Posted on 01/20/2023 6:49:51 PM PST by marshmallow
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill celebrated the feast of Theophany in the Epiphany Cathedral in Moscow on Thursday, where he offered a rather stark warning in his homily: “Any desire to destroy Russia will mean the end of the world.”
Beginning his homily for the feast, the Russian primate emphasized that the meaning of the feast is that the grace of God appeared not just for the Jews, not just for the Apostles, but for all men, as St. Paul says (cf. Tit. 2:11),” reports Patriarchia.ru.
The words of God are immortal, he continued, as evidenced by the fact that the Orthodox faithful continue to celebrate the same feasts and offer the same prayers, year after year, century after century. “His preaching has no end; the power of grace will never be cut off,” Pat. Kirill preached.
When we celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Jordan during the Lord’s Baptism, we remember that the Lord is always with us through His grace, without which the world would have ceased to exist long ago, he continued.
And turning to current events, His Holiness continued:
Today we know that there are very big threats to the world, to our country, and to the entire human race, because some crazy people had the idea that a great Russian power with powerful weapons, populated by very strong people who from generation to generation have always been motivated to win, who have never surrendered to any enemy, who always emerged victorious—that they can either be defeated in the current conditions, or, as they say now, be reformatted, that is, impose certain “values” on them, which can’t be called values, so they would be like everyone else and obey those who have the power to control most of the world.
This desire to........
(Excerpt) Read more at orthochristian.com ...
Problem is, if Poland gets back the lands in the East, the Germans will start going, “Hey what about Danzig and Breslau?”
Right, because if your nation can't achieve its foreign policy goals by naked aggression against its neighbor, it has every right to murder 100 million people in an afternoon and pat itself on the back for doing its Christian duty. It's right there in the New Testament ... somewhere ... /s/s/s
Yeah, we differ so much on this that it’s too much to debate in this forum. I’m a protestant and there is nothing in the Bible about Israel relevance to end time prophecy. No Protestant Reformers ever taught this new covenant pre trip rapture stuff. And I don’t buy it either.
But you are probably a good Christian. God bless you.
You are wrong about so many things but here is the partition
https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2022/11/04/planning-the-partition-of-ukraine
Of course Hungary wants to save their strip before Ukraine kills them all.
And I guess Romania is in on this also.
But the division shows that most of Ukraine will go to Poland.
Not 80% to Russia.
The rest of your post is similar garbage. I don’t have time today and you don’t seem sharp enough to be worth my time.
Yeah, I know, but you made a sweeping statement about a couple hundred million Americans, that includes most conservatives: “the people who hate Russia do so because of the anti-Russian rhetoric in our media.” In one sentence you managed to commit all four of the greatest sins that make reasonable discussions on the internet next to impossible:
1) Presumed motivation or simplistic reasons for other people’s thoughts...
2) ... resulting in an Absurd ad hominem ...
3) ... and a Sweeping generalizations ...
4) ... with an utter lack of historical context.
Violation of Godwin’s law is the other of the top 5, but I’m not giving you a pass on that, because comparisons to Hitler are actually perfectly valid here.
Its great you are able to be so honest.
You are a fascist btw.
And maybe residing in the wrong country - so far we still have freedom of speech.
https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/geopolitics/us-may-help-ukraine-launch-an-offensive-on-crimea/
“If however Ukraine goes on to try to reconquer Crimea, which the overwhelming majority of Russians regard as simply Russian territory, the chances of an escalation to nuclear war become extremely high.
Decamp writes that “The lessening concern about Putin resorting to nukes appears to be based only on the fact that he hasn’t used any up to this point.” But this is as logical as believing that it is safe and wise to jump even harder on the sleeping bear you’ve been jumping on just because the bear hasn’t woken up yet.
The assumption that because a disaster has not happened in the past it will not happen in the future is a type of fallacious reasoning known as normalcy bias. The assumption that because a disaster has not happened in the past it will not happen in the future, even though you keep doing things to make it increasingly likely, is just being a fucking idiot. It’s like Wile E Coyote jumping up and down on the land mine until it explodes because it didn’t explode when the Roadrunner ran over it.
https://dnyuz.com/2023/01/18/u-s-warms-to-helping-ukraine-target-crimea/
“The new thinking on Crimea — annexed illegally by Russia in 2014 — shows how far Biden administration officials have come from the start of the war, when they were wary of even acknowledging publicly that the United States was providing Stinger anti-aircraft missiles for Ukrainian troops.
But over the course of the conflict, the United States and its NATO allies have been steadily loosening the handcuffs they put on themselves, moving from providing Javelins and Stingers to advanced missile systems, Patriot air defense systems, armored fighting vehicles and even some Western tanks to give Ukraine the capacity to strike against Russia’s onslaught.
Now, the Biden administration is considering what would be one of its boldest moves yet, helping Ukraine to attack the peninsula that President Vladimir V. Putin views as an integral part of his quest to restore past Russian glory.”
I am whipping through my remaining bucket list items at a much faster speed these days.
I think an attack on Crimea will be the final countdown item.
At Munich, Zelensky suggested we supply them. And there were no negative replies.
And she wants us to be visited by either the FBI or a lynch mob. Either is fine, she says in another post.
She is young with not much education.
If ever there were a case for education beyond HS, she is it.
Hatred is going to destroy her. And a few others here.
It is very hard on the body.
Exactly.
I've read that Russia considers Crimea where Christianity was born for greater Russia, and based on the growing Christian Nationalism going on there, it's not something they're likely to give up easily, if at all.
Also no nukes.
If in the unlikely event Russia goes to war against the United States your posting history will surely attract attention.
Like it or not you know it’s true.
Fascism is primarily an economic system in the socialist spectrum. I’m more of a libertarian constitutionalist who prefers free market economics.
You are amusing. We are already at war.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I am not the least bit concerned. When they arrest Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Steven Seagal, JD Vance, Oliver Stone, Mickey Rourke, Candace Owens, Senator Josh Hawley, and countless conservative radio commentators and writers - get back to me.
I keep asking myself if I was this stupid at your age.
Not that we know of. Or just not yet.
Patience.
Go back to school. Most community colleges will accept poor grades. Use your brain for more than changing diapers.
I’m smart enough to smoke you out as the turncoat you are.
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