These are the same church leaders who think it’s OK for their troops to rape and pillage.
These people are barely out of the Middle Ages.
Socialists pretending to be capitalists shouldn’t throw stones.
The point is well made . America is fallen .
Word is that Krill is and has Ben a KGB operative for decades, which is the trade off the Russian Orthodox Church made with their communists leaders.
Sounds as if Moscow still thinks it is “THE THIRD ROME”.
Remember when Russia was an atheist nation and the USA was a Christian nation???
The Russian Orthodox Church’s message might carry more weight if they didn’t uncritically support a tyrant like Putin.
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I just saw a picture of an old Stuckey’s that was converted into a church, so there is that.
Christians need to avoid despair like the plague. I am not a Protestant any more, but this old Protestant hymn always speaks to me:
And though this world, with devils filled,
should threaten to undo us,
we will not fear, for God has willed
his truth to triumph through us.
The prince of darkness grim,
we tremble not for him;
his rage we can endure,
for lo! his doom is sure;
one little word shall fell him.
That Word above all earthly powers
—no thanks to them— abideth;
the Spirit and the gifts are ours
through him who with us sideth.
Let goods and kindred go,
this mortal life also;
the body they may kill:
God’s truth abideth still;
his kingdom is forever!
Long story short, God wins and so do the faithful.
I have known many Christians who emerged from the darkness of communist persecution. Albania shut down all houses of worship and all public expression of religion for 35 years. Not too many years after the communists fell, I met a young woman who had come here to work as an au pair. She knew all of the hymns and prayers of the Divine Liturgy by heart. I know other Albanians, along with Russians and Serbs, who are seriously devout Christians. And I will never forget seeing the performance of Rachmaninoff’s music for Vespers in Moscow in the last days of the Soviet Union. The work was thought to be lost, until the score was found in some library in Maine. An American choir performed it, and when they came to “Our Father” — all of the audience, young and old, including Red Army soldiers, sang along.
I spent a couple of hours this morning at a beautiful Eastern Rite Catholic Church that has a wonderful young priest and a great group of people. God is worshipped there. He is among us. Nothing is lost unless we lose it.
Head of Russian Church Warns: It is Ominous that Godless Western Society is Disposing of Churches
And replacing them with mosques
Reading all posts with interest.
Ukrainiacs - another keyword to explore.
Kirill is a war criminal.