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........
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Sarcasm?
Kirill should face a firing squad right next to Putin.
Russia is still run by a leadership caste descended from the apparatchiks of the Soviet Union. Putin is example #1.
He and his system seems determined to restore the old empire.
Probably for the same reason you aren’t in DC... lol
The US officially wants Russia to beat a retreat back to 1994-2011 borders.
Russia feels the need to secure the continued existence of pro-Russian areas in what Ukrainians regard as Ukraine, hence the conflict.
Russians in the conflict area feel they have gotten shafted by Ukraine and want to use Russian language in their economic, political and legal life just as in the old USSR.
Asking a Russian to use Ukrainian is somewhat like asking an Italian to use Spanish.
Who would Jesus rape and kill for Putin?
Where are the nukes on Russia's border with Ukraine from?
“They are...ready to die.”
Then by all means let’s oblige them!
Wrong.
There has long been a desire to destroy Russia. Start with Ziggy and his chess game.
Russia doesn’t want western Ukraine. Just the east and over to Odessa. Its already mostly ethnic Russian. The Ukrainians would just continue killing them, along with the Roma and Hungarians for not being pure Ukrainian.
Putin offered the western areas to Poland and it is an idea some Poles appear to like. He absolutely doesn’t want to deal with western Ukrainian pure blood freaks.
The USSR died thirty years ago? Really?
Then why does the red star still adorn every Soviet aircraft?
Why is the red banner the battle flag of the Red Army?
Why did Putin call it the Red Army?
Why is the hammer and sickle displayed on NEW government buildings?
Why did Putin bring back the Soviet anthem?
Hmmm?
First they will nuke us. So also you should be ready to die.
You missed the context?
“Anyone who thinks Ukraine is winning this war is sadly very mistaken”
Ukraine has the manpower to more than match what Putin can politically muster.
American weapons are generally superior to Russian weapons.
However, Russia believes in lots of pretty good weapons while the US now leans towards a smaller amount of very good weapons.
Russia knows its weapons need improvement and is probably working hard to do so.
Russia has a massive ability to use the fossil fuels Europe doesn’t want to buy to make explosives.
“Russia: You will not globohomo us.”
That part I can respect.
Russia will cease to exist.
And if there’s a war then you and every other Putin puffer will be due a visit from the FBI or a lynch mob. Either will be fine by me.
“You sure have a hard on for Russia”.
Well, you must have a hard on for Klaus Schwab and his WEB.
Those areas overwhelmingly voted for Zelensky, both in round 1 and round 2 of the 2019 elections.
I have to ask where the are the loyalties of these people?
They never understand when you remind them this is America, not Russia.
Some nonsense about we have to let Russia put nukes in Mexico.
I guess we should have let Japan invade Hawaii because we were invading Okinawa. In fact one of them argued yesterday we shouldn’t have nuked Japan because it wasn’t an existential threat!
These folks are straight up disloyal to America.
The Ukraine on the other hand?
You got a point? You think that’s an answer to people who favor Russia over their own country?
No one was discussing K Schwab or the WEF. they didn’t invade Russia and Russia didn’t invade them.
But since we have leftists everywhere, I guess you’re stupid enough to favor Russia attacking everywhere, including the United States of America.
I have a hard-on for Poland. They have been the purest participants in all this, and doing so they have shamed many of the recalcitrants to understand their duties. They also saw this coming, and prepared. Both virtuous and wise.
The Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, and above all the Ukrainian soldiery, have the moral high ground.
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