Posted on 10/25/2022 6:29:52 PM PDT by marshmallow
The head of the Russian Church, Patriarch Kirill, made some interesting comments about Putin over the weekend, which reflect how many in Russia see him, and which partially explain his popularity, especially among the Christian faithful. Kirill's comments were contained in birthday congratulations published on the Patriarch's website (Russian text, see below for translation) over the weekend.
Birthday wishes have a completely different cultural significance in Russia than they do in the West, with Russians attributing great importance and politeness to them. This is in part a legacy of the communist era, when there was a paucity of holidays which had significant personal meaning to people due to the banning of Christian holidays.
For example a person's 'angel day' or 'saint's day', i.e. the day the church commemorates the saint for which the person was named in baptism, was very important in Tsarist Russia, more important than their birthday. Incidentally, this custom is being revived in Russia, with devout Christians again preferring saint's day celebrations over birthdays. When this Christian custom was banished by the communists, the emphasis migrated to birthdays.
This tradition extends to public figures, who are endlessly publishing birthday greetings to each other in a way that Westerners often find at best quaint, and at worst, excessive.
We explain all this because many a Western reader might see something cloying and obsequious in these official Russian birthday wishes, especially when directed at a national leader, smacking of a cult of personality, but in Russia they are not seen that way at all, rather as opportunities to say something meaningful, sincere, and important about another person. Putin turned 70 over the weekend, and it was a major news events, with birthday wishes filling the news. Many Russians were surprised he was that old, as he acts and.......
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Gotta love a country that claims to be “Christian” when it has the highest abortion rate in the world.
Please post the recent stats, with at least one solid reference citation.
So far this year, Russian “Orcs” have been accused of gang raping infants, etc etc.
The Ukraine war fever is at “Huns bayonetting babies” WW1 levels, so pardon me if I don’t just take your word for it.
When the Berlin Wall fell, we found out about the Russian Orthodox priests who were martyred by the communists. I felt ashamed to not know this had to have been the case. Now, in return for state support, the Russian Orthodox Church justifies the invasion of Ukraine.
Remember divorce, ya know, that mortal sin? Putin is cool with that sin. Yeah, a real bastion of morality.
He'd stream Brokeback Mountain and fly the rainbow flag above the Kremlin if he though the left would bring him more power and cash.
He has the Cross in his hand and the devil in his heart. We got his number. If he doesn't repent, I hope he enjoys the lake of fire.
Anna Politkovskaya
Boris Nemtsov
Viktor Yushchenko (still here)
Putin is why Russia still has abortions.
Satan put Obozo and Bidet in charge over here.
Still way behind the Clinton Hit List.
That’s like saying Pol Pot was a piker vs Stalin.
Hitler had church supporters as well.
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
Rom 13
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statement because it’s basically a manifesto declaring Progressive Holy War against Russia by way of Ukraine. I honestly think they’d be OK getting incinerated in a nuclear holocaust if it meant staying true to this ideological “struggle”
that is now 12 abortions per year per 1000 women
in contrast the USA rate is 11.4 abortions per year per 1000 women. And rather the USA has a larger number of births per 1000 women per year. Russia is aborting more babies than birthing
The Russian Orthodox Church is to Putin what radicalized Islamic clerics and their mosques were to ISIS. ( Kirill = Anjem Choudary)
Putin, Biden,and Zelinsky: all idiots.
They need to look at Ezekiel 38. God could be putting in the hook in the jaw of Russia pretty soon.
Kirill is a whore, bought and paid for by Putin.
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