral nor ethical with the “religion” of slay the unbelievers!
Spoken like a man with no moral discernment whatsoever.
[[Basically, they are promoting the state religion at the expense of others.]]
Yup- and like you say they are arresting non complaint Christians
Our constitution was created to protect against government run religion being enforced by mandate under penalty of law if people refuse- Our constitution however was never meant ot restrict government from endorsing one religion or another- it just couldn’t force- but liberals have bastardized our constitution to mean our government can’t even endorse- a religion without enforcing it- Russia is a prime example of forced government religion-
Too many ‘state religions’ worshipped freely for your theory to be legit.
Some protestant denominations and sects are simply viewed as a front for foreign intelligence. That’s because they had a history of being such.
How many are in Moscow?
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