Posted on 05/24/2021 7:40:01 PM PDT by marshmallow
Moscow, May 24, Interfax - The Russian Foreign Ministry called the US State Department's assessment of the country's policy on religious freedom" biased and non-objective".
"We would like to stress again: protection of religious rights is one of absolute state priorities for us. Russia has always been a multiconfessional state and today it shows to the world an example of it," the Russian Foreign Ministry's Ambassador-at-Large Gennady Askaldovich said in a comment posted on the Foreign Ministry's website.
US State Department has recently published its report on religious freedom and it as well refers to Russia. Speaking about the document and the report of the American Commission on Religious Freedom the diplomat said that it contains "the same set of politicized cliches and fabrications."
He stressed that all cases of banning in Russia certain religious associations or "other structures, using religion in their selfish goals" were connected only with violations of the Russian legislation, and corresponding procedures are used only in extreme cases after repeated warnings from law-enforcement agencies.
Askaldovich rejected the accusations of the State Department that the Russian Orthodox Church presumably enjoys "a special position." "It is not serious, absolutely! Every year we have to explain that the Russian Orthodox Church is Russia’s biggest religious organization acting in a wide spectrum of social sphere and we should not forget that it formed the identity of our country in many aspects," the diplomat said.
"All confessions without exception - Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Protestants, Catholics and many others enjoy "special positions". It is historically preconditioned reality. It is an impression that American authors of these reports do not understand what they are writing about," he said.
The ambassador pointed out that Moscow does not try to interfere in confessional sphere of other states, unlike Washington, which, according to him, "more than once settled its geopolitical tasks without considering existing norms of world order, playing "a religious card" in various regions and provoking "interconfessional tensions."
I consider Russia to be more of a Christian country than the US.
“...I consider Russia to be more of a Christian country than the US...”
You’re not alone in that assessment.
Then again, it wouldn’t take much to meet that criteria these days.
If Russia sent an army to the US, I’d welcome them as liberators.
THIS administration accusing another country of abusing freedom of religion is rich.
It’s like Hitler accusing another country of antisemitism.
That’s the pot (Biden) calling the kettle black.
Biden has been the worst U.S. president when it comes to supporting religious liberty.
Bidet is a demented old fool. That's bad, but in contrast Putin's political enemies seem to die mysteriously - Christians don't go around poisoning the head of the Ukraine.
In Russia they'd be flying the rainbow flag over the Kremlin and streaming Breakback Mountain on RT if Putin thought he would be more powerful with an LGBT-friendly set of policies. He is a snake, a murderous POS with the Cross in his hand and the devil in his heart.
Meanwhile , here in America, if you won't make cakes for Gay weddings it's off to the Gulag with you!
Russia bans evangelizing outside of church, which has gotten quite a few Mormons there tossed into jail or deported. Russia also bans a couple religions like Jehovah Witnesses and Scientology.
Putin speakiñg about his Baptism
https://youtu.be/JEyQas_WgLY
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