Bullshit. The Russian Orthodox Church is on board with whatever Putin wants. Church attendance in Russia is even lower than here in America. The conflict in Ukraine is down to Putin’s ambitions and Russian ultra-nationalism. Framing it as a religous or moral battle is for Russian nationalists and international socialists.
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All Russia has is a theatrical, ceremonial state church with plenty of pomp and circumstance to reinforce a godless power structure.
I’m not aware of any time when actual Christianity permeated the Russian people and Russia, and surely not the KGB man Putin who now runs the country with an iron fist.
I notice that suddenly the Russian Orthodox church is heralded as Christianity’s true church and discussions of the state church’s treatment of Russian Protestant Christians, and discussions of we Evangelicals and Christians in America have all disappeared.
Evidently, all of us American Evangelicals and Christians no longer exist to the people who have embraced Putinism and his Russia.
Correct. Though I think church MEMBERSHIP in Russia is very high, maybe almost a super majority of the population identifying as members of the Russian Orthodox Church, only 7% actually attend church monthly.
Orthodoxy, as a rule, is cultural and national, not spiritual and actual. It’s like people in Mexico automatically saying they’re Catholic but Mexico still sucks with rape, prostitution, drugs, corruption, etc., with the exception that larger numbers of Mexicans attend church and go through the motions of their religion while Russians don’t bother.