Posted on 06/22/2020 5:57:53 PM PDT by marshmallow
Moscow, June 20, Interfax - Head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate Metropolitan Hilarion believes that toppling of statues in the USA is an attempt to rewrite the history.
"We certainly should not project modern standards to the past. People of the past lived according to other rules, they spoke a different language, they acted in a different way, and just automatically transfer all acting standards, especially the existing in the West so-called liberal standards, to the past of humanity - it means to rewrite history permanently," the metropolitan said on air Church and the World program on Rossiya-24 TV.
According to the hierarch, it is impossible to rewrite the history and "it is necessary to pay tribute to outstanding figures of the past basing on the standards that existed that time and not artificially project modern standards to the past."
Thus the Russian Orthodox Church official responded to mass dismantling of monuments in America to people who had to do with slavery, which commenced on the back of the protests against murder of Afro-American George Floyd by a policeman in Minneapolis.
I must be in the twilight zone or drunk. Or both
This Eastern Orthodox cleric has more clear sight than the vast majority of Catholic or Protestant clergy.
The Russians are speaking up for America more than the Republican Party is.
It’s damned disorienting now that the Russians are right, even only from time to time, like this. And a few other times in the recent past.
This iconoclasm (literally, the breaking of icons) is damned annoying, too, because I would like to think that Americans are better than this.
But these jokers, geez, they give iconoclasm a bad name.
I am right there with you and I do not drink. Have you considered that some day we may be running to Russia for safety?
By supporting our statues maybe they’re hoping we will more vocally oppose the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a Mosque.
In the norther hemisphere, the future of Christianity is in Eastern Europe, certainly not the US or Western Europe.
Not that far off. They were taking white South Africans, too. You can find it on Youtube.
Solzhenitsyn tried to warn us.
So...
How many Lenin and Stalin statues toppled over?
All the czar and czarina statues and any icon pre-revolution had to have been cast into bullets long ago.
I would move to Poland, before Russia.
Russia understands that you don’t tear down your history, that’s why they still display the Hammer and Sickle at their Victory Parades, it is their history, good or bad.
It turned out to be the wise approach.
There’s not enough alcohol in the world for me to absorb that in my head.
It’s a reality that It would be safer there four people in some big cities than it is here right now
I agree. I think when people have suffered for their faith, it is impossible for them to look the other way.
Same here. Russia still has leftover communism.
The title is misleading. “Statues to American Slave Holders” makes it sound like the statues of these men were built to honor them as slaveholders. George Washington’s primary characteristic is not that he was a slaveholder, but that he led our army to independence from Great Britain. To consider him primarily as a slaveholder above all else when almost all men of wealth and standing in Virginia in that historical epoch also had slaves (i.e. it was simply the norm) is nonsensical and unfair.
The reason to topple his statue wasn’t because he was one of the large number of important historical figures throughout the world such as Muhammad who owned slaves, but because the people doing it resent his role in creating the United States (a country most of them hate and want to see toppled itself).
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